AMD’s next CPU Ryzen, can compete with 6900K

[Crisp]

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AMD’s next CPU is Ryzen, can compete with 6900K, features SenseMI tech

 

AMD kicked off its New Horizon event this evening, giving us our best look at the company’s next flagship desktop processor yet. For starters, the official name for AMD’s next CPU is ‘Ryzen’ but AMD had much more to show off, including some performance demos putting Ryzen up against an Intel Core i7 6900k and new AMD SenseMI Technologies.

 

The 8 core 16 thread Ryzen processor has a base clock of 3.4GHz at a 95W TDP and 20MB of L2+L3 cache. It also exceeds AMD’s goal of a 40 percent instructions per clock improvement over the last generation. Performance was demonstrated in Blender and Handbrake to show how Ryzen stacks up against Intel’s 6900K in rendering and transcoding. Their tests showed Ryzen matching Intel performance in Blender and in Handbrake, AMD’s chip beat out the 6900K in a transcoding test by about 5 seconds. As far as gaming performance goes, most of the tests showed Ryzen matching Intel’s performance in titles like Battlefield 1.

 

There is more to AMD’s new processor than raw performance though, The company has developed what its calling ‘SenseMI’ technology. This new system is baked into the architecture and uses Smart Prefetch and Neural Net Prediction to predict which instructions an application is going to need next so it can be prepared ahead of time. This method allows the CPU to optimise performance on the fly based on an applications needs.

 

Ryzen’s boost clocks will also adjust based on cooling. These CPUs are equipped with a bunch of sensors that monitor thermals and power draw in order to make sure the chip boosts to a higher clock speed based on power and thermal overhead.

 

Obviously, this will all be running on AMD’s new AM4 platform, which we have heard a little bit about before. High-end boards with use the X370 chipset and support modern technologies like PCIe gen 3, M.2 SSDs, DDR4 RAM, USB 3.1, NVMe and more. We haven’t had a good look at any specific models just yet but motherboard makers will begin showcasing their new motherboard designs soon.

 

That just about wraps things up as far as new information goes. We still don’t have a firm release date outside of ‘Q1 2017’ and we don’t have information on pricing so there is still plenty to find out next year as we get closer to launch.

 

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[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

Looks promising, can't wait for the hardware benchmarks.

[Draconian Guppy]

this makes me want to cry! AMD IS BACK!

[xendrome]

Might want to wait for 3rd Party testing. Everytime AMD produces benchmarks of it's own products they are nowhere near real world experience.

[fusi0n]

2 minutes ago, xendrome said:

Might want to wait for 3rd Party testing. Everytime AMD produces benchmarks of it's own products they are nowhere near real world experience.

 

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

[xendrome]

1 hour ago, fusi0n said:

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

The last time I remember AMD with anything that was better, was when they were the first to get to 1Ghz with their SLOT-A CPU.. 1999'ish? You could actually overclock them a bit and they were faster then any Intel offering at the time, short-lived however.

[hagjohn]

My 6300 is getting long in the tooth but it's running just fine. I do plan on upgrading.

[patseguin Global Moderator]

I've been building my system for years and built a few AMD based system. They always seemed to fall short of the performance I got from intel based systems. I'm excited about this though!

[Andre S. Veteran]

1 hour ago, fusi0n said:

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

Source?

[ctebah]

1 hour ago, fusi0n said:

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

RX480?

[spaceelf]

2 minutes ago, Andre S. said:

Source?

It was two 480s in SLI on one game (Ashes,) not much to get excited about unless you really want to nitpick.

 

Zen sounds like it'll be pretty ace, though I'll wait for actual benchmarks to get too excited.

 

 

[Yogurth]

1 hour ago, fusi0n said:

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

RX 480 was never meant to compete with GTX 1080. AMD stated that Polaris was low to mid end chip, the most affordable VR ready GPU, and that the Vega will be their high end response.

[Luc2k]

5 hours ago, fusi0n said:

Remember when the 480 was suppose to match the 1080? 

Can't say that I do, and I've followed Polaris news closely. I don't think even hardcore AMD fanboys speculated something like that. Nvidia fanboys might have said it to discredit AMD though.

 

As for Zen, before this presentation, I was aiming for the lower clocked 8-core as my next upgrade at a rumoured 350$, however, after what they've showed, the 8-core will most likely be out of my range. Not to worried, as the 6-core should be very powerful for games and general use, if the preview performance holds true.

 

Also, a mod might want to merge the two (Ry)ZEN topics.

[Circaflex]

I hope it delivers, we need Intel and AMD to be competing like the 90's and early 2000's. Intel dominates the high-end CPU market and we(consumers) desperately need AMD to give them a run for their money. I hope the hype is real.

[FloatingFatMan]

On 15/12/2016 at 0:10 AM, Circaflex said:

I hope it delivers, we need Intel and AMD to be competing like the 90's and early 2000's. Intel dominates the high-end CPU market and we(consumers) desperately need AMD to give them a run for their money. I hope the hype is real.

^ This. Intel have been getting lazy with no competition from AMD. Here's hoping this finally gives them the foot up the rear they've been needing and bring prices back down for us poor schmoes at the consumer end.