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This is not a Zen chip. I just included it because, well, the original AMD Athlon holds a special place in my heart. It’s also the last time that AMD challenged Intel for the performance crown. Click through to the rest of the Zen slide deck.
AMD’s new Zen CPU architecture has been officially delayed until “early 2017.” The first Zen chips, which will be produced on a 14nm FinFET process, had originally been expected sometime in Q3 or Q4 2016.
At an event in San Francisco, AMD also revealed a few more details of the Zen’s low-level architecture, and in a multithreaded Blender rendering demo showed that an 8-core/16-thread “Summit Ridge” Zen CPU outperformed an 8C/16T Broadwell-E CPU (presumably the Core i7-6900K) at the same clockspeed.
AMD showed off a dual-CPU Windows server setup using the 32-core/64-thread “Naples” enterprise-oriented Zen CPU at the same event, but didn’t provide any kind of performance figures.
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Source: Ars Technica – AMD says Zen CPU will outperform Intel Broadwell-E, delays release to 2017