The ryzen 3000 shown at ces 2019 is rumored to be going at 4.6ghz

What was nothing more than a simple preview has left a lot to talk about. From the CES 2019 keynote has come an avalanche of news that will keep us busy until at least the middle of the year. The latter comes around the frequency at which said Ryzen 3000 CPU shown in the preview would be working.

Was the Ryzen 3000 engineering sample displayed at CES going at 4.6GHz?

The information comes from the German medium ComputerBase, which, according to him, has been able to know from various sources that this chip worked around 4.6GHz. The expected IPC improvement in Zen 2 would also be considered, so we could be talking about a jump good enough in a year to think that Ryzen 3000 will go well.

But there are two very big unknowns that are still on the table. The first, assuming the 4.6GHz value is true… would the new CPUs reach this frequency on all cores ? According to Lisa Su, the preview engineering sample was an “early sample”, that is, a sample that still has room for improvement.

The second question is whether the final product will outperform the i9-9900K at Cinebench (comparing 8/16 with 8/16) considering that this program tends to benefit more from AMD's SMT than from Intel's Hyperthreading, so we will remain vigilant. to whatever comes out.

We finish with a chronological review of the main news that we have published regarding the releases of Ryzen 3000 (and more will come):

What do you think about AMD's direction? Do you think your new CPUs will be a success?