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New Zen microarchitecture details

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All "X" are the XFR one's! Zen is a masterpiece of engineering and now you can tell from the ISSCC... I would say that IPC is from 40% and up to much higher numbers depending on workload. IPC AMD and IPC Intel will vary as they differ much in their architectures.
 
You once 'calculated' 4GHz base 95W LAUNCH too... With 4.5GHz Turbo. Based on your FO4+Neon claims.

Say so a billion wrongs things and you're bound to get something right.

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At least he is optimistic and get many things right. I dont always agree with him - far from- but very much value his approach and try to learn from it.
But can you stop whining? You have been whining and making personal attack on bjt for 100 post. Ask yourself when you will stop crying.
 
If prices are true it seems to me they got it right this time unlike eg phenom and bd that was overpriced.

This will enable stable prices during the year and an updated zen can continue this segmentation. Just like the core line. Stable and predictable. There might be shortages because this looks like an optimal server solution so that market will eat a lot, but this will again establish amd as a trustworthy brand with prices that dont colaps.

I am sure they did lisnt to my pricing advice a month ago. Good boys 😉
 
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At least he is optimistic and get many things right. I dont always agree with him - far from- but very much value his approach and try to learn from it.
But can you stop whining? You have been whining and making personal attack on bjt for 100 post. Ask yourself when you will stop crying.
The debate between bjt2 and KTE is an interesting one, and instead of jumping on bjt2's defense with excuses of 'optimism,' I'd much rather sit back and watch the reviews flow in and see who was right. bjt2 seems quite knowledgeable on the subject and I for one am interested in seeing whether he's right about 14nm FO4 process and it's potentially high frequency potential in the Zen implementation. (4.5/4.6Ghz, single core turbo).
 
Looking at the per-core voltage regulation in Ryzen with the LDO, I wonder how Intel's voltage regulation differs from it? It seems that this is a big factor in lowering the power consumption of the Zen cores.
 
You once 'calculated' 4GHz base 95W LAUNCH too... With 4.5GHz Turbo. Based on your FO4+Neon claims.

Say so a billion wrongs things and you're bound to get something right.

Sent from HTC 10
(Opinions are own)

I have not lost hopes that this can happen. If you remember well, i also stated that probabily 4GHz will not be achieved in the first batches, but maybe later in the year. Don't report only the part that is, for now, wrong... Finally, if the frequency leaked in those e-shops are base and not turbo, then i was right...
 
Didn't you support Kanter who claimed a 3.2GHz base clock and "unknown" turbo? At least this bjt guy has balls enough to stick his neck out on turbo speeds.

If 3.6GHz base clock is true then Kanter is at least 12.5% out on his base clocks. If Zen launches at 4.0GHz turbo then bjt will also be 12.5% out on that with his 4.5GHz assumption. It would be smart to assume 3.6GHz is the very least and 4GHz too. 😉

Yeah I'm aware that clocks don't scale that way esp with power, but consider how different the scenario is to what you all thought it would be even only 6 months ago. 🙂

I predicted 4 base and 4.5 turbo (but on another forum, more AMD friendly, i made a stronger prediction: 4 base and 4.8-5 max turbo).
 
Looking at the per-core voltage regulation in Ryzen with the LDO, I wonder how Intel's voltage regulation differs from it? It seems that this is a big factor in lowering the power consumption of the Zen cores.
It looks vastly superior to what Intel is doing.
 
Anyone knows so far if XFR could be turn on-off in BIOS setting? This might sound weird, but this could be important in research works. You would want the clock frequency to be relatively constant while you are benchmarking some new algorithms.

I think will be sufficient lower the TDP knob to the minimum to lock the frequency to the base clock...
 
Some thoughts on two slides: (excuse me for font size but with small font is unreadable)

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Last line can even mean lower FO4 than Excavator.


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Second line: XV was a 9T (HDL) design. The second phrase can mean that Zen is made with 10.5T libraries. Namely the Highest performance...
 
Looking at the per-core voltage regulation in Ryzen with the LDO, I wonder how Intel's voltage regulation differs from it? It seems that this is a big factor in lowering the power consumption of the Zen cores.

Intel's FIVR is a ultra high frequency (>= 140MHz) switching converter. AMD's converters are digital low-dropout (dLDO). The consumers should not worry about these, for reasons I will not disclose until the release.
 
Intel's FIVR is a ultra high frequency (>= 140MHz) switching converter. AMD's converters are digital low-dropout (dLDO). The consumers should not worry about these, for reasons I will not disclose until the release.

Hey, can you share info if we will be able to overclock Ryzen past the stock TDP. Will motherboards allow disabling TDP throttling?

It would be huge issue if 65W Zen couldn't be OCed past the TDP limit without custom bios 😛
 
The Stilt said:
Intel's FIVR is a ultra high frequency (>= 140MHz) switching converter. AMD's converters are digital low-dropout (dLDO). The consumers should not worry about these, for reasons I will not disclose until the release.
Not worry about it as in the implementations are equal in results?
 
Not worry about it as in the implementations are equal in results?

Personally, I absolutely hate both of them.
They are two completely different animals, but they have the same down sides.
Consumers never have to deal with any of the dLDO related stuff. Business as usual.
 
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