In recent days, actively discussed the characteristics of 7-nm processors AMD Ryzen 3000 families Matisse, which will soon offer Zen architecture 2. Existing engineering models, according to data from sources informal, able to offer 16 nuclei over frequency 4.0 GHz, but a twelve-core processor with a higher frequency limit is also mentioned. When the Matisse processor sample was first demonstrated by Lisa Su (Lisa Su) at January CES 2019, AMD head, confirmed, that future models may have more than eight cores, but didn’t give specific numbers.
The popular channel RedGamingTech took on the task of raising the level of emotional tension., which clarified several technical features of not only processors with Zen architecture 2, but also their successors with Zen architecture 3. Recently, the head of AMD confirmed, that the company has managed to make significant progress in the development of Zen 3, therefore it cannot be ruled out, that some details about the corresponding processors are already known.
Let's emphasize, that everything voiced by the RedGamingTech channel is based on rumors, and therefore can be taken on faith with significant reservations. Let's list the main revelations, which sounded in the next news release of this source:
- The twelve-core Matisse processor will be able to dynamically increase frequency up to 5,0 GHz. How many cores will remain active?, not specified.
- Architecture AMD Zen 3 will allow the creation of processors, capable of processing up to four threads per core. Not all models will have this feature.. Source suggests, that the maximum number of threads per core will be offered by EPYC Milan generation server processors, for consumer models the number of threads per core will be reduced to two or three. Four threads per core were already supported by IBM server processors and Intel Xeon Phi compute accelerators, so the idea itself is not new.
- It is proposed to increase the volume of the first level cache, to improve the efficiency of the kernel processing four threads simultaneously.
- In light of the emergence of 7nm AMD Ryzen processors with 12 and 16 the timing of the announcement of the third generation Ryzen Threadripper processors remains in question. Their predecessors already offer up to 32 cores, a further increase in their number in the consumer sector is not so relevant, therefore, for now AMD is thinking about a strategy for promoting the new generation of Ryzen Threadripper on the market.
- Zen architecture processors 3 after adaptation to the needs of Microsoft, they can register in the next generation Xbox game console. Development Kits, if you believe the rumors, are already starting to spread, and this allows us to confirm the presence of support for three threads per core, least.
- AMD processors with Zen architecture 3 you may also get a fourth-level cache memory with a volume 1 GB, which will be integrated as a separate tier. Intel recently talked about the spatial arrangement of heterogeneous processors, but AMD has also been nurturing similar ideas for a long time.
