By Darren Allan
We’ve just discovered that the successor to AMD’s freshly revealed Ryzen chips is expected to be unleashed in early 2018, and the company has already been talking about the sort of performance gains we can expect to see.
Lisa Su, chief executive of AMD, revealed details of what she called the Zen 2 (codenamed Pinnacle Ridge) and Zen 3 processors – the next-generation, and the one after that – in a Reddit ‘ask me anything’ session.
AMD will be concentrating on boosting up the IPC (instructions per clock) for these upcoming CPUs, and we can apparently expect performance improvements of around 5% to 15% with both incarnations.
Those are fairly modest gains, but that’s only to be expected when it comes to refining Ryzen – which itself was a massive jump in terms of performance (over 50% compared to last-gen AMD processors) because it was built from the ground-up.
Actual real-world gains in terms of frame-rates may well be greater, as well, when you consider further improvements will likely be made in terms of optimization for games (currently Ryzen isn’t performing as well as it could in 1080p for many titles), plus improved compatibility with faster DDR4 RAM, and doubtless other things besides.
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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