AMD Ryzen 4000 Rumored to Bring 15% IPC Uplift

[R0H1T]

You don't pay attention to AMD much but both Mark Papermaster and Forrest Norrad stated that Zen 3 (4000 series) would be a NEW architecture, NOT A REFRESH AND NOT AN ITERATION on Zen 2.

That's as vague as it gets, fun fact every major uarch since Conroe are said to be "new" & yet all of them are its evolutions!

 

[Xajel]

Zen 4 will likely be 16-core on one chiplet.

Nope, 8 to 16C is a big jump, While AMD stated that more cores will come, they also said that any core jump will only come when process technology and software can cope with.

And it doesn't also mean that the next jump will just double the core counts (making desktop CPU jump to 32C), personally I think Zen4 will still have 8C chiplet, total core count will stay the same, maybe the next jump will be with Zen5, and only a minor jump, like 10~12 cores per chiplet, and maybe AMD then will be able to afford having two CPU core chiplets with different core counts (like 8C and 12C) to serve different market needs.

 

[ARF]

Nope, 8 to 16C is a big jump,

They will use 1 chiplet instead of 2 chiplets which is a pretty significant cost and efficiency improvement.
16-core chiplet with Zen 4, I demand it.

 

[KarymidoN]

They don't have to bother with Intel anymore, to be honest. Intel is no competition right now.
They can and should up the game in the name of the progress - EPYC with 128 cores will be great, the consoles will get 16 logical processors, so mainstream getting 16-core and high-end mainstream getting 32 cores will be welcome for many.

After all, there are new use cases for this type of computing power - ray-tracing, improved physics, artificial intelligence, etc.
Everything feels better with more cores.

Long gone are the days of dual and quad-core processors.

Even today, most working laptops are insanely slow, dual-core with HDD ?! WTH?

Well who know, they probab looking to improve the Core/Die Quality not the amount of cores/die. but don't think they will act like intel and stop improving just because they don't have any competition, AMD saw how that turned out for intel, i Believe they will not make the same mistake and stop pushing to archive more cores and better performance.
I Believe AMD Won't commit the same mistake as intel did with their whole "lets keep on 14nm forever cause amd will never catch up"

 

[junglist724]

This is not newsworthy, it's just more speculation from the same "source" which promised 5 GHz Zen 2…

All improvements in performance per core will be appreciated, but let's not conclude until we have some real information.

It's also the same source that said rome/matisse would have an io die and multiple core chiplets. And also the same source that said there would be 16 cores on am4.

Yeah 3rd gen Ryzen doesn't quite boost as well as people expected, but it looks like the 4900HS regularly boosts 100MHz above spec so that might be something they're on their way to fixing.