A leaked slide has confirmed that AMD's upcoming next-gen Opteron CPUs based on Zen architecture will have up to 32 physical cores and support for 8-channel DDR4 memory.

While it was rumored earlier, the latest slide leaked by CERN Computer Engineer and spotted by Tweaktown.com, confirms that AMD's next-generation Opteron CPUs based on 14nm FinFET Zen architecture will indeed feature up to 32 physical cores with Symmetrical Multi Threading (SMT).

The same slide also confirms that Zen architecture is expected to bring a 40 percent improvements for Instruction Per Clock (IPC) performance compared to current generation as well as have support for 8-channel DDR4 memory and PCI-Express gen 3.0.

Due to the fact that AMD will come up with a 32-core Opteron CPU, it means that the company can scale it down to 8-core, 16-core or even 24-core CPU so it is pretty sure that we will see an octa-core FX-series consumer CPU but we would not be surprised if AMD also goes for a higher CPU core count as well.




Source: Tweaktown.com.