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During the first quarter of 2017 AMD will be releasing their latest high-performance desktop processor, named Ryzen. The chip is based on AMD's Zen core architecture, and judging from the information released so far Ryzen looks very promising.
Read the full article at ZDNet, and check out AMD's press release here.
So what's special about Ryzen? A claimed increase of greater than 40 percent in instructions per clock, that's what...
...While all we have are demos to go on at the moment, Ryzen seems pretty impressive, with AMD claiming that a 95-watt TDP Ryzen processor at 3.4 GHz without boost can "match or outperform" a 140-watt TDP Intel Core i7 6900K ran at stock processor speed and boost when it comes to image rendering and video transcoding.
Read the full article at ZDNet, and check out AMD's press release here.