AMD presents their new Zen Summit Ridge CPU for 2017 (Photo : YouTube / Paul's Hardware)
AMD has just recently unveiled their new Zen CPU chips that will be taking on the Intel Core processors in early 2017 both in the consumer-grade and the server data center markets.
The company announced their new Zen processor lineup in San Francisco near Intel's Developer Forum. AMD'z Zen processors are built using the company's new 14nm FinFET method which is the same one used in making the Polaris GPU that powers the Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 video cards that were recently released.
AMD coasts that the Zen's IPC (instructions per cycle) is increased up to 40 percent compared to the previous generation, Engadget has learned. This makes the new AMD Zen processors more efficient in terms of power consumption in the long run.
There are also loads of new features that make the AMD Zen chips a good competitor to Intel's processors such as the new Simultaneous Multithreading technology which is synonymous to the latter's HyperThreading feature. An 8MB L3 cache is also included as well as a bigger shared L2 cache for the instructions.
For servers, AMD has unveiled the new Zen chip for data centers. AMD's new Naples is a 32-core Zen CPU which the SMT tech which puts it at 64 threads for each processor totaling up to 128 for a dual socket system setup, Anandtech reported.
AMD will unveil more about the Zen server CPU and motherboards at the upcoming SuperComputing conference in November 2016. The company expects to supply the Zen CPU to servers starting in the second quarter of 2017.
Zen CPUs will be better at handling power consumption and it could translate to better battery life on laptops. 4K video and gaming will also be better compared to its predecessors and it could probably be on par as the latest Intel CPUs as well.
The AMD Zen Summit Ridge will be the first consumer-grade processor that will be launched in 2017. Summit Ridge will be an octa-core 16-thread desktop chip that supports DDR4 RAM and will run on the company's new AMD4 platform for supported motherboards in the near future.
