New AMD Zen CPU details have emerged

[WYP]

New details about AMD's upcoming Zen CPU have emerged, comparing AMD's upcoming flagship to Intel i7 6900K.



Read more on AMD's Zen CPU leaks.

 

[Daiyus]

Seems hopeful. Of course I'll wait until I see some real world applications and reviews from third parties until I truly believe AMD are back in the CPU game.

 

[GrahamC]

Talk is cheap, Ship them even if only to review sites... they can test and maybe we will buy.

 

[Kushiro]

monies

 

[AlienALX]

Choo choooo ! the hype train has been stoked with coal.

 

[WYP]

A quick update on AMD's Zen CPUs after AMD's reveal less than an hour ago.

AMD has today showcased a Zen CPU operating with the same clock/clock performance as Intel's Broadwell-E 6900K in Blender.

Read more on AMD's Zen CPUs.

 

[MSIRawZ]

Promising.

 

[AlienALX]

"it will go into the high end desktop performance market".

$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$

Then I ask, why would I need a 3ghz 8 core CPU when I have a 6 core HT CPU that will do 4.5ghz.

I mean it's awesome and all, but from the sound of it it'll be very expensive.

 

[Kleptobot]

Holy crap, this bodes very well for them in the server market if this holds true. Better IPC and high core count chips, just need to see the price and TDP now. God dammit AMD if there's one thing you can do well its get my hopes up XD

Also we don't know how high these things will clock yet.

 

[g0ggles1994]

There are no brakes on this hype train

 

[RobM]

I said it will be good but didnt think it would be skylake good
Really looking fwd to seeing reviewer benches

 

[AngryGoldfish]

"it will go into the high end desktop performance market".

$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$

Then I ask, why would I need a 3ghz 8 core CPU when I have a 6 core HT CPU that will do 4.5ghz.

I mean it's awesome and all, but from the sound of it it'll be very expensive.

AMD has had decent overclockers in the CPU world for a while now. 5Ghz was often possible on their chips. That's quite hard to achieve even with a 6700K let alone a 6900K, which tops out at around 4.4Ghz. If AMD can release an 8-core CPU on a versatile platform that is as powerful as a 6900K with decent overclocking (4.4Ghz+) for less money than Intel, that's a winner in my books. I'd definitely considering spending more than what I would need to if the price and performance are right. I do hope they have a slightly cut down version, though, that competes with the 5820K and 6850K respectively at a lower price.

 

[Surpuppa]

What is best for games? Cores or speed?

 

[looz]

Plenty of cores but 40% increase in IPC would make it a decent Haswell competitor. Maybe not even that depending on overclockability.

Games which need a beast CPU generally do so because of poor multithreading, so the AMD approach of having more cores achieves almost nothing.

If these overclock well, then we'll finally have some proper competition.

 

[shambles1980]

like i said in the last thread, i dont see anything wrong with the per clock performance. seems like they decided to just make cpu's that work again.

 

[SeekaX]

Let's be reasonable here, AMD tends to promise a bit more than they can deliver. I don't see them closing the gap to intel in one release, so i'm guessing this will compete best in the mid range market. Basically where the FX 8320 was a few years ago.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Let's be reasonable here, AMD tends to promise a bit more than they can deliver. I don't see them closing the gap to intel in one release, so i'm guessing this will compete best in the mid range market. Basically where the FX 8320 was a few years ago.

They have delivered with recent products. In addition this early ES beat Intels closest competitor. They delivered on that. On par with the Broadwell E even though it should be closer to Haswell. That'sore than what they promised

 

[SeekaX]

They have delivered with recent products. In addition this early ES beat Intels closest competitor. They delivered on that. On par with the Broadwell E even though it should be closer to Haswell. That'sore than what they promised

This early sample hasn't done anything before it has been benched by a third party.
'480 CF will beat a 1080', oh wait.
It's an advertisement, they cherrypick results. You should know that.

 

[Mysterae]

With the amount of advertised BS piled around the Fury you could have grown tomatoes on it, I can't help but get a whiff of cabbages this time around.

Hopefully not though, but Intel will just release the hounds of war that they have been gestating since AMD's fall from grace.

 

[NeverBackDown]

This early sample hasn't done anything before it has been benched by a third party.
'480 CF will beat a 1080', oh wait.
It's an advertisement, they cherrypick results. You should know that.

It can beat a 1080. That doesn't mean it always will.
In addition, even if this is the lone result that Zen beats Intels Flagship 8 core, the fact it's this comparable to something more than Haswell would suggest and more than likely fall true, that it'll beat any Haswellchip and probably Skylake too. They promised 40% IPC and have shown it's more than that. Even if cherry picked, it's still giving us more than promised.

I'm not saying it'll be the new king and destroy Intel. Just saying it is impressive even if you say it's cherry picked