Preview of amd ryzen 3000: it would reach an even performance to the i9

We had been waiting for the keynote of the president of AMD, Lisa Su, at CES 2019 for some time. Many of us thought that she would take advantage of the official launch of the Ryzen 3000 line of processors for desktop, but we have had to settle for a “preview” of what is coming.

We begin with a presentation in which the CEO of AMD has summarized his 50-year history, with all of the company's milestones over time. They have also talked about the promising future of technology and the world of semiconductors, but what interests us is the new line of 7nm processors.

After the presentation of the Radeon VII, the second generation of graphics, we were in a real expectation to get to know Zen 2. As Steve Jobs would, Lisa Su announced that she had “one more thing” to show us…

Ryzen 3000 at 7nm has not yet been presented, but Lisa Su has given very interesting information…

AMD has previewed what the new CPUs will be, to be announced around the middle of this year,

Similar to how it happened in Ryzen's presentation at the 2016 New Horizon event, Lisa Su has compared an 8 core / 16 wire early sample of Ryzen 3000 to the 8/16 i9 9900K, in this case on Cinebench R15.

They have shown a power consumption of up to 135W in AMD and up to 180W in Intel, and a performance of 2057 of AMD against 2040 of Intel where AMD is seen as a partner to its blue competitor. This is promising since we are talking about AMD standing in this test alongside Intel processors with the same cores and threads, which could indicate an arrival at last to even single-core performance.

Also keep in mind that, as it is an “early sample”, we are not dealing with the final product, which surely implies that what comes out will be even better and will achieve even better yields.

They have also taught us the morphology of the new CPUs, and the expected design of “Chiplet” stands out, with two die where the smallest “die” is the one that contains the cores at 7nm, where we will have up to 8 cores and 16 threads, with another major die that will serve for I / O tasks. We are waiting to know the advantages that this new system will bring to the AMD CPUs.

The announcements end with Ryzen 3000's support for PCIe Gen4, for the first time on a CPU, and full support for the AM4 socket and all of its chipsets, as you'd expect. Nothing to force current users to update their motherboards.

Can it be said that the AdoredTV leak will be fulfilled?

This was how the AMD Ryzen 3000 had been leaked a few weeks ago.

(Update, thanks to users who have commented) The truth is that in the AMD announcement there was no mention of any number of cores greater than 8. However, as we have just indicated in this other news, the arrangement of the CPU chiplets is an indication that another die could be added at 7nm, which would mean reaching 16 cores and 32 threads. So we are left with two main possibilities:

• AMD was not yet showing the top-of-the-range model of Ryzen 3000, so we could reach 16 cores and 32 threads confirming this leak AMD has decided to keep an ace up its sleeve and will not launch more than 8 cores and 16 threads for now, leaving as a future possibility the 16 nuclei.

These are the two scenarios that we see most likely, do not forget to indicate in the comments what you think will happen?

For the band of the clock frequencies, let's take into account that the performance of a stock 2700X is around 1800cb, and that of a 2700X at 4.4GHz is 1960cb. Here, we have obtained yields greater than 2050cb, which would indicate that this 4.4GHz frequency would be exceeded or there would be a significant improvement in the IPC.

The launch of these new CPUs will be around the middle of 2019, and AMD will be giving information about the new generation. We will see how they work in the coming months, but we are deeply excited.