shikamaru317 said:
That's all we have that's official. There was a report last week though that the 8 core Zen CPU will be twice as fast as the previous FX 8350, fast enough to compete against a high end Intel i7. I'm pretty sure that would mean that Zen would top Intel's latest Skylake CPU's in each price range. Price is expected to be somewhere around $120 for 4 core, $160 for 6 core, and $200 for 8 core I think, but that's just speculation. The rumored 2x increase in performance comes from a mixture of the 40% more instructions per clock that AMD mentioned, as well as AMD's new simultaneous multi-threading technology. |
Well. Considering that Intels Core i7 6950X is anywhere between 3-4x faster than the 8350 in allot of tasks... (And it runs a whole Ghz slower!)
It doesn't really bode well for AMD taking the performance crown and being ultra competitive in the super profitable server/high-end segments.
Should mean "good enough" performance for mainstream users though, like what the Phenom 2 was when it went against Nahelem.
I think AMD will try to sell us more CPU cores at any given price point too, it has been a tactic that has worked extremely well for them, they struck it big with the Athlon 2 x4 at the time with the first Quad-Core CPU under $100.
But what will ultimately be more important for AMD's future is OEM design wins, we need Asus, Acer, HP, Lenovo etc' to pick AMD over intel in their devices... And for that to happen, AMD needs decent marketing.
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