SomeGuy133
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where is this SKL is 20% faster than HW? SKL on average is 6% not 20% unless your talking about browser benchmarks like kraken.the success or failure of zen will depend entirely of prices.. we have already in the market "Haswell" level of performance since 3 years ago.. we have actually skylake which it's a ~20% average of performance above haswell.... Even if AMD truly reached all the estimations about IPC that will mean still not much if Zen can't reach Intel-like clocks which may still keep'em out of the competition, that's why most people think zen will still be a failure, because they are aiming 3 years old performance..
Only people that are going to buy Zen are the same people have AMD chips today, so very very little amount... they need to be appealing to intel users, they need to make people jump the fence and buy their zen processors, they need to convince intel people they have a competitive product with latest intel products which at that moment probably they will be faced against kabylake, if not then no matter what, it will be a failure, that's why prices are what can save truly AMD. .
What make you think Zen 8c/16t will cost 200$? that's almost absurd, 200$ will be about what a 4c/8t zen chip could cost..
If they have HW performance 95% of SKL and a 16 core ECC CPU for $1000 AMD will have my money. I'll upgrade my server to that in a heart beat.