AMD Zen Summit Ridge Die says Hello

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/23/2016 11:30 AM | source: | 58 comment(s)

Over at SemiAccurate they spotted something interesting, it seems to be the AMD Zen Summit Ridge Die as AMD seems to have accidentally outed a rendering of the wafer at its May 12th shareholders meeting.

Summit Ridge is the high-end desktop (HEDT) product that AMD has previously promised to release in Q4 of this year. It’s expected to be the first chip that integrates AMD upcoming Zen CPU architecture. Expectations are high and Summit Ridge may prove to be a make or break product for AMD.

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 95W TDP. While newer roadmaps don't confirm the TDP for desktop products, they suggest a range for low-power mobile products with up to two Zen cores from 5 to 15W and 15 to 35W for performance-oriented mobile products with up to four Zen cores.

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. Two of the floating point units are adders, two are multipliers.

See the wafer shot below ...

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DeskStar
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#5277726 Posted on: 05/23/2016 01:12 PM

I sure hope it is something special when it is all said and done....

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#5277727 Posted on: 05/23/2016 01:18 PM

I sure hope it is something special when it is all said and done....

Same.

The last AMD processor I owned in my main computer was a Clawhammer 3200. I upgrading to it from a Pentium 3. I remember playing UT on it and my framerate like nearly doubled despite the fact I was using the same GPU, an Nvidia 4200. I upgraded to a 9800XT that same year and my performance like doubled again.

Was a good year.

I kind of hope they keep the Zen name for marketing and not just use it as the codename. It's a cool name and I think it's already ingrained into everyone's head.

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#5277734 Posted on: 05/23/2016 01:36 PM

Well it depends, bulldozer was also a good name, untill it showed that it was a very good multi core prosessor, but too poor on single core effeciency.

The first slide is from May 2015, so it's a bit old, if the image is of a zen, then it might or might not be current.

I keep my options open, i do care to some degree about wattage, but if the price is right and performance is as good as Intel's options I'll probably go for a new AMD. So i at least support both companies. Since my laptop and hackintosh are I7's.

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#5277741 Posted on: 05/23/2016 01:41 PM

My last AMD CPU was a X2 4400+. At the time, an AMD Athlon was the clear choice for gaming rigs. It's been 10 years of Intel domination. Hopefully Zen makes things more interesting. If it annihilates Intel CPUs, all the better.

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#5277753 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:17 PM

This is all very interesting. Im doing an overhaul this year. I might end up with AMD all around for my main system. Zen+Polaris sounds so sweet. We'll see...

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#5277754 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:21 PM

Would be lovely to see a little revolution from AMD. An i5/i7 beater would have my money right away.

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#5277760 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:28 PM

I'm really looking forward to Zen, really itching to upgrade to a more modern system capable of supporting upcoming technologies

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#5277765 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:36 PM

My last AMD system was nF4 + Opteron 165 many moons ago. Honestly, the only hope I have for Zen is to put some competitive pressure on Intel, so the prices could drop a bit down. I still have no intention of getting back to the green team, I just expect more sensible offerings from Intel.

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#5277766 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:36 PM

I'm also really looking forward to Zen.

I'm expecting it to have 2x64bit memory controllers/channels per 4 cores, so 4 memory controllers/Channels in total for the 8 core, with 8 and 16 DIMM support for the Server chips.

There's no way they can get away with 8 cores w/HT on two memory controllers/channels, unless they have a HBM LLC (last level cache) just before the system RAM.

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#5277767 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:39 PM

count me in, hoping AMD would be back on track again, pascal, zen, polaris and possibly vega, great year for new hardware >

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#5277772 Posted on: 05/23/2016 02:49 PM

Had an Athlon XP 2700+ and a 3200+ at one point, last pair of AMD CPUs I owned. Here's hoping they get something good out this time around.

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#5277788 Posted on: 05/23/2016 03:02 PM

Have had a couple of good AMD's before I completely switched to Intel in the C2D era, I just go with what performs best, and basically up to C2D AMD was great in the price performance and overclocking arena.

I remember having an Opteron 144, and overclocked it to 3ghz+, sweet sweet processors.

My last AMD cpu was an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, I would love to get back on the red train for a change after owning just intel for the last 10 years or so

Come on AMD, pull it together and at least be competitive again!

/crosses fingers

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#5277801 Posted on: 05/23/2016 03:20 PM

I've been holding off upgrading because I want to see what Zen does. As long as it competes with Skylake in performance-per-watt (with an equal thread count), that's good enough for me. My current PC is still good enough and does everything I want it to, but it's just so power hungry. It spews so much heat. I'd like to cut the wattage in half with equal or better performance, which honestly is actually pretty achievable for me.

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#5277802 Posted on: 05/23/2016 03:22 PM

I am looking forward to this. It might force Intel to lower prices if it's comparably quick, so I'll probably hold off until it's released before I upgrade either to that or BW-E.

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#5277806 Posted on: 05/23/2016 03:24 PM

I am hopeful. Simply because the guy behind Zen is awesome. And I hope they will bring out something like they had all those years a go. Tho this time only to catch up. I will buy myself a Zen pc if it is as fast as skylake.

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