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Have you forgotten that AMD is still playing catch-up with Intel? They are still quite a bit behind Skylake(2015) in core speed.They might destroy Intel with this, but the truth is we won't know how devastating this line up is until 2020.
Bare with me: We all know Intel has nothing to respond with for at least 6 months...
Intel's Ice Lake(Sunny Cove cores) has been ready for 1.5 years already, it's just waiting for the 10nm process to reach high enough volumes.But they are a big enough company to withstand even this for that long. However if SunnyCove comes out and their top i9 can't even beat AMD's R5's... Then we will get an idea of how truly bad this is for them... Everyone in the future will look back on Zen 2 as AMD's "SandyBridge moment."
Skylake is quite a bit ahead of Zen in terms of IPC, and Ice Lake will push that even further.Furthermore Intel also states multiple times that they expect to use "multiple nodes depending on product type." To me that means Intel will launch a limited amount of 10nm laptop chips Q3/4, and Sunny Cove on desktop will likely be dual 14nm++++ dies "glued" together. Sounds like a massive power hog to me. 100w with 10 cores and an IPC deficit compared to AMD...
2019 is certainly going to be the most exciting years for CPUs for ages, perhaps since Athlon 64?I expect AMD to launch some Zen 2 AM4 chips by Q2, and as far as I am aware Intel isn't launching any SunnyCove till the very end of this year.
While I do expect Zen 2 AM4 to launch before Ice Lake, March-June vs. mid-to-late 2019, we don't know what kind of volumes AMD and Intel will be shipping.
And then there is the rumored Comet Lake, I don't see where it fits in, is this some kind of stopgap? A backup-plan? Or just plainly untrue?