As the matter approaches the announcement of the new 7nm Ryzen 3000 (Matisse) processors, more and more intriguing information is leaking into the network. This time around, Geekbench has revealed test results for a next-generation 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen sample with Zen 2 microarchitecture. Apparently, a processor with such characteristics will be classified by AMD as an entry-level offering for the future lineup, but its performance figures interesting anyway. The fact is that such a six-core third-generation Ryzen turned out to be faster than the older second-generation model, the Ryzen 7 2700X.
At the same time, the frequencies of the tested six-core Ryzen 3000 were very modest - 3,2 GHz in the base and 4,0 GHz in turbo mode. Based on early leaks about the composition of the future lineup, a processor with such characteristics may be called the Ryzen 3 3300 and the price is around $100. However, one cannot be completely sure of this, since the appearance of this processor in the Geekbench database surprisingly coincided with reports from computer OEMs that they began to receive Ryzen 5 3600 samples from AMD, a processor that, in their opinion, in The updated lineup will be at the entry level.
But be that as it may, the test results of the "budget" six-core Ryzen 3000 with frequencies of 3,2-4,0 GHz look very impressive: the processor scores 5061 points in a single-threaded test and 25 points in a multi-threaded one. And that means AMD's next-gen hexa-core Geekbench scores better than not only the 481-5GHz hexa-core Ryzen 2600 3,6X, but also the 4,2-GHz octa-core Ryzen 7 2700X. 3,7 GHz.
In other words, the Zen 2 microarchitecture is able to raise the performance of the Ryzen processor family to a noticeably higher level even without increasing the number of processing cores, but only due to an increase in IPC (the number of instructions executed per clock cycle). As a result, the performance of last year's flagships may soon become available to owners of low-cost systems.
Recall that we are waiting for the announcement of Ryzen 3000 (Matisse) processors tomorrow morning as part of a speech at the opening of Computex 2019 by AMD leader Lisa Su.
Source: 3dnews.ru