AMD 7nm Zen 2 = 13% IPC Gain ?? | Remedy Shows Performance Impact of Ray Tracing

According to a report from Bits and Chips, AMD's Zen 2 which is based on the 7nm architecture, will bring to the table an impressive 13% IPC gain. Considering the improvements that Zen+ brought to the table, this is promising for the next gen Ryzen CPUs....

We also see Intel and ARM teaming up for something in the Internet of Things, which should bring some much needed flexibility to the cloud based solution.

Finally, Remedy (best known for Alan Wake) have shown the performance impact of ray tracing... and it's looking rather hefty even for the flagship Turing GPU, the RTX 2080Ti.

Speaking of, Gigabyte have crushed all of our hopes and dreams by saying that the RTX 2070Ti ad that was out in the wild was a "typo".

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[DavidWilsonsays]

Intel looks to replace the leg it's lost to AMD by adding an ARM.

[ketzakov]

13% is pretty high. Better not raise the expectations too much.

[KNightstyleZ]

*Remember that if the Zen 2 IPC leak can be trusted it's still a very young engineering sample, i wouldn't be surprised to see ~20% IPC over 1st Generation Zen upon finished product*

[aflyingmodem]

Zen 2 having 13% Ipc at 4.2ghz would either beat or match intel current best cpu the 9900K, zen 2 also reported to have a better clock speed and reach 4.5ghz, so small clock speed bump with 13% ipc gains they will for sure be on par or better than intel’s 10nm, and we will have a real price war between the companies, but intel is probably not going to be able to meet demand and have a shortage and if and can keep up with demand they will win big time

[iamu]

Any one else that hopes Intel cronies read these channel comments? Cant wait for Zen 2 7nm.

[marcusc]

Can't wait to upgrade to a 3700X from my 1700.

[danielepicone]

13% IPC and 8% clock speed (leaked E.Sample) and the 8/16core/thread Zen2 is already at 2, 170 Chinebanch score wich is around about where the i9 9900k should be at...

Keep in mind, that 8% (4, 5Ghz) clock speed is very conservative because is an E.Sample, for comparison the E.Sample Zen1 was clocked at 3, 4Ghz and ended up to be up to 4, 0Ghz, so there is eaven more room to improvement.

According to AMD at Computex 7nm should be capable of +35% clockspeed.

[theoneyoudontsee]

i would like to see tighter timings over lower voltage for the ddr5 standard.

[slickjim]

intel has had this a long time coming. im glad now they have some honest competition. Now all we need is nvidia to stumble and amd to be on top for a while b4 nvidia matches or beats them again. Might actually see some real tech jumps in gfx cards.

[williammecca]

7nm + Vega 2 are both exciting news for possible future APU’s.

[kixingneoxloth]

hahahaha Intel Secure device, let me guess meltdown and spectre are included?

[DarkSoul-ds]

Imma buy a 7nm GPU + CPU laptop when they come out or a 7nm APU

[michaelwoods]

Hearing "13%IPC gain makes me sweat. Just don't go and pay a third party to do a review on the processor and disable half of intel's cores now and you'll do fine.

[marcusc]

I'm looking in the comments section specifically for an AMD hater and spammer who loves that caps lock.

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[larrygall]

16 GB chips? Or sticks.. 16 GB chips would be a gigantic departure from the ~1 GB chips we see on DDR4. I'm pretty sure you just picked the wrong word there. As for ray tracing.. couldn't they generate textures in the game world with RT on, from a few different angles, then save the results into textures to be rasterized during the game? In other words, use it as a development tool instead.. I guess that would mean the RT cores would have been better as CUDA or Turing cores instead on the gaming GPUs. This isn't going to end well. The same people who's eyes bulged, and walking in a trance toward the NVidia barn to be fleeced.. these are people who we hear in forums all the time telling us they won't play games at less than 144 Hz.. and there's no way RT can run at that speed. Not possible. Maybe not even at 60. This is going to end up being useless for 60+ FPS.

[BeyondEllisBeck]

If AMD can get it to Overclock to 5.0ghz+ then it’s a wrap for Intel.

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Intel: 😔

[soylentgreenb]

Look into what the management engine is (or its AMD equivalent) and you will understand why three letter agencies stopped caring about the ”danger” of ubiquitous encryption.

The ME is always on even if the computer is off, has access to RAM and IP stack without knowledge of the main CPU, cannot be disabled, runs code that is partially hard coded into the CPU die and completely opaque and unauditable to anyone outside intel and presumably NSA etc. if it is ever reverse engineered and hacked it is a perfect root kit.

Insecurity of things (IoT) vastly increases attack surface. There’s a billion ways this can hurt you. Other than direct camera access or microphone access, something as simple as a smart lightbulb can be used to check if you are home or not remotely to scope out a house for robbery. Insurance companies would love to know the contents of your smart fridge so they can judge if you are a good risk or not. Adding ME style technology to everything just makes it worse. This is the kind of dystopian future that would have given stalin a priapism.

[blackhairedgoon]

If true, Intel better make some big changes fast, or they could be fucked in just a few years.
They're losing regular desktop sales, they're losing workstation sales and now they're losing server sales to Epyc.

[blackhairedgoon]

Keep in mind this is the same site that over-hyped Vega.
Although Zen 2 will definitely be a big improvement, don't get too overexcited.

[ashenone]

40 not too bad. Remember, it's first generation. As long as the graphics are amazing and you just play Ray Tracing games like Metro on a native 1080p monitor.