{"id":176479,"date":"2016-08-19T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176479"},"modified":"2016-08-19T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:37:32","slug":"our-zen-cpu-will-outperform-intel-broadwell-e-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/176479-our-zen-cpu-will-outperform-intel-broadwell-e-amd.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Zen CPU will outperform Intel Broadwell-E: AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has delayed the launch of its Zen CPU architecture until early 2017, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/08\/amd-zen-performance-details-release-date\/\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company promised its new CPUs will outperform Intel&#8217;s Broadwell-E class of\u00a0i7 processors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, AMD recently showed\u00a0one of its 8-core (16 thread) Zen processors\u00a0outperforming a similar Intel Broadwell-E CPU in a Blender rendering demo.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s new Zen architecture replaces clustered multithreading\u00a0with the\u00a0simultaneous multithreading technology Intel uses in its CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Desktop Zen processors\u00a0will also have a new cache memory hierarchy with 8MB of L3 cache, including an\u00a0improved\u00a0pre-fetcher, a large unified L2 cache, and separate low-latency L1 instruction and data caches.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on AMD<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/166972-amd-unveils-value-for-money-radeon-rx-480-graphics-card.html\"><strong>AMD unveils value-for-money Radeon RX 480 graphics card<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/161834-amd-unveils-32gb-firepro-w9100.html\"><strong>AMD unveils 32GB FirePro W9100<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/158619-amd-reveals-radeon-pro-duo-dual-gpu-fiji-card.html\"><strong>AMD reveals Radeon Pro Duo \u2013 dual GPU Fiji card<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/158175-ubuntu-dropping-support-for-amd-catalyst-binary-driver.html\"><strong>Ubuntu dropping support for AMD Catalyst binary driver<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch AMD&#8217;s Zen CPU architecture has been delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":150881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,577,131],"class_list":["post-176479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176503,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479\/revisions\/176503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}