The 5 great unknowns of amd zen summit ridge

AMD Zen Summit Ridge processors are just around the corner, it is one of the most beloved products in recent years after the fiasco of AMD FX based on the Bulldozer modular microarchitecture. AMD Zen is engineered from the ground up and promises a huge performance and power efficiency upgrade to once again wrestle with the best Intel processors.

Five key points for AMD Zen Summit Ridge

The AMD Zen Summit Ridge processors will be announced in January and the hype is very high after the promise that they will fight with the most powerful Intel processors for the domestic sector, the Core i7 of the LGA 2011 platform. Here we present the five big questions about AMD Zen Summit Ridge

performance

AMD promises that Zen offers 40% more IPC than Excavator, a very high number and that it is infinitely superior to the improvement we are seeing in different generations of Intel processors in the last five years. AMD justifies the huge improvement that chip designers have focused on in recent years on energy efficiency rather than performance, something that will allow Zen to greatly bridge the gap with Intel.

Will PC makers use them?

PC makers are used to the fact that in recent years Intel has been practically the only option when it comes to building high-performance gaming equipment, Intel is still a very safe bet while deciding on the new AMD Zen is a risky move. It is not known which manufacturers are willing to take the risk of basing their new equipment on AMD.

Luckily for AMD there are some manufacturers such as HP and Acer that have already opted for the AMD Bristol Ridge processors and will surely give their support to Zen, in addition the teams with Bristol Ridge will be able to upgrade to Zen.

Energy efficiency

The world wants to go green, and PC and computer system manufacturers are no exception. AMD has had a titanic task with Zen needing a huge improvement in both power and energy efficiency. The company claims that they have achieved their energy efficiency goals thanks to techniques such as repositioning the voltage regulators and reducing the distance traveled by the data. It remains to be seen how the new AMD Zen Summit Ridge processors will actually behave with laptop batteries, one of the best indicators of energy efficiency.

Support for new technologies

New technologies such as Thunderbolt 3 and 3D Xpoint are very promising for the future of the PC, we do not know if AMD will add support for these modern technologies in its new processors and this may be a deciding factor for success or failure.

Will AMD be competitive again?

The great gap between the processors of Intel and AMD in recent years has meant that the first has been done with almost the entire market, AMD has the difficult mission of recovering market share and starting to generate significant economic benefits after many years with losses.

Recall that this has not always been the case, AMD has had its glory days by pioneering the introduction of the first 64-bit processors in 2003 and dual-core processors in 2004, two years that were part of the golden age of a AMD that dominated Intel with its processors. We will see if AMD Zen is a punch on the table by AMD or is one more failure.

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