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  1. 11-03-2016, 07:23 AM #1
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    [News] AMD 8-core ZEN Packs a Whallop with Multithreaded Performance

    https://www.techpowerup.com/227494/a...ed-performance

    AMD's upcoming 8-core "ZEN" processors pack serious multithreaded performance muscle. The company's design focus on empowering the cores, and getting rid of the shared-resource approach to multi-core chips; appears to have paid of big dividends in multithreaded performance, as tested on the Blender benchmark. An 8-core "ZEN" engineering sample was found to be belting out performance rivaling 10-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 V2 series chips, indicating that AMD appears to have made huge gains in per-core performance over its previous generation chips.

    The Blender benchmark scores of an alleged AMD ZEN "Summit Ridge" engineering sample were posted by Blender benchmark scores aggregator Blenchmark; and unearthed by this redditor. According to these scores, the "ZEN" sample cruches the Blender benchmark render in 69 seconds, the same time it takes for a 10-core Xeon E5-2650 V2 processor. The ZEN chip is also closely trailing Xeon E5-2600 V4 series chips. AMD is expected to launch its first ZEN "Summit Ridge" 8-core processors in early 2017.

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  2. 11-03-2016, 08:10 AM #2
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    this is Naples i believe
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    Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

    I'd love to believe it's true, but (1): I don't trust reddit, and (2): it looks like a mediocre powerpoint/excel graph. If it looked like an official AMD slide I'd be more inclined to be trust the numbers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tbone8ty View Post
    this is Naples i believe
    Given what we saw earlier, this is more likely a desktop part. The 2860 v2 which performed one spot faster is a 2.8 GHz 10C/20T processor. Naples ES results at this point are probably going to be for the 32C/64T part which even at 1.8 GHz I'd expect to perform significantly better than this given the information we have.
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