AMD's 8-core Zen CPU on par with Core i7-5960X

Offers twice the performance of FX-8350

There have been plenty of performance rumors regarding AMD's upcoming Zen-based CPUs but recent slide which came from AMD actually suggest that an 8-core Zen CPU might be on par with Intel's eight-core Core i7-5960X CPU.

AMD has earlier revealed that the Zen-based CPUs will offer 40 percent improvement in instructions per clock (IPC) performance compared to current Excavator-based CPUs but this is actually the first time that AMD provided some performance figures.

According to the new slide, AMD's Zen-based Summit Ridge CPU will offer twice the performance of Piledriver-based eight-core Orochi CPU, which is the FX-8350.

Since Excavator CPU cores are about 15 percent faster than Piledriver cores, this also means that Zen CPU cores should provide around 60 percent more performance compared to the Piledriver. With this in mind, AMD's Zen-based eight-core should be in direct competition with the Intel eight-core Core i7-5960X.

Spotted earlier, AMD's Summit Ridge CPU die revealed four Zen-based cores, 16MB of L3 cache and a dual-channel dDR4 memory controller. AMD's Zen-based CPUs will also offer new Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) which means that OS will have 16 threads to work with.

AMD's Zen-based Summit Ridge CPUs look impressive on paper but we are still far away from the launch as these are expected sometime in October and will work on AMD's new AM4 socket platform.





Source: 3DCenter.org.

News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini


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