AMD ZEN 8-core Summit Ridge available in February 2017

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/12/2016 02:02 PM | source: | 71 comment(s)

As you guys know, the 8-core Summit Ridge processor series from AMD will be the first ZEN based product series released to the desktop consumer market. As it looks right now, Summit Ridge is to be released in February 2017 opposed to the end of 2016.

The initial “Zen” CPU core is stated to deliver more than 40 percent improvement in instructions per clock cycle over the previous generation cores and will come to market first in an 8-core, 16-thread system-on-chip for desktops (=Summit Ridge). The "Summit Ridge" Zen family will feature a unified AM4 socket with its GPU-equipped "Bristol Ridge" APU counterparts, and feature DDR4 support and a an expected 95W TDP. Though unconfirmed we expect each Zen core will have four integer units, two address generation units and four floating point units, and the decoder can decode four instructions per clock cycle. L1 data cache size is 32 KiB and L2 cache size 512 KiB per core. 2 CCUs = 2x8MB (L3) + 8x512KB (L2) = 20MB

In a recent presenation AMD shows Summit Ridge to be faster compared to an octacore-Broadwell-E at the same clock frequency.

AMD has not confirmed this information, however benchlife makes note of this on their website. The reason for the slight delay would be the introduction of a high-end / enthusiast class X370 chipset that would go along with the processor series release. X370 would be housed onto socket AM4 motherboards and will support DDR4 memory as well as all other modern usual suspects like USB 3.1 gen 2, SATA EXpress, M2 support as well as PCI-Express gen 3.0.

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SirDremor
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#5333806 Posted on: 09/12/2016 02:05 PM

Surprised - hell, no!
In anticipation - no!
Bored by hype - yes!

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#5333813 Posted on: 09/12/2016 02:13 PM

Surprised - hell, no!
In anticipation - no!
Bored by hype - yes!

Stay Zen

it will be only in feb.

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#5333823 Posted on: 09/12/2016 02:29 PM

If it does 5Ghz on water, we have a winner

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#5333824 Posted on: 09/12/2016 02:32 PM

I'll be building my next rig around Zen and Vega, not a problem with waiting.

I'd just like to be able to overclock the GPU a bit more this time round.
Not that that's the way the markets going.....quite the opposite.

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#5333832 Posted on: 09/12/2016 03:05 PM

Eagerly awaiting release and reviews. I'm really hoping for success and not disappointment. It doesn't have to beat or even equal Intel's newest to be a success for me. It just has to be a winner in it's price range.

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#5333836 Posted on: 09/12/2016 03:27 PM

I don´t know if i´m the only one but i´m getting tired of waiting for Zen to release. I want to build a new rig and i want to see how good Zen is but i don´t know if i can wait another 5 or 6 months for it...

Just release the damn thing!!!

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#5333837 Posted on: 09/12/2016 03:28 PM

So I am waiting with my build until feb then

Oh ok. Well I'll get the case before that! So I can have something fun lol. I started waiting when skylake released I can do bit more with a solid month said at least.

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#5333844 Posted on: 09/12/2016 03:45 PM

I wish my i7-920 wasn't so VALUE, this CPU is 8yrs old and it's already 2016 but hardly any games (other than the open worlds) tax it that much... Sure it's OC'd, but just via air, but man this CPU is just amazing. I'd like to upgrade to a Zen, but I just don't have a need yet - and with so many console games having low CPU requirements, there isn't a need for a faster CPU.

I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna run this rig into the ground until something fails, because I see no reason to get a new CPU or motherboard at this point: USB 2.0 still suits 99.99 of my needs, and with the addition of SSD's this PC is still a damn good gaming machine! Love to my R9 290X, without it gaming would be impossible

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#5333848 Posted on: 09/12/2016 04:08 PM

If you play any newer games you would see benefit from sandy bridge upwards tbh. So Zen could be great upgrade.

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#5333852 Posted on: 09/12/2016 04:13 PM

i hope it gonna be under 300-350 euros tag.

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#5333853 Posted on: 09/12/2016 04:17 PM

Ugh and I was thinking the end of October was a long wait... I really want to get a new build started, but I don't want to commit to anything because I don't know if Zen will be good enough. My current motherboard is having power draw issues, so I'm getting hard resets more and more often. It's getting kind of irritating.

So just to be clear - the article seems to imply the northbridge will be a separate chip. Is that true?

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#5333876 Posted on: 09/12/2016 05:03 PM

Dont put higher expectations in new Amd cpus.
Its a low level company now,so better to have low level expectations than higher.To not be disapointed.

When they will be ready,then the cpus will be on consumer market.

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#5333878 Posted on: 09/12/2016 05:03 PM

I can't see them doing a separate Northbridge seeing as they already merged it in their APU's a long time ago

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#5333882 Posted on: 09/12/2016 05:14 PM

Oh man, in February people are working hard to make up for the December expenses (by people I mean me) which means that AMD's product target audience are not the value seekers which means the CPU is going to be expensive. How about that for a logic?

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#5333886 Posted on: 09/12/2016 05:24 PM

Dont put higher expectations in new Amd cpus.
Its a low level company now,so better to have low level expectations than higher.To not be disapointed.

When they will be ready,then the cpus will be on consumer market.
I'm not expecting AMD to make something that will outperform Skylake. I am, however, expecting something to have the same performance-per-watt within 10% of Skylake. If I can get that (at a reasonable price) then I'm sold.

At the very least, I hope to see Summit Ridge sold outside of OEM companies. I don't intend to get one, but it'll be interesting to see what motherboards become available. I intend to make an upper-middle-end mini ITX gaming rig. Since this system will be used strictly for gaming, the only things that will take up a lot of space are the CPU cooler and GPU. As long as I can get a mini ITX board that is a modest overclocker, supports surround sound, and 4x SATA ports, I'm good. I don't really care about anything else.

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