AMD **NEW** Zen CPUs

[Guest]

Hey so I heard about those new Zen CPUs, a couple of questions:

 

1. Do we know exactly when they are being released??

2. Do we know what they are best for? (Gaming, workstations, etc)

3. How many cores they will feature?

4. Can they compete with Intel CPUs?

5. Should I wait for the Zen CPUs or should I get a 4820K??

[Samfisher]

1.No

2.No

3.Who knows.

4.Who knows.

5.Who knows. They are at least a year away.

[Nena Trinity]

Hey so I heard about those new Zen CPUs, a couple of questions:

 

1. Do we know exactly when they are being released??

2. Do we know what they are best for? (Gaming, workstations, etc)

3. How many cores they will feature?

4. Can they compete with Intel CPUs?

5. Should I wait for the Zen CPUs or should I get a 4820K??

1. Late 2016 (if AMD does not screw up!)

2. Gaming the rumors claims

3. 4-cores + Hyper-treading max

4. Maybe?

5. Yes!

[comicsansms]

1. unknown

2. unknown

3. unknown

4. Probably

5. Probably

[ThatOneRussian]

I thought they were coming out early 2016?

[Swndlr]

Let me consult my crystal ball

[ApolloX75]

Hey so I heard about those new Zen CPUs, a couple of questions:

 

1. Do we know exactly when they are being released??

2. Do we know what they are best for? (Gaming, workstations, etc)

3. How many cores they will feature?

4. Can they compete with Intel CPUs?

5. Should I wait for the Zen CPUs or should I get a 4820K??

Here. This should answer most of your questions.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/345063-amd-x86-16-core-zen-apu-detailed/

[Samfisher]

I thought they were coming out early 2016?

Q4 2016 if anything.

[CostcoSamples1]

All we know for sure is that they may or may not be good or bad, depending on the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter.

[Guest]

1. Late 2016 (if AMD does not screw up!)

2. Gaming the rumors claims

3. 4-cores + Hyper-treading max

4. Maybe?

5. Yes!

danks for this answer...I marked it as solved...very useful

[Nena Trinity]

danks for this answer...I marked it as solved...very useful

It is just what AMD have let us know so far sadly not much more info to find... V_V

[Guest]

It is just what AMD have let us know so far sadly not much more info to find... V_V

Still more useful that what anything else has told me...

 

16 cores hyperthreaded

[Shakaza]

Hey so I heard about those new Zen CPUs, a couple of questions:

 

1. Do we know exactly when they are being released??

2. Do we know what they are best for? (Gaming, workstations, etc)

3. How many cores they will feature?

4. Can they compete with Intel CPUs?

5. Should I wait for the Zen CPUs or should I get a 4820K??

1. Late 2016 is probably the most accurate answer we can give you.

2. Zen will probably have CPUs with mid-range clockspeed and core counts, and perhaps some with high core counts and lower clockspeeds.

3. Not sure; I've heard multiple rumors, some suggesting up to 16 cores, but we won't know for certain until next year.

4. Doubtful. From the numbers AMD has given us, Zen most likely won't be able to compete with the latest Intel CPUs released by that time. That leaves only competitive pricing, but even that won't be likely since Zen will have a more traditional core design, which will probably bring costs closer to Intel's offerings. And I can't claim to understand the economics behind this, but I figure that Intel may be able to produce CPUs more cheaply since they have their own fabs, and there's no middleman to drive costs up.

5. Depends. Which do you value more, the ability to know exactly what you're getting in terms of performance, or the hope that you may find something with more performance on the off chance that Zen is a rousing success? Knowing what we do now, I would personally go for the 4820k if that's what you're really so dead-set on, but I would rather go for a 5820k, but that's a different story.