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Last week, two Chinese sources revealed some details regarding the naming schemes and potential pricing of AMD’s upcoming Zen-based desktop processor lineup, codenamed “Summit Ridge”.
A forum post over on Chiphell, which has now been removed, revealed an AMD presentation slide with the names of three Zen product lineups – SR3 for the entry-level, SR5 for mid-range and SR7 at the high-end.
All priced higher than fastest AM4 APU
The presentation slide suggests that all Zen parts should be priced above ¥1,500 ($218), while a Maxsun email posted on Baidu last week suggests the high-end SR7 processors will be priced up to ¥2,000 ($290). This means all of AMD’s Zen chips are expected to be priced higher than its seventh-generation socket AM4 APUs, codenamed Bristol Ridge. The A12-9800 is currently the company’s fastest APU and has not yet hit the retail channel, but is expected to be priced similarly to the A10-7870K at $160 or higher.
Based on an early company preview, AMD’s highest-performing 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge “SR7” series processor is expected to be competitive with Intel’s Core i7 6900K Broadwell-E CPU, another 8-core, 16-thread chip selling for just over three times the price.
During a demonstration of Zen engineering samples back in August, AMD benchmarked its high-end Summit Ridge CPU against the Intel Core i7 6900K at an identical 3GHz frequency in order to show multi-threading rendering performance in the Blender render engine. At least in this benchmark, the sub-$300 Zen-based chip ended up slightly faster than its Broadwell-E counterpart, currently priced at $1,049. However, it is now being reported that AMD’s retail chips are expected to have base clocks anywhere between 3.15 to 3.30GHz, with a 3.50GHz Boost.
Last week, two Chinese sources revealed some details regarding the naming schemes and potential pricing of AMD’s upcoming Zen-based desktop processor lineup, codenamed “Summit Ridge”.
A forum post over on Chiphell, which has now been removed, revealed an AMD presentation slide with the names of three Zen product lineups – SR3 for the entry-level, SR5 for mid-range and SR7 at the high-end.
All priced higher than fastest AM4 APU
The presentation slide suggests that all Zen parts should be priced above ¥1,500 ($218), while a Maxsun email posted on Baidu last week suggests the high-end SR7 processors will be priced up to ¥2,000 ($290). This means all of AMD’s Zen chips are expected to be priced higher than its seventh-generation socket AM4 APUs, codenamed Bristol Ridge. The A12-9800 is currently the company’s fastest APU and has not yet hit the retail channel, but is expected to be priced similarly to the A10-7870K at $160 or higher.
Based on an early company preview, AMD’s highest-performing 8-core, 16-thread Summit Ridge “SR7” series processor is expected to be competitive with Intel’s Core i7 6900K Broadwell-E CPU, another 8-core, 16-thread chip selling for just over three times the price.
During a demonstration of Zen engineering samples back in August, AMD benchmarked its high-end Summit Ridge CPU against the Intel Core i7 6900K at an identical 3GHz frequency in order to show multi-threading rendering performance in the Blender render engine. At least in this benchmark, the sub-$300 Zen-based chip ended up slightly faster than its Broadwell-E counterpart, currently priced at $1,049. However, it is now being reported that AMD’s retail chips are expected to have base clocks anywhere between 3.15 to 3.30GHz, with a 3.50GHz Boost.
