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haxxiy on 16 June 2016
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Pemalite said:
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

Yeah, a lot of tasks meaning benchmarks running on AVX2 and pitting 10 FPUs versus 4 FPUs. Obviously when they claim a 2x increase it's not the same throughout every task, otherwise they would have a sky high single thread performance, beyond even Skylake.

We know fairly well where AMD should land in performance should they deliver what they originally promised (around Haswell, but on 14 nm). No need to assume more than that.