By Kevin Lee
Intel already has all giddy about the prospect of new seventh generation processor-powered laptops coming later this fall and now AMD says it’s also on track to deliver desktop-grade Zen processors by next year too.
Literally a block away from the IDF 2016 conference, AMD unveiled the first official details of its next generation processor. Zen is built on a 14nm FinFET architecture that’s not only smaller, but also more power efficient while delivering 40% better performance.
Beyond the core architecture, Zen also introduces a new cache hierarchy, improved branch prediction, and simultaneous multithreading. Altogether these changes make AMD processors ready to tackle a broader range of applications from powering your everyday hybrid laptop to data centers and high-performance computing.
AMD expects Zen will launch first on desktops utilizing the AM4 socket, which will be compatible with motherboards designed for seventh generation A-series CPUs. The new socket will support DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0, 10GBps USB 3.1 gen 2.0, NVMe and SATA express
Codenamed Summit Ridge, AMD showed off an octo-core, 16-threaded desktop processor designed to compete with Intel’s Core i7-6900K Broadwell-E CPU. Both chips were pitted in a Blender benchmark test and Zen CPU the finished rendering a half-second faster – that said, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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