Active in recent days specifications of AMD Ryzen 7 3000nm processors of the Matisse family, which will soon offer the Zen 2 architecture. Existing engineering samples, according to unofficial sources, are capable of offering up to 16 cores and frequencies over 4.0 GHz, but a twelve-core processor with a higher frequency limit is also mentioned. When a sample of the Matisse processor was first demonstrated by Lisa Su at CES 2019 in January, the head of AMD confirmed that future models could get more than eight cores, but did not name specific numbers.
Raise the degree of emotional stress undertook a popular channel , which clarified several technical features of not only processors with the Zen 2 architecture, but also their successors with the Zen 3 architecture. processors are already known.
We emphasize that everything voiced by the RedGamingTech channel is based on rumors, and therefore can be taken for granted with significant reservations. We list the main revelations that were made in the next news release of this source:
- The Matisse processor with twelve cores will be able to dynamically increase the frequency up to 5,0 GHz. How many cores will remain active in this case is not specified.
- The AMD Zen 3 architecture will allow the creation of processors capable of processing up to four threads per core. This feature will not be available for all models. The source suggests that the maximum number of threads per core will be offered by EPYC server processors of the Milan generation, for consumer models the number of threads per core will be reduced to two or three. Four threads per core was already supported by IBM server processors and Intel Xeon Phi accelerators, so the idea itself is not new.
- It is proposed to increase the volume of the first level cache in order to increase the efficiency of processing four threads simultaneously by the kernel.
- In light of the emergence of 7nm AMD Ryzen processors with 12 and 16 cores, the timing of the announcement of the third generation Ryzen Threadripper processors remains in question. Their predecessors already offer up to 32 cores, a further increase in their number in the consumer sector is not so important, so while AMD is thinking about a strategy to promote the new generation of Ryzen Threadripper on the market.
- Processors with Zen 3 architecture, after being adapted to the needs of Microsoft, can be registered in the next generation Xbox game console. Dev kits are rumored to be starting to roll out already, and this confirms support for at least three threads per core.
- AMD processors with Zen 3 architecture can also get a 1 GB LXNUMX cache, which will be integrated in a separate tier. Recently about the spatial layout of dissimilar processors Intel, but AMD has been nurturing similar ideas for a long time.
Source: 3dnews.ru