Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread

[Joe NYC]

It's never that easy (core's bigger and other things).
But 15% fmax is doable.

That's what I have been thinking. 15%, which corresponds to 6.5 GHz should be considered quite safe target, and anything over that would be a nice bonus.

 

[adroc_thurston]

That's what I have been thinking. 15%, which corresponds to 6.5 GHz should be considered quite safe target, and anything over that would be a nice bonus.

Yea.
Low-mid teens IPC plus 15% fmax and you have a contender.

 

[inquiss]

Plus more power to the cores from lower static power draw from the IO die. Not loads but will help. Plus cache. Gonna be a gaming beast.

 

[adroc_thurston]

Plus more power to the cores from lower static power draw from the IO die. Not loads but will help. Plus cache. Gonna be a gaming beast.

Yeah more stuff adds up.
It worked for Zen2/Zen4 and it'll work here too.

 

[Joe NYC]

Yea.
Low-mid teens IPC plus 15% fmax and you have a contender.

Zen 6.66 confirmed

 

[adroc_thurston]

Zen 6.66 confirmed

Idk but it'll be good enough.

 

[Timorous]

Zen 6.66 confirmed

It is the number of the beast after all.

 

[Josh128]

It is the number of the beast after all.

So you are saying Zen 6 will be a beast?

 

[Doug S]

N2 family is N2, N2p, N2x and A16.
There are no vanilla N2 designs, it's N2p and on.

What do you think A20/A20P will be, if not a "vanilla N2 design"? They can't use N2P, even if it follows N2 by only six months that's nowhere near soon enough to deliver finished chips in products by next September.

 

[adroc_thurston]

What do you think A20/A20P will be

N2p.

They can't use N2P, even if it follows N2 by only six months that's nowhere near soon enough to deliver finished chips in products by next September.

See there's a majick trick being done here.
N2 and N2p are fully design rule compatible so early adopters like AMD tape out A0 on N2 and write the final stepping mask set on N2p.