AMD is putting a lot of faith in its upcoming Zen CPU architecture and according to the latest leaked benchmark, showing performance from Engineering Sample (ES) chips, it appears that these might be quite impressive.


Showing a single Ashes of the Singularity benchmark, the chip, marked as 1D2801A2M88E4_32/28_N, which should be an 8-core/16-thread chip, running at 2.8GHz base and 3.2GHz Turbo clock, hits about 58 FPS with RX 480.

Compared to AMD's Piledriver-based FX-8350 or Intel's Core i5-4670K, the chip is quite impressive and although Ashes of the Singularity does not scale beyond 6-cores, it appears that AMD might hit the earlier announced 40%+ IPC gains, reaching levels of Intel's Haswell architecture.

Of course, bear in mind that these are just early benchmarks and show ES chips, so these should be taken with a grain of salt. Also, this is just a single benchmark but it appears that AMD Zen CPU architecture will have something to offer when it comes out later this year.

Hopefully, we will see more benchmarks soon but it appears that AMD will finally provide some competition on the CPU market.








Source: Wccftech.com.