AMD ZEN Prepared To Crush It’s Competitors
AMD has been at Intel’s heals for a very long time. AMD’s next-generation “Zen” processors core is aiming high to take the PC gaming to the next level, and in the process come out of the shadow of it’s competitor. The Zen processor has a 40 percent improvement over their last generation in performance and efficiency.
AMD states “The new AMD Zen architecture uses a wide execution engine in a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) capable design. “Zen” cores are designed to efficiently use available microarchitectural resources for maximum compute performance. It features a new, low latency, three-tier cache and new pre-fetch algorithms lead to dramatically fewer cache misses and greater bandwidth compared to the previous microarchitecture.”
AMD showcased their Zen processor (Summit Ridge) 8 core and 16 thread vs. Intel’s Core i7 processor (Broadwell-E) both running at 3.0 Ghz. Blender CPU render software was used to test both CPUs. For the end result, both CPU was running neck and neck, but AMD Zen beat out Intel’s Broadwell-E by an edge.
AMD demoed Deus Mankind Divided running at 4k resolution. The gaming rig was powered by AMD’s Fury X GPU flagship alongside with the Zen processor at 3.0 Ghz, and AM4 socket motherboard supporting DDR 4 ram.
The consumer grade AMD Zen is called Summit Ridge, is expected to go hand and hand with AMD’s Vega 10 and Vega 11 GPUs. It is expected to be launched in 2017. As of right now, Nvidia is leading the high-end video cards market with their Pascal GTX 1080, GTX 1070, and the new Titan X. AMD hopes to change that very soon.
