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it will go into the high-performance desktop enthusiast market you see that the Zen CPU just edged out that broad well II processor in that demo it's a super exciting time the world is heck right now especially if you're a gamer this year we've seen the introduction of nvidia is highly efficient and extremely fast pascal architecture along with AMD is sensible affordable plus 10 and 11 GPUs of course there's still much more to come from AMD on the GPU front though I feel many like myself or even more Palmer for their upcoming Zen CPU architecture the path to Zen has been a long and arduous one mostly down to how badly the FX series fizzled out and Intel's less than aggressive pricing strategy for their enthusiast chips if you want an Intel processor with at least six cause be prepared to pay almost 400 US dollars or 550 ozzie for an older generation has valley 5820k one eight cores well stand up loosen your belt and Bend well what I mean to say is be prepared to spend at least a thousand u.s. or over 1300 Aussie for the privilege things get even worse with Intel's latest generation Broadway Lee processes my 69 50 X review was titled Broadway lady bleeding enthusiast drive so enough said there this is left pretty much everyone banking on Zen to deliver the goods and with IPC claims of 40% greater performance than bulldozer were expecting good things during an event held in San Francisco and he finally provided additional details regarding Zen's architecture along with a few other tidbits the highlight of which was a demonstration of their eight core 16 thread processor codenamed summit ridge outperforming a similarly configured 8 core 16 thread in cell Broadway a processor the processes were compared at identical clock speeds of three gigahertz using the multi-threaded blender rendering software taking on the cry 769 hundred K aim DS CPU was reportedly able to render the scene in about half a second faster than the Intel chip AMD also conducted the first public demonstration of its upcoming 32 cores 64 threads n base server processor codenamed Naples in a dual processor system running the Windows server operating system what makes them so exciting is that it's essentially a new staff for aim D and should allow them to move the disaster that was the FX series this clean-sheet approach is allowed AMD designer new cache hierarchy improved branch prediction as well as upgrade their simultaneous multithreading this in conjunction with multiple architectural advances designed to increase the performance throughput and efficiency should see AMD once again able to take the fight to Intel in fact is that enabled CPUs should be able to fight not only at the high end but also scale down to meet the needs of a broad range of applications including fanless two-in-ones and embedded systems for example adding to what we already know about certain AMD confirmed the desktop versions will utilize a new cache memory hierarchy with 8 megabytes of l3 cache in addition to an improved prefetcher separate low latency l1 instruction and data caches as well the larger unified l2 cache much of the reason named is bulldozer architecture struggled had to do with slow caches of course as many of you might have expected Zen is built on the same 40 nanometer FinFET process as their p'lice GPUs FinFETs are similar to what Intel calls tri-gate or 3d transistors aimday also added that it's improved the instruction scheduler window by 1.75 times then its execution resources by one and a half times all things considered then she provided around 5 times the amount of bandwidth to its core compared to previous designs the only bad news here is that Zen has been delayed until early 2017 though at this point I think that just about everyone a part of the idea of Zen for Christmas expected to launch first the Zen Bay summit ridge desktops will utilize the AMD AM for socket this new socket will unify AMD's platforms that will also support seventh generation AMD a-series desktop processors previously codenamed bristol ridge interestingly while Zen has been pushed back into next year that am4 platform hasn't been the first desktop systems featuring the seventh gen a series ap use on the brand-new am 4 socket is scheduled to ship in the second half of 2016 in OEM pcs the updated am 4 platform is another godsend for AMD fans as well as AMD themselves having been uncompetitive for so long in the CPU space motherboard makers have been less interested in developing new am 3 motherboards with no new chipsets from AMD to support the latest features the platform's become very outdated am4 will change all that I say a m4 and not its accompanying chipsets because there shouldn't be a chipset as such Ridge isn't technically a CPU but rather an SOC system-on-chip this means there's no need for a chipset as most of the functionalities built right into the processor itself that said we could end up seeing something like Intel's platform controller hub for handling certain features technologies such as ddr4 memory PCIe gen3 USB 3 gen 2 nvme storage and SATA Express will all be supported by the processor not only that but dedicated PCIe lanes for cutting-edge USB graphics data and other i/o will be provided by the processor so their aim for platform will not steal lanes from other devices and components wrapping things up we still don't know much about AMD's target clock speeds thermal output pricing and so forth AMD did say however that it plans to provide additional details of next week's hot chips conference so you should have some juicy information they're not too distant future for now though we can pretty well rest on the comfort of knowing that Xen is legit it's no longer just a bunch of claims by AMD the demo proved that summit ridge is the real deal and can take the fight it entails broad welly CPUs yeah I'm tingling inside what do you guys think let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next 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