AMD Zen Processors To Be Announced On December 13th in Austin
AMD recently announced on Twitter that they will be offering a sneak preview of its upcoming high-performance Zen CPU series in less than two weeks at an event taking place Austin, Texas. The good news is that the sneak preview will be live streamed to anyone that wants to watch it take place at 1 p.m. PST on December 13th, 2016. You can sign up to watch the ‘New Horizon’ public event on AMDs website.
Watch New Horizon, hosted by Geoff Keighley, for an exclusive advance preview of our new Zen CPU ahead of its 2017 Q1 launch, the company said on the public invite. See eSports & Evil Geniuses legend PPD put Zen through its paces. Therell be appearances from special guests and giveaways. This is the first time the public will be able to try it themselves and see its capabilities. If youre serious about gaming, this is an event you do not want to miss.
AMD Zen will be its high-performance CPU and will be the biggest CPU launch for AMD in more than a decade. AMD isn’t offering to many details about the event, but eSports legend PPD will be using a system with a Zen processor during the event and will be putting the new chip to the test. The event appears to be aimed at gamers and giveaways will be had. We just aren’t sure if the giveaways are for the public that is physically there or possibly for those that are watching online as well.
The last time we saw AMD Zen it was back in the summer months and AMD was showing off an 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge Zen processor that was able to perform better than an Intel Core i7 Broadwell-E processor that had same core/thread count when they were clocked the same using Sony’s Blender 3D rendering application. Since that event we’ve learned that AMD will be releasing at least four Zen-based processors in the Summit Ridge series in early 2017. Rumor has it that the SR7 series (Summit Ridge) will be the flagship parts and will be launching first and then AMD will later launch the lower-end Zen CPUs that are part of the SR5 and SR3 series sometime at the end of Q1 2017 if all goes as planned.
AMD should also be releasing VEGA GPU to the Radeon series of desktop gaming graphics cards around this time, so Q1 2017 will be an exciting time for enthusiasts. AMD might have a CPU and GPU designs that are competitive with Intel on the CPU side and and NVIDIA on the graphics side. Maybe AMD will stop using Intel processors for all their video card testing if Zen is up for the job. AMD might play off that they use Intel processors for testing graphics card as that is what most people use, but deep down it is that really the truth?
A replay of the webcast will also be accessible on the AMD YouTube channel for those that found this news post later or can’t watch the live event.