AMD's Ryzen could be the defining processor of 2017

[Becky]

During the first quarter of 2017 AMD will be releasing their latest high-performance desktop processor, named Ryzen. The chip is based on AMD's Zen core architecture, and judging from the information released so far Ryzen looks very promising.

So what's special about Ryzen? A claimed increase of greater than 40 percent in instructions per clock, that's what...

...While all we have are demos to go on at the moment, Ryzen seems pretty impressive, with AMD claiming that a 95-watt TDP Ryzen processor at 3.4 GHz without boost can "match or outperform" a 140-watt TDP Intel Core i7 6900K ran at stock processor speed and boost when it comes to image rendering and video transcoding.

Read the full article at ZDNet, and check out AMD's press release here.

 

[bootneck02]

Look great but out of my price range I am afraid

 

[Ian]

I'm looking forward to having some competition again - remember the days when AMD ruled (briefly!)? Intel has walked it these past few years, for the most part at least.

Things have been pretty boring CPU-wise for quite some time.

 

[Becky]

More details now available...

Starting off with the AMD Ryzen core, we instantly notice that each core has just one integer and FPU section, which is a very important design choice as it differs greatly from AMD’s previous Bulldozer and Piledriver architectures. While this design choice will definitely help improve the product’s single threaded performance and IPC, we should also take note of the “Branch Prediction” section, which will be tasked with identifying what a branch in the code will do before it actually happens. It’s true that these systems can be wrong at times, in which case the CPU performance is pushed back a bit as it needs to clean up after the failed prediction, but these cases are incredibly rare when it comes to good branch predictor, which is likely why AMD has decided to implement one. The company’s solution was dubbed “Neural Net Prediction,” and it is reportedly much better when compared to previous iterations.

http://www.eteknix.com/new-details-about-amds-ryzen-architecture-were-revealed-at-isscc/

 

[muckshifter]

I'll be building a new system this year. (April-ish) I'll be building an AMD.


I hope to make a video of the build

 

[Becky]

Sounds good @muckshifter, looking forward to seeing it