AMD Zen - A First Look. (Photo : YouTube/ Paul's Hardware )
AMD Zen and its upcoming variants are perhaps one of the highly sought processors by tech savvy wanting to depart from Intel. AMD x86 Zen benchmark test was spotted by a Redditor online and it revealed that the upcoming AMD x86 Zen processor will be impressive if it is an eight-core variant, but would ultimately fall short if it is a 16-core variant or higher.
Wccf Tech further added that the processor was listed under "AMD Engineering Sample" which is a notch higher than the Core i7 6900k - the octa-core processor. The benchmark test also presented that the upcoming AMD Zen will likely be on par with the performance of Intel Xeon E5 2680 v2 processor.
While there is still no specific information about the benchmark test revealed online, some experts and gamers alike are saying that AMD's next generation processor would be a threat to Intel's survival. Windows Central does not consider the upcoming Zen processors as mere performance upgrade, but rather AMD's way of fighting back against Intel for survival.
In the previous months, there have been many queries and speculations about the said AMD Zen processor that the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor company will soon release. Windows Central noted some of the most significant frequently asked questions over the past months.
In a technical level, the site somehow presented what is new in the upcoming Zen processor. And such feature will likely include 14nm process, clock gating, faster cache, an L1 cache is now write-back, SMT (simultaneous multithreading), dedicated stack engine, DDR4 support, move elimination and large micro-op cache.
Now with the speculated feature of the upcoming AMD Zen processor, PC users and gamers alike are highly advised to wait for the arrival of Zen processors than deciding to build a new system now. According to most prominent reports online, the Zen processor will likely be released early 2017. And the said AMD processor release will likely affect the pricing of the currently dominant Intel.
Watch here below presentation of potential AMD Zen CPU:
