In AMD's own side event this week, the American multinational semiconductor company invited select members of the press and analysts to come and talk about the next layer of Zen details.
Part of the event was the discussion the microarchitecture announcements that were made, and a glimpse on how this compares to previous generations of AMD core designs, according to Anandtech.
AMD cleared it out that the long-awaited Zen processor actually exists, and it's on track to ship in early 2017 for desktops. The tech company is working toward at the high-end PC gaming market, in contrast to the company's last few chips appealed more to budget builders.
As AMD CEO Lisa Su listed off the company's most recent accomplishments, the CEO stated that their center of interest is on high-performance CPUs and GPUs. The company's focus also includes building the chips powering both the PS4, Xbox One, One S and the upcoming Project Scorpio.
CEO Su also said that their company tends to deliver a surprisingly powerful $200 video card in the Radeon RX480, based on the report of Engadget.
AMD showed off the Zen running clock-for-clock through some demos, in which it can technically match Intel's 6900K. While these demos were not able to perform at full speed, AMD made it a point that they could match Intel clock-for-clock in certain workloads.
However, even though such demos are always singled out to favor one's own company, the company gave some additional context regarding the capability of Zen, Extreme Tech reported.
Anyway, AMD made it known that Zen will have 40% better instructions per clock (IPC) compared to its previous Excavator architecture. Which means, the higher IPC the CPU can have, the more work the CPU can perform in a given amount of time.
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