AMD "Zen" Processors to Feature SMT, Support up to 8 DDR4 Memory Channels

[BiggieShady]

Theoretically, we could be looking at 50% to 60% IPC improvement, if not more.

Can't really say that because IPC is short for instructions per clock, so you can't count in potential clock difference and still call the metric IPC.
Nevertheless, I predict Zen won't be clocked higher than bulldozer (they went up to 5 GHz stock ffs) but much less power hungry and all performance gains will come from extra floating point units, shorter pipeline (lesser branch missprediction penalty), sound cache hierarchy, better instruction scheduler and memory controller.

 

[Super XP]

Can't really say that because IPC is short for instructions per clock, so you can't count in potential clock difference and still call the metric IPC.
Nevertheless, I predict Zen won't be clocked higher than bulldozer (they went up to 5 GHz stock ffs) but much less power hungry and all performance gains will come from extra floating point units, shorter pipeline (lesser branch missprediction penalty), sound cache hierarchy, better instruction scheduler and memory controller.

Fair enough.
Either way, hopefully ZEN pulls a rabbit of it hat an surprises us all.

 

[Super XP]

Hopefully we get some Samples of this Monster Chip that should save this company and bring them back into head strong competition. My PC is dying for a ZEN upgrade.

 

[Super XP]

Just seen it says supports 8 Channels. Does this mean the new ZEN will have Quad Channel Memory Controller or a 8 Channel one? Just Curious.

 

[Caring1]

8 channels is 8 channels.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Just seen it says supports 8 Channels. Does this mean the new ZEN will have Quad Channel Memory Controller or a 8 Channel one? Just Curious.

8 channels is 8 channels.

Calm your excitement guys, you won't be seeing 8 DDR4 channels in consumer parts, else AMD platforms would already be shipping quad-channel like the server parts (Opterons on Socket G34, since 2010) right now.