Amd zen near the performance of intel broadwell

In the last few hours AMD has given very juicy details about its new Zen processors, which they say stand up to Intel's Broadwell-E with the same number of cores and frequencies.

We had the first benchmarks of one of the Zen processors a few days ago, where it was already obtaining results close to an i7 4790 of the Haswell architecture, but during an official event held in San Francisco, AMD has shown that the new Zen processors are up to date. height of Broadwell-E architecture.

Single-core performance (IPC) improvements

Firstly AMD highlights the evolution of this new architecture, with higher IPC performance (40% + than Excavator architecture) and less energy consumption thanks to a 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, which achieves a TDP of 95W with 8 cores and 16 threads. This last aspect is very important because AMD compares this processor with an i7-6900K (Boradowell-E) that has a TDP of 140W.

The IPC performance would be the biggest leap from one architecture to another that is remembered and AMD assures that Zen represents the most important launch of the company in the last 10 years in this field.

New technology Simultaneous Multi-Threading

The Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) technology comes to replace the 'Clustered Multi-threading' (CMT) technology that was first introduced in Bulldozer. SMT is one of the keys to why this architecture will make a qualitative leap in performance compared to current FX processors. With Simultaneous Multi-Threading technology each Zen core will be able to run two threads simultaneously. The difference with CMT introduced in Bulldozer is that it could execute two threads that were identical, with SMT two threads per core could be executed but totally independent.

New low-latency, three-tier cache utilization is also highlighted along with new preload algorithms that reduce the number of cache errors and offer greater bandwidth. The L3 cache will be 8MB in the Zen architecture.

AMD Zen equates to a 1000 euro Broadwell-E i7 6900X

AMD has carried out a demonstration where they make a comparison between an 8-core and 16-wire Zen processor running at 3.0GHz against a processor of the Broadwell-E i7 6900X family operating at the same frequency, a processor that today costs about 1100 euros. The comparison was made with the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and the 3D design application Blender.

AMD makes two things clear about its new processors:

• Zen's IPC (mono-core) performance is better than or equivalent to an Intel Broadwell-E. Zen processors are claimed to be able to scale above 3.0GHz.

The new AM4 socket

Finally, the red company has commented on the new AM4 platform that can now contain these new processors and low-power APUs, the following is confirmed:

• Memories DDR4PCIe Gen 3USB 3.1 Gen2 10GbpsNVM ExpressSATA Express

The new processors based on the Zen architecture, which are going to compete against the Intel i7, will arrive in stores during the year 2017, this is already confirmed from the official website itself. If you are thinking of renewing your team in the future, you may want to wait a bit because AMD seems to be going back to the big leagues.

WE RECOMMEND AMD disappears from the PassMark table: Intel improves with the update