I hear much regarding the potential of Zen in comparison to Intel's HEDT procs, but, given AMD's touting of Zen's scalability, can we glean insight into how it will compete in the $100 range against the i3? People have been clamoring for an unlocked 2c/4t. The excitement over the potential to OC via BCLK on the Skylake was huge, the disappointment when Intel reneged on it even larger.
The Kaveri-based Athlon x4 860k and the Carrizo Athlon, the 845, were fine chips under $100, but the limited cache and platform options kinda turned me off. A small Zen proc with one of the new, nicer cooling solutions they're offering on a modern mobo sounds incredibly compelling.
I hear much regarding 8c/16t chips, a lot about potential APUs, but what about that broad middle ground?
Zen is the architecture, not necessarily the name of the processor family. They have mentioned the scalability up and down the chain, indicating that they will indeed populate their entire processor line with the Zen architecture. It's impossible to know how well they will scale until they are in independent tester's hands, but I would imagine they have learned quite a bit from their Jaguar cores and should be able to put together a compelling offering in the sub $100 range.
AMD sell APU's with disabled graphics cores already, as well as a range of 2 module APU's with minimal graphics . That is the ground you are talking about surely?
It WOULD be interesting to see how they perform in floating point intensive benchmarks compare to their Intel counterparts given the architectural differences between the two company's approaches.
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Tucker Smith - Thursday, August 25, 2016 - link
I hear much regarding the potential of Zen in comparison to Intel's HEDT procs, but, given AMD's touting of Zen's scalability, can we glean insight into how it will compete in the $100 range against the i3? People have been clamoring for an unlocked 2c/4t. The excitement over the potential to OC via BCLK on the Skylake was huge, the disappointment when Intel reneged on it even larger.The Kaveri-based Athlon x4 860k and the Carrizo Athlon, the 845, were fine chips under $100, but the limited cache and platform options kinda turned me off. A small Zen proc with one of the new, nicer cooling solutions they're offering on a modern mobo sounds incredibly compelling.
I hear much regarding 8c/16t chips, a lot about potential APUs, but what about that broad middle ground?
iranterres - Thursday, August 25, 2016 - link
Tucker Smith, you made an excellent point. But I think they will launch zen based stuff to compete all across the boardfanofanand - Thursday, August 25, 2016 - link
Zen is the architecture, not necessarily the name of the processor family. They have mentioned the scalability up and down the chain, indicating that they will indeed populate their entire processor line with the Zen architecture. It's impossible to know how well they will scale until they are in independent tester's hands, but I would imagine they have learned quite a bit from their Jaguar cores and should be able to put together a compelling offering in the sub $100 range.Outlander_04 - Thursday, August 25, 2016 - link
AMD sell APU's with disabled graphics cores already, as well as a range of 2 module APU's with minimal graphics .That is the ground you are talking about surely?
alpha754293 - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
It WOULD be interesting to see how they perform in floating point intensive benchmarks compare to their Intel counterparts given the architectural differences between the two company's approaches.tipoo - Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - link
Last table - >2MB/cire