Amd Zen Outperforms Broadwell Performance

We have new rumors about the promising high-performance AMD Zen microarchitecture that will come to succeed Bulldozer and Piledriver-based FX. According to the latest rumors, its performance is really promising and AMD Zen exceeds the performance of Intel's Broadwell.

AMD Zen Outperforms Broadwell Performance, Slightly Below Skylake

The new AMD Zen microarchitecture is manufactured in 14nm by Samsung / Global Foundries and represents AMD's return to a full-core design with far superior individual performance than Bulldozer, it will also be AMD's premiere with DDR4 RAM. The first Zen-based AMD Summit Ridge processors would hit the market in October with an eight-core design and a TDP of just 95W thanks to its 14nm manufacturing process. To get an idea, the Intel Core i7 5960X manufactured in 22nm has eight cores and a TDP of 140W, so the new AMD processors will be very efficient with power consumption.

All of the enhancements made to AMD Zen would translate to slightly higher performance per clock cycle (IPC) than Intel Broadwell, though below Skylake, certainly a huge step up from current AMD processors if such an upgrade is confirmed.. This great improvement in the IPC could be taken advantage of together with high operating frequencies and a good overclocking capacity to catch up with the best Intel processors. Added to this is the fact that Zen's design allows creating processors with more than eight cores, so in future reviews we could see 12-core processors or even more.

New APUs with Zen and HBM

Zen will also give life to the new generation of AMD APUs, in this case we would initially have up to four cores along with a powerful integrated GPU that would be based on Polaris and that could have HBM memory to become a new absolute benchmark in terms of performance of integrated graphics processors.

Source: wccftech