Les processeurs AMD Ryzen 9 pourraient pulvériser les puces les plus performantes d'Intel
AMDâs Ryzen 7 and 5 CPUs showed real heart when they debuted earlier this year, with huge multi-core performance, price tags that undercut the competition by a big margin and efficient operation. They arenât quite as good as Intel chips at single-threaded gaming scenarios, but apart from that they are well ahead of the curve. Now there are rumors of a new, Ryzen 9 line that will take on Intelâs very top chips and based on their specifications, they could smash the competition.
The top-end Ryzen 9 chip is the 1998X and its slightly weaker counterpart, the 1998. They both sport as many as 16 cores, with 32 threads thanks to multithreadeding and can support DDR4 memory up to 3,200MHz. Thatâs almost 600MHz higher than Intelâs upcoming Skylake X Core i9 CPUs. They operate at a 5w lower TDP too, giving them an efficiency advantage.
Where the Ryzen chips arenât quite as impressive is in clock sped, with Intelâs top CPUs boosting to as high as 4.3GHz, while AMDâs boosts to 3.8GHz. However, with support for its extended frequency range auto-overclocking technology, itâs possible that with decent cooling the new Ryzen chips will go even higher.
As much as AMD is challenging the top-end â and could in some benchmarks, likely steal the show due to its added cores â its lower end chips are specced much more impressively than Intelâs ones. The Ryzen 9 1955X offers 10 cores and 20 threads, with 44 lanes of PCIE support, and a frequency just shy of 4Ghz. Comparatively, Intelâs Core i5 7670K from the upcoming Kaby Lake X generation, only offers four cores and four threads, with 16 lanes for PCIE.
Thatâs where AMD is really going to shine. It might steal the performance crown, but if it can undercut Intel on pricing slightly, it could take over the high-end enthusiast market quite succinctly.
[Remerciements Wikichip]