AMD have released more information about Zen, but the official name is now AMD 'Ryzen' (pronounced as Rye-zen). Their livestream event just finished, so here's a quick overview for you.
They announced that Ryzen 'Summit Ridge' will be on their AM4 platform, which will support DDR4 memory, USB 3.1 v2, NVMe storage and PCIe v3. It will have 8 cores, 16 threads with a base clock of at least 3.4 GHz+ (they may tweak that higher at release). It will boost higher, but they haven't said how high. This is wrapped up in a neat 95W TDP package, so that's not bad at all for what it does.
It's worth noting, that this is their high-end, so their lower end which hasn't really been talked about will differ.
They will come with 'SenseMI', which includes a bunch of thermal and voltage sensors. With this feature, it will apparently be able to adapt the performance based on heat conditions at lower voltages, so if you have a really good cooler for example it can maximise the performance for you. This also includes a smart prefetch and other goodies to help boost performance.
It will be available sometime in Q1 of 2017 for the desktop chips (Q2 for server chips), but hopefully we will see a more solid date soon.
The AMD CEO claims they have hit their goal of 40% improvement over their last generation's IPC (instructions per cycle). This is a massive improvement, and if really true it will put AMD firmly back on the map for a lot of people.
They did three tests against an Intel 3.2GHz 6900K, where the AMD chip came out just about on top, which is pretty impressive. See the linked video in this tweet:
Using Blender, we put Ryzen up against it's biggest competitor, clock for clock, at #NewHorizon. The results speak from themselves. pic.twitter.com/0glPor1jpf
— AMDRyzen (@AMDRyzen) December 13, 2016
I still think it will be more interesting to see real-world benchmarks done by others, so we can remove any marketing speak and just see hard numbers. I am excited to see them though, as Ryzen could really be the game-changer we've been needing.
What do you think, sound good to you?
Quoting: m0nt3Mine :Quoting: Alm888I score 1:14 with my 8320 @ 4.5Quoting: XpanderRyzen had 35 sec
mine:
FX-8320@4,4ghz ~1:23
Mine FX-8320E@3,6GHz ~1:41
AMD-A4-3305M @2.5Ghz, ~9:50 :D
Last edited by OhYash on 15 December 2016 at 8:04 am UTC
Quoting: m0nt3The blender render performance is significantly worse in Windows, I rendered at 2:24 in windows vs 1:14 settings appear to be the same.
we should show something like that for more people, and imagine how fast the demo would have being if it where on linux
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSo... The bulldozer modules are very much alive with another name; instead of modules, now they are called cores...
The FX 8xxx was four cores and eight threads...
And now we have eight cores and sixteen threads with less TDP than the FX8xxx... Good sign! :)
I wonder how many FPU per core we have...
No this is not ture, AMD use SMT architecture for Zen instead of CMT which used for previous generations.
[url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)]Zen (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia[/url]
I hope I can build a new system with Ryzen and Asus Crosshair VI (hopefully!) mobo for the next year.
Last edited by Delayline on 17 December 2016 at 9:07 pm UTC
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