Thursday evening proved to be loaded with important news. Obviously expecting a noticeable revival of "mobile branch" to the beginning of September, AMD and NVIDIA decided to issue a new piece of information about their own updates to another end of the second decade of August .
AMD has attracted the press and analysts at a special event in San Francisco to tell new details about the Zen processors architecture, demonstrate examples of 32-core server processors this generation and motherboards for them, and most importantly - to demonstrate the performance level of eight-core processor Summit Ridge, which at the beginning of next year will adorn motherboards with socket socket AM4.
AMD set against eight-core processor Broadwell-E with a frequency of 3.0 GHz, engineering model Summit Ridge, which also has eight physical cores and can handle up to 16 simultaneous streams. In Blender test both processors engaged in rendering an image, and according to AMD's itself, its engineering model is not only behind the Broadwell-E, and even turned out to be a little faster.
But AMD representatives stated that the serial processors Summit Ridge will operate at frequencies exceeding 3.0 GHz. Incidentally, the average sales price of these processors will be higher than the current flagship AMD desktop segment.
Ready-made PCs with socket Socket AM4 will appear in the current half of the year, but they will use Bristol Ridge processors in the appropriate design concept, which supports Excavator architecture. Release dates Summit Ridge in a document not explicitly called, but AMD confirms that they are the first representatives of Zen architecture, entered the market. The participants agree that talking about Summit Ridge CPU availability could be no earlier than the first quarter of 2017.