Wow, performance competitive with i9-9900K at nearly half the power draw would be huge if it turns out to be true. Can’t wait for benchmarks.
What an architecture Zen is.
What an architecture Zen is.
Also, I'm worried that they're at "engineering sample, glad it didn't crash" stage. Optimistically this will hit shelves at Q3, and at this point we may see sunny-cove-based 10nm (Whole chip, not only the "chiplet") cpu from the blue team.
I think AMD's success will come down to pricing...
>"If we take a look at our average system idle power in our own reviews which is around 55W, this would make the Intel CPU around 125W, whereas the AMD CPU would be around 75W"
I have no idea what percent of idle power consumption the cpu should be responsible for, from their treatment I would assume negligible.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-sky...
And then power, part of that is process and part is design. I am not skilled enough to call that, but as leakage current drops, then does power draw, static power draw, allowing for frequencies to scale over larger ranges. Hell, maybe went with some novel clockless design.
Either way, this is momentous.
clockless and low power.. exciting