AMD Ryzen CPUs Over 3.4 GHz Coming To Save The Day
It appears that pretty much all the details for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen CPUs have been leaked by the folks over at VideoCardz. Legit Reviews first started talking about Ryzen nearly two weeks ago and it turns out that we were onto something. The new name for AMD Summit Ridge Zen processors is indeed Ryzen! We thought it was going to be pronounced “risen”, but it is really pronounced “Ry-Zen”.
The slides leaked by VideoCardz shows that the RYZEN processor series will be released sometime in Q1 2017 and that it will have 8 cores, 16 threads, 20 MB of total cache with a clock speed of over 3.40 GHz. From what we gather with the leaks is that AMD is still finalizing clock speeds, but they are certain that some Ryzen processors will be shipping with base clocks over 3.4 GHz! This is great news for AMD and we can’t wait to learn how high they can get the final clock speeds and what Turbo speeds they will be able to hit. We also can’t wait to see how Ryzen CPUs will compare to Intel’s Broadwell-E and Skylake/Kaby Lake CPU series.
AMD Ryzen processors will be using the AMD AM4 platform that features all the latest technologies like DDR4, PCIe Gen 3, USB 3.1 Gen 2, NVMe and SATA Express for the ultimate upgradeability and expandability. The board pictures is likely just one of many AMD AM4 boards that will be released in Q1 2017 along with AMD Ryzen processors.
AMD Ryzen processors also appear to have a new feature called eXtended Frequency Range (XFR) that allows the processor to basically overclock above and beyond normal Precision Boost limits if your CPU cooling solution is good enough. Having a clock speed that scales with your CPUs cooling solution is good news for makers of enthusiast water cooling solutions and extreme overclockers using LN2. The best part of all this is that it is all fully automated, so end users won’t have to do anything.
VideoCardz also leaked slides on Smart Prefetch, a new power-management system called AMD Pure Power, and AMD Precision Boost. We’ll talk more about those when the actual embargo lifts as we already wrote an article that is scheduled to be posted at 3pm CST. Since some sites broke the NDA by nearly a day we wanted to bring you some of the news as by this afternoon some of you guys might be no longer interested as you’ve seen a good chunk of the news.
The AMD New Horizon online event will take place today at 1 p.m. PST on December 13th, 2016. You can sign up to watch the ‘New Horizon’ public event on AMDs website.