{"id":101598,"date":"2016-08-19T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T05:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101598"},"modified":"2016-08-19T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T05:53:13","slug":"amd-zen-cpu-details-revealed-faster-than-intel-broadwell-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/101598-amd-zen-cpu-details-revealed-faster-than-intel-broadwell-e","title":{"rendered":"AMD Zen CPU details revealed – faster than Intel Broadwell-E"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD recently held a small event <\/a><\/strong>in San Francisco to finally reveal the technology behind its upcoming Zen CPUs.<\/p>\n

The cards will be aimed directly at the high-end market and will compete\u00a0directly against Intel’s most powerful processors.<\/p>\n

AMD has stated<\/a><\/strong> that its 8-core Summit Ridge CPU outperforms Intel’s Broadwell-E Core i7-6900K, citing a multi-threaded Blender rendering\u00a0performance comparison.<\/p>\n

It’s built from the ground up with a focus on “performance, throughput and efficiency,” said AMD CTO Mark Papermaster.<\/p>\n

Using a 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, AMD’s engineers have increased the chip’s IPC (instructions per cycle) by 40% compared to their last-gen hardware, also increasing power efficiency.<\/p>\n

AMD has also finally implemented Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), which lets Zen’s cores run multiple threads at the same time (basically, its own version of Intel’s HyperThreading).<\/p>\n

“We have to be faster, we have to be more agile, we have to be more creative, because we’re the smallest player,” Papermaster said.<\/p>\n

Digging a bit deeper into the technical details, AMD says it increased Zen’s instruction scheduler by 1.75x and execution resources by 1.5x, added an 8MB L3 cache, and also implemented a larger shared L2 cache.<\/p>\n

Altogether, Zen should push around five times the amount of bandwidth to its core than AMD’s previous Excavator design.<\/p>\n

AMD’s new Zen CPUs will available early next year for desktop computers with Zen laptops coming later in 2017.<\/p>\n

You can check out the official slides <\/a><\/strong>used in the presentation below:<\/p>\n

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