Following the releases of its Bristol Ridge-based desktop processors in September 2016, AMD's Zen-based CPUs and its corresponding high-end X370 chipsets will make their arrivals at CES 2017 in January. To achieve a smooth transition, AMD has begun adjusting product prices in order to accelerate inventory digestion. However, since Zen-based products are unlikely to start mass shipments until after February, they are unlikely to start contributing profits until the second quarter 2017, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
So, Zen is Q1 2017, when is Bristol Ridge DYI release? If they paced those two apart a bit, they could get double sales from BR to SR upgrade crowd
but every single Intel option on the medium level has been garbage, no real improvement even 3-4 generation forward
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I'd buy some 8 core, 16 thread cpu that competes with Intel's latest offerings in the mid segment for around 180 euros in an instant. Especially if it dusts Intel offerings in software since it uses more cores than Intel's offerings.
It about time we move away from 4 cores as the standard and into 8 cores as the standard.
I'd be hard pressed to choose between an 8c zen and 6c coffeelake if the latter had +20% ipc (should i be upgrading in 2018)
- Yea 20% better performance, ST performance. I was going with the mental "all other things being equal" state. I recognize we are not mindreaders, thanks. My subtle point was that @20% and between 8c and 6c, id tip towards the hex core.Even if the latter one had ~1GHz higher operating frequency?
However, since Zen-based products are unlikely to start mass shipments until after February, they are unlikely to start contributing profits until the second quarter 2017, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Hope it means that we get benchmarks.
Only if we get benchmarks from neutral reviewers instead from the AMD marketing department this time. To me it doesn't seem likely that there will be Zen available on sale in January.
Yeah. Although I suspect that AMD will work to control the message around Zen and make it clear to reviewers who don't play ball that they may be "accidentally" excluded from getting samples of future products.
Don't be surprised if you see reviewers tap dancing to play up how important multi core performance is for the future/multitasking/etc.
AMD will initially release Zen-based high-performance desktop processors (Summit Ridge), while one for notebooks is scheduled to launch at the end of second-quarter 2017.
I'd be hard pressed to choose between an 8c zen and 6c coffeelake if the latter had +20% ipc (should i be upgrading in 2018)
I wonder what the penalty will be for threads to jump between the 2 clusters on the 8 core Zen that Windows likes to do. We know on consoles that the penalty is quite substantial.
So you... never want to know?I know I look forward to the in-depth AT articles on these subjects .
This would be a nice use case for logical core renaming.I wonder what the penalty will be for threads to jump between the 2 clusters on the 8 core Zen that Windows likes to do. We know on consoles that the penalty is quite substantial.
This would be a nice use case for logical core renaming.