Amd zen mass availability in early 2017

The new Summit Ridge microprocessors based on AMD Zen are one of the most anticipated products in recent years and it is no wonder, Zen is the new high-performance x86 microarchitecture from AMD and its performance is expected to be very high to bring back it marks the fight in the high-end CPU market.

We will have to wait until 2017 to buy a high-end Zen processor

AMD Zen was slated for late 2016 but eventually its mass availability won't take place until early 2017. It is very likely that the launch will take place at the end of the year and that we can see the first samples and the first reviews, but it will be very difficult or impossible to get hold of one until the year 2017 due to " serious problems in the inventory ".

Thus the arrival of Zen will take place at the same time as Intel Kaby Lake, the new chips of the blue giant that will succeed Skylake with a slightly optimized version of the architecture. Possibly the first AMD Zen processors that we see in stores are mid-range or low-end models which could reach the end user in late 2016.

AMD Zen represents a drastic change in the design of the processor compared to the current AMD FX, the new AMD architecture is once again committed to a full-core design to focus strongly on performance per clock cycle or IPC. According to AMD, Summit Ridge processors are capable of twice the performance of an FX 8350.

Summit Ridge will initially arrive with a maximum of eight cores equipped with SMT technology to handle up to 16 threads simultaneously. These chips will offer a TDP of 95W, so the energy efficiency will be really surprising when presenting the same value as the competing quad-core models, we assume that they will come quite relaxed in clock speed (3.2 GHz) although they could present a remarkable capacity. overclock.

Source: TweakTown