Hardware AMD Zend CPUs 2017

eva2000 · Sep 6, 2016

Looks like AMD Zend cpu processors next year might be giving Intel some competition AMD unveils new details for its next-generation 2017 Zen CPU core | ExtremeTech ? More curious about power consumption though as AMD traditionally have been power hungry, so even if performance is close to Intel, if power draw is more, most web hosts would opt for Intel.

“We are back, and just getting started.” That’s the word from AMD, which dropped some new details in a private press event about its forthcoming Zen architecture. We’ve already had a bit of a preview of what’s to come, thanks to some early benchmark leaks we reported a few weeks ago. AMD is still claiming a 40% improvement in instructions per clock for Zen, but now the company has actually demonstrated the previously announced 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge system — and is showing it outperforming an IntelBroadwell-E processor, at least in certain applications, at the same clock speed.

Zen is built on a 14nm FinFET process and features completely new branch prediction, a new micro-op cache, and a wider instruction window. The company is also focusing on throughput with Zen, with 8MB L3 cache and a new cache memory hierarchy.

During the same event, AMD also demoed its upcoming 32-core, 64-thread Zen server processor, codenamed Naples, running in a dual-CPU config Windows Server, though it didn’t offer any specifics on how it performs.
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AMD Zen benchmarks leak, point to potent performance against Intel, huge gains over Piledriver | ExtremeTech

Now, thanks to some leaked benchmarks and sleuthing at WCCFTech, we’ve got our first glance at how AMD’s Zen engineering samples perform against other hardware in Ashes of the Singularity.

These results should be read with buckets of salt over both shoulders.
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The fact that Zen is pulling ahead of the Core i5-4670K is significant, because it’s the first time we’ve seen an AMD chip leading an Intel CPU in, well, a very long time. The fact that it’s leading while still an engineering sample and running at a relatively low clock speed is also impressive.

And, of course, the fact that it leads the FX-8350 by 1.38x in this test puts it bang on the nose of AMD’s claimed 40% improvement — though we’re comparing against Piledriver, not Carrizo. We’re also comparing at a severe clock speed disadvantage and against prototype hardware.
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