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Guru3D.com » News » AMD ZEN 8-core Summit Ridge To launch January 17th 2017

AMD ZEN 8-core Summit Ridge To launch January 17th 2017

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/20/2016 10:53 AM | source: | 100 comment(s)
AMD ZEN 8-core Summit Ridge To launch January 17th 2017

You should mark that date in your agenda, 17-1-2017 as there now is a very strong indication that the 8-core ZEN processors from AMD is to be launched or available on that date. An AMD China partner called Maxsun shared some detail on the launch., which found its way onto the web.

Before we begin, as always rumors are just that ... rumors and we certainly can't verify this information. However, the indication and partner seems valid. That would mean availability of AMD Zen on January the 17th, which matches up with a CES 2017 announcement (5th of January through the 8th)

Yesterday we already mentioned an indication for Summit Ridge processors (the 8-core ZEN part) pricing, MAXSUN here as well confirms that pricing scheme. The companies SR7 processors (high-end SKUs) in the Zen line-up would sit in the 1500-2000 Yuan segment, and that is $200-$300. 

MAXSUN also kind of confirmed the clock frequency range for AMD's next processors as they are quoting 3.15-3.30 GHz base clocks with 3.5 GHz boost clocks (similar to Intel's most high-end 8 and 10-core SKUs). On top of that they claim the processors can be clocked to 4.2 GHz fairly easily with conventional cooling and up to 5 GHz with LN2. In the posted screenshots they mention that the top-end SKU can compete with the Intel 6850K

Let me end where I began, as always rumors are just that ... rumors. But this one does seem valid. Let's hope that the hype is real.

The initial “Zen” CPU core 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.  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.



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ddelamare
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#5360323 Posted on: 11/18/2016 03:45 PM
The price HAS to be lower than Intel's equivalent and i will be ready to dump a truck load of cash on Day 1 to get the new CPU, board and RAM.

CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

PrMinisterGR
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#5360326 Posted on: 11/18/2016 03:49 PM
I'm very curious about the rumored APUs. 4c/8t 1024 Polaris/Vega cores with 1-4GB HBM.

schmidtbag
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#5360331 Posted on: 11/18/2016 04:12 PM
That's good the release date isn't going to be February (though I'd still like to see the 4c/8t model...). Assuming the rumors are true, I'm a little less hopeful about the performance. That price is very low for an 8c/16t part. Either AMD is begging everyone join them or this performs significantly worse than they expected.

I'm probably going to buy AMD next anyway because I want to see them succeed and I'm sure the performance will be adequate. But if their 8-core is going to be around $300, I'm not sure how they're supposed to profit on some of their dual core chips, assuming they'll even bother to make them.

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#5360339 Posted on: 11/18/2016 04:26 PM
First AMD said Zen beats 8 core i7-6900K in Blender benchmark now just "competes" with 6 core i7-6850K ?? I hope Zen is not the 2017 Bulldozer.

nz3777
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#5360346 Posted on: 11/18/2016 04:32 PM
Well according to the the 8/16 thread will be 200-300 usd? If this is true I will gladly pick one up for that price!

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