Amd Zen continues to improve its performance

After several quiet weeks we finally have new information about the new AMD Summit Ridge processors based on the AMD Zen microarchitecture. Data on two new eight and four-core processors have been leaked, allowing us to see very interesting information. AMD Zen is on a mission to return Sunnyvale's to the high-performance processor market.

AMD Zen is taking color ahead of its launch

First of all we have an eight core and 16 thread processor which corresponds to revision A0. This processor would be the new top of the range that AMD used in a comparative rendering in Blender against an Intel Broadwell-E 8-core. In that comparison, the AMD processor worked at a frequency of 3, 000 MHz, while now in its base mode it works at 3, 150 MHz, which amounts to 3, 300 MHz and 3, 600 MHz in its two turbo states, in the first case with half the cores and in the second case with a single core. This new processor has a TDP of only 95W so AMD has achieved excellent energy efficiency in its most powerful processors.

The second processor is an 8-core quad-core chip that features a low 65W TDP. Its features include a base frequency of 2, 900 MHz that goes up to 3, 100 MHz and 3, 400 MHz in its two turbo states.

The first Summit Ridge processors are expected to hit the market in February to offer users a high-performance alternative to Intel Core processors that have been unrivaled in recent years. Summit Ridge will use the new AM4 socket that it will share with the advanced Raven Ridge APUs and is the premiere of AMD with DDR4 memory.

Source: eteknix