AMD Zen Performance Preview

Now watch AMD finally come out with a part almost as good as Intel's but completely screw up pricing it like they did with the Fury and 7900 series gpus.
 
AMD doesn't have to outright beat Intel in performance to start winning again (would be a plus but very unlikely), it is more important for them improve their margins again and get back into the black to fund future R&D.

agree that they don't need to outright win, if they can get close with a competitive price this will definitely give people more options. i really do hope it's able to be competitive because i'd like to go back to supporting AMD products.
 
I will say I am bit more excited for Ryzen, or Zen what ever they want to call it.

They come straight out and say 3.4ghz base speed which I think took everyone by surprise. Esp when people were predicting them to be low 3ghz max speed parts. Now that is all left to see is how high can go, and of course a much wider benchmark suite.

Glad I've held out on a upgrade for so long, appears it was worth waiting for.
 
wow went quiet in here all of a sudden! whered all the tin-foil hats go? still think amd was lying and giving out false info, faking tests and hiding altered settings? geez....

Its not too far to suspect AMD is lying...history informs the future. But, its good everything is resolved, now time for launch and hopefully a HardOCP review soon after.
 
wow went quiet in here all of a sudden! whered all the tin-foil hats go? still think amd was lying and giving out false info, faking tests and hiding altered settings? geez....

Because the last time Core 2 was destroying A64 in everything Intel was sending pre-release samples to everybody to test, instead of just leaking numbers for just one specific app?
 
wow went quiet in here all of a sudden! whered all the tin-foil hats go? still think amd was lying and giving out false info, faking tests and hiding altered settings? geez....

Its one application, we should really wait for other tests, added to this the last two time AMD had something good, K8 and A64, they were chest pounding a month before release. Now having said that, AMD keeping quiet can still be very good, because we saw that chest pounding with their GPU's and CPU's (phenom) were just disappointments (we kinda can throw BD in there too, because it was an AMD employee that blew it out of the water even though it wasn't done by official channels), so it could just be an apprehension of what the backlash was or they have learned a lesson.
 
Because the last time Core 2 was destroying A64 in everything Intel was sending pre-release samples to everybody to test, instead of just leaking numbers for just one specific app?

If zen was destroying intel, I'm sure they send out samples to everyone too. What we're looking at is a part that is on par with current intel offerings.
 
wow went quiet in here all of a sudden! whered all the tin-foil hats go? still think amd was lying and giving out false info, faking tests and hiding altered settings? geez....
Can you link us to the last time this wasnt an issue?
 
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Kyle didn't you mention AMD should spell check their slides?
 
If zen was destroying intel, I'm sure they send out samples to everyone too. What we're looking at is a part that is on par with current intel offerings.

Matching Intel HEDT per core is already destroying Intel. AMD's current CPUs are in such shambles that they have nothing to lose by previewing samples.
 
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Kyle didn't you mention AMD should spell check their slides?
Hmm, I did fix that. It is pulling from a cached version. Lots of security changes lately and this has to do with those. Thanks for pointing this out.
 
Now watch AMD finally come out with a part almost as good as Intel's but completely screw up pricing it like they did with the Fury and 7900 series gpus.


Fury X and Fury Nano, yes. The 7970 and the 7950 were priced just as they should have been though. I have a feeling their prices will be exactly were we are willing to pay but, we will see. :)
 
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I'm all for hopping back over to AMD CPUs if the performance is there. Intel's latest offerings don't really seem to be much progress over previous generations. Hell, you can still get by with a 1st or 2nd gen i7 for a lot of uses.

I also find it weird that my current processor (4790K) is still essentially the same price as a 6700K.
 
I'm all for hopping back over to AMD CPUs if the performance is there. Intel's latest offerings don't really seem to be much progress over previous generations. Hell, you can still get by with a 1st or 2nd gen i7 for a lot of uses.

I also find it weird that my current processor (4790K) is still essentially the same price as a 6700K.
Well, what all new tech are these new motherboards going to support and how well are those going to work. Big part of the picture....
 
Fury X and Fury Nano, yes. The 7970 and the 7950 were priced just as they should have been though. I have a feeling their prices will be exactly were we are willing to pay but, we will see. :)
You really can't complain about Fiji prices either. It is not like AMD was acting greedy. It was a test run for HBM more than anything and implementing HBM was not cheap. I would be surprised if they made any money on it. They probably lost money, considering how Fury series barely even registers on Steam hardware survey.

Ryzen doesn't have this problem. They are also already selling product on the 14nm, so the yields are probably decent at least. I fully expect we'll see a competitive price.
 
Potentially matching Broadwell-E is a good start. By time this thing launches it will be going up against Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X so lets hope it can bring the clockspeeds to match those.
 
I am very excited about these new AMD CPU's and if performance can even come close to broadwell-e at a decent price I'll purchase it just support AMD. Intel needs some competition.
 
Thank you Kyle, for confirming this. Stupid on AMD, but this should clear up anyone saying this will never match and amd is straight out lying. Like you said they should have paid more attention to the file, lol. WTF amd is as true as it gets.

It's clear they delegate way too much, so much so that the details get lost. They need to hire some continuity people aka script supervisors from Hollywood to maintain at least some appearance of singularity of thought and logistics. Script or continuity supervisors maintain the flow of continuity from scene to scene with regards to props, wardrobe, anything and everything. For ex. if ya link a 100 sample file, you should note it so that ppl are not left scratching their heads, going wtf? All these stupid mistakes only provide fuel for the haters.
 
One reason I'm considering Zen vs Skylake-E, is ability to upgrade the CPU across generations, without buying an entire new motherboard. I'd be happy with Broadwell-E levels of performance.
 
One reason I'm considering Zen vs Skylake-E, is ability to upgrade the CPU across generations, without buying an entire new motherboard. I'd be happy with Broadwell-E levels of performance.
Much agree, great having options without having to update the whole system, OS etc. Now I wonder if the dual channel DDR 4 will ever really become a limitation for the Platform over time and what advantage does Intel quad channel memory has if any.
 
Much agree, great having options without having to update the whole system, OS etc. Now I wonder if the dual channel DDR 4 will ever really become a limitation for the Platform over time and what advantage does Intel quad channel memory has if any.

There are probably some really obscure edge cases where the quad channel memory controller makes a tangible difference, although DDR 4 will continue to get faster for awhile. That said, and I'm by no means predicting AMD will do this, but they could always put a stack of HBM on the package as a last level cache if they wanted to maintain platform capability without increasing the number of memory channels in the event they became limited by memory bandwidth in the future.
 
There are probably some really obscure edge cases where the quad channel memory controller makes a tangible difference, although DDR 4 will continue to get faster for awhile. That said, and I'm by no means predicting AMD will do this, but they could always put a stack of HBM on the package as a last level cache if they wanted to maintain platform capability without increasing the number of memory channels in the event they became limited by memory bandwidth in the future.
I wonder if the X370 motherboards will be able to support a type of Interposer for the CPU and HBM memory if that ever becomes available. APU's in particular with the platform.
 
Getting excited at Zen. Hope it pans out well in your [H] official review. We will know in a few weeks once they hit the shelves.
 
It's for sure faster than my 10 core:
E5-2680 V2 10 core 2.8ghz/ 3.6ghz turbo
40 seconds
 
@Kyle :
I'm just wondering if the 25MB of L3 Cache of the 6950X is causing any discrepancies.
The 6900K only has 20MB of L3 cache.

Disabling two cores is fun, but you can't disable the extra 5MB of L3 cache ?
 
@Kyle :
I'm just wondering if the 25MB of L3 Cache of the 6950X is causing any discrepancies.
The 6900K only has 20MB of L3 cache.

Disabling two cores is fun, but you can't disable the extra 5MB of L3 cache ?

You can't but I'm guessing it's probably not gonna make a huge difference since this is not a memory intensive benchmark. Usually rendering tasks do perform better with more cache however, so it would still be helpful if someone with a real i7-6900k could reproduce this result, if only to convince the last remaining skeptics around.
 
You can't but I'm guessing it's probably not gonna make a huge difference since this is not a memory intensive benchmark. Usually rendering tasks do perform better with more cache however, so it would still be helpful if someone with a real i7-6900k could reproduce this result, if only to convince the last remaining skeptics around.
Yup, there's nothing better than a real comparison.

The only way to do a correct reproduction of the results, is to use the same hardware+timings in all the tests, where possible.
Using a CPU with 25% extra L3 Cache, invalidates the results of the i7 for me.

As we see, Kyle is almost spot-on with the Zen chip, when the parameters are correct.
 
wow went quiet in here all of a sudden! whered all the tin-foil hats go? still think amd was lying and giving out false info, faking tests and hiding altered settings? geez....
My good sir, you deserve an award for that. Laughed my rear-end off.
 
Not to surprised about any of it really ;)

Until more information is released/independent reviews there isn't much more to talk about :)

We know Zen was doing quite differently in BF1 from the person there. Seems 6900K in BF1 was up to actually hitting the GPU limit unlike Zen.

Ryzen rig would only dip into the 57fps range every now and then for just a moment and jump back up to the mid-high 60's sometimes 70's. The Intel rig dipped into the low 60's only & hit 70fps+ and seemed to stay at higher fps more consistently.
 
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quote box but no source? youre one of the one always yellin about "wheres your source/proof?" so...
 
Until more information is released/independent reviews there isn't much more to talk about :)

We know Zen was doing quite differently in BF1 from the person there. Seems 6900K in BF1 was up to actually hitting the GPU limit unlike Zen.

They didn't run boost on the zen ? if so there's your answer.
Intel one does, amd does not probably.

But again, I'm not sure if BF actually loads many cores either, anyways I would assume it'd get a solid boost from core boost technology.

The ONLY semi hard proof of hope for some action in the X86 market is the blender test which is rather promising.
 
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