Stefan Mileschin

This week at CES 2018, AMD announced that their upcoming Ryzen/Vega based APUs and Ryzen+ desktop CPUs will be available in early 2018. Last year at this time AMD was preparing to launch the initial Ryzen CPU based on a newly designed “ZEN” core, promising big leaps in IPC and power savings over the previous generation. They definitely delivered on that promise albeit with a few growing pains. It has taken most of the last year to work out the kinks but that can be expected with a fully overhauled platform.

AMD introduced many new technologies in the ZEN core, DDR4, which was AMD’s first foray into that field. They also introduced SMT (Simultaneous Multi-threading), Precision Boost and XFR, AMD’s version of Intel’s HT (Hyper-threading) and Turbo Boost. There were also a few firsts such as Infinity Fabric used to join two CCX (core compute complexes), along with Smart Prefetch and Neural Net Prediction which are supposed to help your CPU learn and anticipate your applications needs and route data accordingly.

http://www.overclockers.com/ces-2018...and-vega-apus/