What If AMD Successfully launches a Winner 7NM Ryzen 3, while Intel struggles with 10nm CPUs?AMD Zen 2

AMD Ryzen 3000 Release Date & All We Know About Ryzen 3

Last year AMD moved from its original 14nm chips to the 2000-series 12nm Ryzen processors (like the Ryzen 7 2700X) that come wielding the Zen+ microarchitecture. Now, the Ryzen 3000 series is coming.

AMD is working feverishly to bring its Zen 2 microarchitecture to market packing a 7nm manufacturing process. Along with an improved Infinity Fabric, the collection of new technologies will come to market as the third-generation Ryzen ‘Matisse’ processors. If AMD can pull off this feat in a timely manner while Intel still struggles to roll out its 10nm CPUs, it will mark the first time in its history that AMD has taken the process node lead from Intel.

At CES 2019, AMD CEO Lisa Su showed off an “early” third-gen Ryzen desktop processor running a game paired with a Radeon VII. These 7nm chips will be the first desktop processors to support PCIe 4.0 x16 right out of the box. That also implies that the new 500-series chipsets will also support the new standard.

AMD Ryzen 3000 Demo. Image Credit: Tom’s Hardware

AMD’s Lisa Su has commented that the design obviously leaves room for another chiplet, and that “you might expect that we will have more than eight cores.” However, Su did not specify how many more cores will come with the processors, or if they would arrive during the initial launch or come as a follow-up series of chips.

AMD Zen 2 Leaked Specs List

Thanks to a recent rumor, we have gotten our hands on a specs list for AMD’s next-gen 7nm Zen 2 CPU series. According to the specs list you can see below, the $230 AMD Ryzen 5 3600x is going to feature 8 cores, 16 threads, and it’ll feature a boost clock of 4.8GHz. 

AMD Ryzen 5 3600x to Outperform Core I9-9900k (Official benchmarks)

Although AMD didn’t really mention their next-gen Zen 2 CPU series at CES, we did get some benchmark scores. According to AMD, an 8 core/16 thread variant of Zen 2 was able to score 2,057 on Cinebench R15 while the Intel Core I9-9900k only scored 2,040. AMD also revealed that the Zen 2 system only used 130w-132w of power while the Intel system used 180w of power. If the leaked specs list above is real, the Ryzen 5 3600x is going to be able to outperform Intel’s Core I9-9900k. Keep in mind that AMD used unfinished drivers in their test therefore, we’ll most likely get much higher scores when Zen 2 is finally released.

WHAT IF EVERYTHING WORK OUT FOR AMD THIS TIME

NEW Markets AMD has/will enter 2019-2020: mid and high end desktop CPU market, mid and high end laptop market, Entire workstation market, Entire professional desktop market, Entire professional laptop market, high end GPU market, Entire datacenter server CPU market low middle and high end, AI market, Embedded Market
+    Institutional Demand: Only 692 institutions own AMD vs 2789 who own INTC

The Ryzen 3000 series chips come with a radical new design, the chips will work with many of the optimizations for existing Ryzen processors. AMD’s first-gen Ryzen processors landed with a revolutionary new core design that initially led to lower-than-expected performance in some applications. Latency-sensitive applications (like games) suffered the most, but AMD made a concerted effort to arm software developers with the knowledge to tailor their code for the unique Zen microarchitecture, largely correcting the issue with the mainstream desktop chips. When Tomashardware asked AMD CTO Mark Papermaster if those optimizations would carry over to the new third-gen Ryzen products, which he confirmed. That means the Ryzen 3000 series chips will hit the ground running when they come to market.

The main difference between Intel and AMD in terms of horizons ahead

When AMD was finishing 2018 and entering 2019 we made a list all the bullish signs for AMD that maybe are unique to AMD and some of them still stand:

  1. Great Leadership – Dr. Lisa Su and team
  2. Architectural Design Brilliance in ZEN
  3. Chiplets/Modularity/Infinity Fabric for More Performance
  4. Modularity+Infinity Fabric for Less Engineering Cost
  5. Modularity/Infinity Fabric Enables Unique Products
  6. Zhongshan Subor gaming console in Chinese market
  7. Microsoft Xbox
  8. Sony Playstation 5
  9. AMDs new generation of laptops and desktop APUs
  10. Tesla has discarded Nvidia GPUs for its new autonomous driving hardware. It is rumored that the new hardware is using AMD hardware with custom Tesla designed elements
  11. TAM++ :  AMD is shipping products this year across a larger TAM than any of it’s competitors.
  12. Semiconductor design is like driving a semi-trailer
  13. 7nm Rome Epyc “Monster” : 32/64 cores/threads per chip
  14. 7nm Vega X2 “Monster” : 7nm Vega has Infinity Fabric and can be run with MULTIPLE Vega chiplets in one GPU.
  15. Security: AMD did not as much nightmares on the CPU flaws in 2018
  16. NEW Markets AMD has/will enter 2017-2019: mid and high end desktop CPU market, mid and high end laptop market, Entire workstation market, Entire professional desktop market, Entire professional laptop market, high end GPU market, Entire datacenter server CPU market low middle and high end, AI market, Embedded Market
  17. Institutional Demand: Only 692 institutions own AMD vs 2789 who own INTC

 

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