At the beginning of 2017 when the long-awaited for PC enthusiasts, especially fans of AMD processors. Yes, this is the moment in which they release the high performance AMD next-gen! Of course, the processor in question is none other than AMD Ryzen.
AMD's track record going back many years, AMD released the AMD FX-series processors with architecture 'Bulldozer' in 2011. Their current flagship processor (FX-8150), which is known as the processor that has the highest number of cores on today's desktop-class with the 8 cores.
Unfortunately, the design of AMD has several characteristics that make it not very popular, such as:
- Number of cores much, but lower performance per core (aka the performance of single-threaded)
- Working temperature high enough
- large power consumption
- Performance per clock (IPC a.k.a, Instructions per hour) relative under other processors in the era.
FX-8150 which at that time had to compete with the Core i7-2600K 'Sandy Bridge', although it can pursue in some applications / benchmarks, got a 'stigma' bad PC enthusiasts who see that the 8-core processor made by AMD only has a slight performance Intel solution under which 'only' has 4 cores, but can process 8-thread with SMT technology (Simultaneous multi-threading aka HyperThreading).
At the time a lot of applications and games that underutilization of the number of cores that much, AMD FX design flaws more visible. Simply put, a 'core' processors must have a set of integer units, and a set of floating-point unit. Bulldozer has a different design, in which they have a 'CMT module' which contains two integer units ( 'core'), and a floating-point unit is divided into modules CMT. This makes AMD uses four modules to get the configuration 8 'core'. Unfortunately, with this design, FX has the integer performance was quite good when all the 'core' is loaded, but the floating point performance is relatively low.
Since 2012-2013, AMD did not renew the line of AM3 + FX processors and platforms with the new architecture. In the following year, they had indeed issued a revised 2 pieces of architecture, namely 'rollers' and 'Excavator'. Unfortunately both these architectures are not released for high-performance PC, but designed to be an APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), which is a CPU with integrated GPU strong. Milled 4 CPU cores used for AMD APU 'Kaveri' and Athlon X4 4 core CPU desktop while Excavator used for Carrizo APU and Bristol Ridge which was released just for notebooks.
AMD FX, the only high performance solutions from AMD, offered at a price that is more and more expensive each year, and platforms appeal to users who target performance multi-core processors are good at affordable prices (for based game API DX12 that utilize multi -core for example). However, predictably, finally, prefer Intel processor solutions for power efficiency and better performance.
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New in 2017, several years after AMD FX, AMD finally has an answer to deal with Intel in the segment of high-performance CPU, with an architecture called 'Zen'. Its own processor called AMD Ryzen.
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