All news on amd ryzen 2700x / 2600x / 2600 and x470 chipset

With the arrival of the new AMD Ryzen 2700X / 2600X / 2600 processors and the X470 chipset, it is time to review the novelties of this platform compared to the first generation of Ryzen. This new generation corresponds to a transition before the arrival of the new Zen + architecture, because the changes are not really many. All the latest in AMD Ryzen 2700X / 2600X / 2600 and X470 chipset.

What's new in second-generation AMD Ryzen

The main improvement of AMD Ryzen 2700X / 2600X / 2600 is the step to a manufacturing process at 12 nm FinFET from Global Foundries, it is a small jump compared to the 14 nm of the first Ryzen, but it offers some quite interesting improvements in performance and energy efficiency. AMD has estimated that the jump to the new manufacturing process enables new processors to be up to 16% faster with the same power consumption, and 11% lower consumption with the same performance.

This manufacturing process at 12 nm FinFET from Global Foundries joins the XFR 2.0 and Precision Boost 2 technologies, the whole set allows AMD to offer operating frequencies up to 300 MHz higher than the previous generation, more MHz means more performance so this is very important.

So far, we can say that AMD has made AMD Ryzen 2700X / 2600X / 2600 processors work at higher frequencies than the first generation chips without increasing power consumption, something that is very important.

But the AMD Ryzen 2700X / 2600X / 2600 improvements do not end there, the company has retouched the memory subsystem to slightly improve the IPC of these new processors, AMD claims that the IPC has increased by 3%. AMD has successfully reduced L1 cache latency by 13%, L2 cache latency by 24%, and L3 cache latency by 16%. We are talking about what was the main weak point of the first Ryzen processors, especially in video games, so it is an important advance, and that it lays a better basis for the development of the Zen 2 architecture that will give life to the Ryzen processors of third generation in 2019.

A new DDR4 controller has also been included , capable of supporting JEDEC DDR4-2933 memories and 3466 MHz memories thanks to AMP profiles. Recall that the Infinity Fabric bus of Zen architecture offers a bandwidth directly proportional to the speed of RAM, so any improvement in this regard is remarkable.

As for the X470 chipset, the main novelty it includes is AMD StorteMI technology, which allows combining SSDs and mechanical hard drives in a single, high-capacity, high-speed pool. This technology can be activated and deactivated at any time at the user's will, it is compatible with both mechanical hard drives such as SATA and NVMe SSDs and even Optane modules, it also allows adding a 2 GB DRAM cache.

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