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    Zen 2

    Next year (possibly Q1), AMD will release the Ryzen 3000 series. Up to 16c/32t mainstream and will still be compatible with current AM4 motherboards. At the same clock speed as 2000 series Ryzens, these should be 10-15% faster. The current 2000 series is made with a 12nm process. The 3000 series is looking like it will be 7nm so there should be a nice power efficiency increase as well.


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    Re: Zen 2

    Any AVX fixes/upgrades?
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    Re: Zen 2

    Quote Originally Posted by zombie67 View Post
    Any AVX fixes/upgrades?
    No word on that yet


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    Re: Zen 2

    Threadripper 2 pricing seems to be confirmed.

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    Re: Zen 2

    About the Ryzen 3000 series
    Final retail samples could be more than 15% IPC jump versus what we have been hearing for a while. But it doesn’t end here.

    Zen 2 is also aiming to fix and improve upon the memory controller by reducing the memory delay and allowing better support for higher frequency, lower latency memory. The other thing being talked about is AVX support. It is said that Zen 2 won’t support AVX-512 but will definitely get AVX performance enhancement compared to what Zen 1 can do right now. The clock speeds also get a huge jump, thanks to both, the TSMC 7nm node and revamped architecture design and one can also expect refined boost frequencies, allowing for higher XFR and Precision Boost limits.


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    Re: Zen 2

    Ryzen 3xxx = Zen 2? That’s not confusing at all.

    Good to see AVX is getting improvement. Too bad about 512.
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    Re: Zen 2

    Quote Originally Posted by zombie67 View Post
    Ryzen 3xxx = Zen 2? That’s not confusing at all.

    Good to see AVX is getting improvement. Too bad about 512.
    Yes. Ryzen 1xxx = Zen
    Ryzen 2xxx = Zen+
    Ryzen 3xxx = Zen 2

    I'm not that upset about AVX 512. Intel overheats badly when they run it and hardly anything makes use of it anyway. AVX2 is where it's at


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    Re: Zen 2

    Any projected launch/availability dates for the TR3s?


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    Re: Zen 2

    Zen 2 will also offer double the floating point performance of Zen, supporting 256-bit floating point calculations, which is a major stride for AMD, as AVX support is a strong point for Intel processors.
    Boom.

    @Bryan: TR3 should appear next summer. The next round of Epyc CPUs will be 64c/128t (and a benchmark released today shows a just one beating dual Xeon 8180 Platinums) so this is getting nuts. Core Wars!


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    Re: Zen 2

    I think I will build one.
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