Amd zen will arrive with 8 cores and 16 threads for $ 300

AMD has had a long streak in the PC processor market, its last high-performance CPUs were the FX Vishera that arrived in 2012 and since then Sunnyvale's have focused solely on the development of their APUs, processors with integrated graphics very capable. AMD Zen is the last card they have and it seems they want to take advantage of it with very aggressive prices, the top-of-the-range AMD Zen processor would arrive with 8 cores and 16 threads for an approximate price of $ 300.

AMD Zen Summit Ridge lives up to the Core i7 6850K for $ 300?

The AMD Zen architecture will give life to the new Summit Ridge processors, which promise to offer a great improvement compared to the current FX, such would be the improvement that AMD promises that its new processors will be able to fight from you to you with the almighty Intel, although This will have to wait to see if it is true or it remains in a more unfulfilled promise.

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The most powerful AMD Zen processor, at least in the initial launch, will be a chip with a total of 8 cores and 16 processing threads, a configuration very similar to that offered by the Intel Core i7 6850K with which AMD itself already has it. has compared to come out very well. The aim is for this new top-of-the-range processor from AMD to come onto the market with an approximate price of $ 300, something that would be spectacular if it is finally true that Zen can fight with Intel core to core and Mhz to Mhz.

Currently AMD Zen is able to reach operating frequencies under air of 4.2 GHz and more than 5 GHz with liquid nitrogen, this data is very remarkable in an eight-core processor.

Source: tweaktown