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If you like Zen2, you’ll love Zen3

(Source:  AMD) AMD created an extraordinarily good design with the Zen architecture in April 2017. You can measure that by the steady generation-to-generation improvements the company has made with Zen’s various derivatives. The latest iteration is the new Ryzens. AMD predicts a 19% improvement in instructions-per-clock (IPC) for the Zen 3 over last year’s Zen 2 design version. This improvement ...

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(Source:  AMD) AMD created an extraordinarily good design with the Zen architecture in April 2017. You can measure that by the steady generation-to-generation improvements the company has made with Zen’s various derivatives. The latest iteration is the new Ryzens. AMD predicts a 19% improvement in instructions-per-clock (IPC) for the Zen 3 over last year’s Zen 2 design version. This improvement is due to some fundamental changes to the CPU architecture. Instead of the classic, quad-core complex (CCX) with two CCXs on a single chiplet, AMD has created a unified CPU design with all eight cores sharing a large, single 32MB
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