AMD Zen 6 rumours

[Raiden85]

I agree we don't need that kind of MT performance on gaming desktops, the 24c zen6 and 52c novalake chip appear to be just be circle jerk parts to try and one up each other for no real benefit to gamers

But it's still nice to have it when you need it. While my 7950X3D spends 95% of its time playing games or watching videos, it's so nice to have when I want lots of cores for things like video AI upscaling hundreds of old TV episodes on my Plex server that have never been remastered for 1080p Blu-ray, let alone 4K, so I did it myself. While this is primarily GPU-intensive, it does use every CPU thread I can throw at it, along with using my 4090 running at full load.

So I can't wait to just throw in a Zen 6 CPU into my board to get even more MT performance.

 

[jigger]

WTF tech claiming Zen 6 beats Zen 5 clocked at 2ghz.

 

[Nutty667]

That might be more that the base clock was 2Ghz, but it has boost of 5.37Ghz

AMD Zen 6 Medusa Point APU Posts Fastest x86 Mobile Geekbench Single-Core Score Yet

AMD's upcoming Zen 6-based Medusa Point mobile platform has appeared in Geekbench once again, and the latest engineering sample delivers its strongest performance yet.

www.guru3d.com

 

[Grim5]

Hard to trust pre release software, they can often read clocks incorrectly on engineering sample hardware because they haven't been updated for the new chips

So I'd take the 2ghz clock speed with a giant grain of salt

 

[Troezar]

Looks like there may be a sizeable upgrade to my 7600 coming. Need a GPU worthy of it first though...

 

[jigger]

Looks like there may be a sizeable upgrade to my 7600 coming. Need a GPU worthy of it first though...

At the highest end maybe 6x the performance, which is pretty spectacular in only two generations and on the same platform.

 

[Troezar]

At the highest end maybe 6x the performance, which is pretty spectacular in only two generations and on the same platform.

Almost like the old days when your PC was obsolete in 6 months

 

[Robba44]

WTF tech claiming Zen 6 beats Zen 5 clocked at 2ghz.

A power increase of that magnitude?? It's inconceivable.

 

[FredFlint]

It depends how AMD's new chips scales with frequency. AMD's old chips(A64) had much lower frequency than Intel's(2Ghz vs 3Ghz) but had similar or better performance. The top of the frequency scale does not always bring the same amount of performance for most things, it does add lots of extra power usage though. I think 50% better vs 7x chips + lower power would be good. Add the extra cores and instruction and that's a sweet chip (if priced well).