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AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Keeps Pace With Kaby Lake IPC
When AMD first revealed their new architecture, the goal was for a 40% IPC uplift on top of Excavator. Over time, that got changed to 40%+ and now that Ryzen has launched, AMD has managed an astounding 52% IPC increase. Now that Ryzen samples have started to run in the…
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AMD 8 Core Zen 95W CPU May Launch in October
With each passing week, it seems like more rumors are coming concerning AMD’s upcoming Zen processors. From previous reports, we had expected AMD to release Zen near the tail end of 2016 but revenue from the new CPUs was not expected till early 2017. According to the latest rumour though, AMD may…
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AMD Patch Reveals Zen Cache Changes
With AMD CPU market share down in the pits, everyone is looking towards Zen to give Intel some competition in the high-end segment. Even with DX12 reducing the need for a strong single threaded CPU, there is nothing like a good architecture that can compete with Intel, especially in non-gaming…
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AMD Expects 40%+ IPC Increase for Zen
After many years of lagging CPU performance, AMD has suffered diminishing market and financial performance. This may change later this year as AMD comes back with their new Zen architecture that AMD originally expected to bring up to 40% IPC increase over their current lineup. According to AMD’s latest report,…
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AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD owned fab have led to a change to use the 16nm process at TSMC, the same one used for…
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AMD Confident Zen Will Deliver on Performance
AMD took a blow this past week after another major departure. While some have taken Jim Keller’s departure to be negative news, we aren’t so sure. Internally though, AMD still seems to be in high spirits and hopes are high for Zen. Speaking for the Zen design team, engineer Suzanne…
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Intel Skylake μArch Analysis from IDF 2015
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 today. We finally know what improvement and tweaks Intel has done to make Skylake a tad bit faster than Haswell. While Intel…
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Rumors Suggest AMD Zen Instruction Set Parity with Haswell/Broadwell
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have a 40% IPC increase compared to Excavator, bringing AMD’s IPC much closer to Intel’s in one jump. Zen…
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Leaked Skylake Slides Suggest Focus on iGPU
More Skylake details have leaked out ahead of its August launch and this time around, we’re being treated to what appears to be official Intel slides. Once again, it seems like Intel is emphasizing the iGPU side of things though we do see that Intel expects some decent IPC gains…
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New AMD Zen Core Details Leaked
New information for AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture has been leaked ahead of the company’s annual Financial Analyst Day. The leak image appears to be an official slide details the block diagram for the next generation architecture. If this slide is legitimate, this will offer the first glimpse into the innards…
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