While Intel is busy hosting the Intel Developer Forum, AMD has decided to reveal more details on the company’s upcoming Zen-based processors at an event in San Francisco.
For a while now, AMD has claimed that the Zen processors has recorded a 40% improvement in instructions per clock as compared to its predecessor. At the event, they’ve decided to prove it through a test.
Using an 8-core, 16-thread “Summit Ridge” desktop processor, AMD pits its own processor against Intel’s 8-core 16-thread “Broadwell-E” processor in a multi-threaded Blender rendering software with both CPUs set to the same clock speed. The result? AMD’s “Summit Ridge” processor is able to edge out the “Broadwell-E” in the test. Besides showcasing the potential performance of Zen, AMD has also conducted the first public demonstration of its upcoming 32-core, 64-thread “Zen”-based server processor, codenamed “Naples,” in a dual processor server running the Windows Server operating system.
As for when the Zen processors will be available, AMD has confirmed that the processors have indeed been pushed back to early 2017. So if you’re looking to get your hands on the Zen processors, you’re going to have to be patient.
Source: Ars Technica
