Compares it to an 8-core Broadwell-E
During an even in San Francisco, AMD has provided a bit more details regarding its upcoming Zen CPU architecture as well as show a demo of an 8-core, 16-thread, Summit Ridge desktop CPU and compared it to an 8-core Intel Broadwell-E CPU, both running at the same clocks.
Showing a bit more information regarding the performance, throughput and efficiency of the Zen architecture, AMD has once again talked about a 40 percent improvement in instruction per clock, compared to the previous generation.
In a demo that was based on a multi-thread Blender rendering software, AMD compared its 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge desktop CPU, based on Zen CPU core architecture, to an Intel 8-core, 16-thread, Broadwell-E CPU, both running at the same CPU clock speed. In the same benchmark, AMD Summit Ridge actually outperformed the Broadwell-E counterpart.
In addition to the Summit Ridge CPU, AMD also demonstrated its 32-core, 64-thread, Zen-based server CPU, codename "Naples", which was running in a dual-processor server on Windows Server operating system.
According to Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO and President, Zen architecture is based "on a clean-sheet design and features a new cache hierarchy, improved branch prediction and simultaneous multi-threading (SMT). These advances will allow the "Zen" core to scale to meet the needs of a broad range of applications, including fanless 2-in-1s, embedded systems, high-performance computing, and the datacenter."
AMD's upcoming Summit Ridge CPUs will be using AMD's new upcoming AM4 platform, which will bring DDR4 memory support, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gbps, NVMe and SATA Express. The same AM4 socket will be also compatible with AMD's upcoming 7th generation A-series APUs, codename "Bristol Ridge", which are expected in the second half of this year.
While the performance of the Zen CPU architecture certainly hits the announced levels, and AMD is still keeping the 40% IPC performance increase, we will still wait to see some real-world benchmarks as well as game performance, something that is selling those CPUs, after all.
Hopefully, both the performance as well as the power efficiency will make AMD competitive to Intel once again, as we could certainly use some competition in that part of the market.
Source: AMD.com.
Showing a bit more information regarding the performance, throughput and efficiency of the Zen architecture, AMD has once again talked about a 40 percent improvement in instruction per clock, compared to the previous generation.
In a demo that was based on a multi-thread Blender rendering software, AMD compared its 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge desktop CPU, based on Zen CPU core architecture, to an Intel 8-core, 16-thread, Broadwell-E CPU, both running at the same CPU clock speed. In the same benchmark, AMD Summit Ridge actually outperformed the Broadwell-E counterpart.
In addition to the Summit Ridge CPU, AMD also demonstrated its 32-core, 64-thread, Zen-based server CPU, codename "Naples", which was running in a dual-processor server on Windows Server operating system.
According to Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO and President, Zen architecture is based "on a clean-sheet design and features a new cache hierarchy, improved branch prediction and simultaneous multi-threading (SMT). These advances will allow the "Zen" core to scale to meet the needs of a broad range of applications, including fanless 2-in-1s, embedded systems, high-performance computing, and the datacenter."
AMD's upcoming Summit Ridge CPUs will be using AMD's new upcoming AM4 platform, which will bring DDR4 memory support, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen2 10Gbps, NVMe and SATA Express. The same AM4 socket will be also compatible with AMD's upcoming 7th generation A-series APUs, codename "Bristol Ridge", which are expected in the second half of this year.
While the performance of the Zen CPU architecture certainly hits the announced levels, and AMD is still keeping the 40% IPC performance increase, we will still wait to see some real-world benchmarks as well as game performance, something that is selling those CPUs, after all.
Hopefully, both the performance as well as the power efficiency will make AMD competitive to Intel once again, as we could certainly use some competition in that part of the market.
Source: AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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