Let us get into more detail! With these new processors, AMD is aiming towards PC gaming industry which is growing at a fast pace, multi-core processing which is great for game streaming, YouTube creators or 3D rendering environments such as Blender. DirectX 12 and Vulkan are new technologies that respond well to multiple cores and Ryzen was developed in order to serve content creators that means a competent IPC and very good multi-core scalability. For the mainstream users, going for an Intel solution which does sport more than four physical cores currently means a very big price increase, and this situation has created a serious limitation in the industry.

The new AMD Ryzen 7 1800X flagship CPU does feature the following highlights:

The new Zen microarchitecture from AMD does focus on four different areas: performance, throughput, efficiency but also scalability.

Regarding performance, the new Zen microarchitecture represents a very big leap in core execution capability versus the previous designs from the same company: Zen come with a 1.75X larger instruction scheduler window and 1.5X greater issue width and resources. This practically allows Zen to schedule and send more work into the EUs. Thanks to a new micro-op cache, Zen is allowed to bypass L2 and L3 caches when using frequently accessed micro-operations. The neural network-based branch prediction unit from the Zen microarchitecture does allow for more intelligent preparation of optimal instructions and pathways for future work.