Zen 2 will have a 16% higher ipc than the original design

AMD's Zen architecture has given the company a very competitive position in the PC processor market. This innovative design has had an incremental update in the form of Zen +, which saw the implementation of an improved 12nm process and an improved Precision Bost algorithm, along with improvements to the cache subsystem. The next step will be Zen 2, a more important evolution that will come not only to add improvements at the IPC level, but it will also be possible to increase the core count thanks to the move to a 7nm manufacturing process of TSMC

AMD Zen 2 improves CPI significantly

Now new about Zen 2 has emerged that claims AMD is making significant IPC gains.

According to an Italian tech publication, we could expect Zen 2 IPC gains of the order of 13% over Zen +, which in turn reported gains of 2-5% over the original Zen. It is also noted that these IPC gains were tested in scientific tasks, and not in games. AMD is expected to make its Zen 2 debut with its second-generation EPYC business processors by the end of the year, based on the 7nm manufacturing process.

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This approximately 16% IPC gain compared to the original Zen, paired with taller clocks and possibly more cores, could complete the value proposition of the second generation of EPYC. Zen 2-based customer segment products would arrive in the second half of 2019.

The higher IPC and the higher clock frequency could make us see gains of the order of 20% or even more in the single-threaded performance of the Zen 2 processors, something that would seriously put an Intel with many problems to drop below 14 nm +++. Tri-Gate.

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