New AMD x86 Zen Blender Benchmarks Surface - Show Equal Performance To A 10-Core Intel Xeon E5 Chip

A benchmark of AMD's upcoming x86 Zen compages has been spotted on Blenchmark.com (a relatively unknown amass database for Blender tests). The test was spotted past this redditor and shows some very impressive performance if we accept the result at face up value. Unfortunately, the processor has no identifying information forth with it so it is impossible to determine which variant of AMD'southward Zen processor the results represent.

New blender benchmark of an AMD Zen CPU spotted in the wild - possible Naples variant

AMD's philosophy with the upcoming Zen architecture is one of consummate uniformity. The company will exist aircraft variants that scale (initially) from 8 cores for Superlative Ridge and up to 32 cores for the Naples processor. While the result is undoubtedly legitimate in nature, the lack of identifying information makes it very hard to judge the performance. To put it merely, information technology is very impressive performance for an 8 core but only decent performance for a 16 core and above.

The processor is listed as "AMD Engineering Sample" and is several positions above the Cadre i7 6900k – the octa-core processor the Summit Ridge variant was originally tested against. It manages the Blender run in 69 seconds – which is exactly the same performance equally an Intel Xeon E5 2680 v2 processor. This is a chip that has 10 cores! It is marginally faster than the Xeon E5 2650 v2 – which is an 8 core processor. Both of these feature relatively low base clocks (as is usually the case with Xeon chips) of 2.8 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz respectively.

The test date is approximately the aforementioned time that the official demo for Zen was shown but since we have evidence of Naples being gear up for testing quite a while before that, this does non prove annihilation. If this is indeed the viii core bit, and then its performance exceeds all expectations and blows away the competition. The but affair that will remain will be the price point and as you tin can expect a significant premium over AMD's usual value philosophy.

On the other, if this represent a Naples variant, it fits more than or less within the operation nosotros were expecting. Since Intel has had a meaning process advantage over AMD for quite some time now I exercise not expect Zen to shell Intel core for core, clock for clock. Nevertheless, we do believe that the Sunnyvale manufacturer will give Intel very real competition in terms of functioning per dollar – which is all that gamers are unremarkably interested in.

It is my conventionalities however (caution: opinion) that this particular effect represents a server class scrap, i.due east. Naples. This is because the benchmark was conducted in Windows 2008 Server R2 64 bit edition – an odd choice for a desktop variant. One would expect the Summit Ridge CPU to be tested on the latest OS: Windows x. Since we do not know the clocks at this indicate and engineering samples are unremarkably clocked low, this does go on to show that AMD can make a very large improvement in the server sector (if the toll signal is right). I am not going to go into whatever further speculation regarding the results since our readers can accept intendance of that themselves and volition end on the post-obit notation:

In either case, it is very refreshing to see competitive performance from AMD fries later on so long. Whether we are talking, raw performance on a premium or AMD's well known performance per dollar trick – AMD's compute side is back.

Source: https://wccftech.com/new-amd-zen-blender-benchmarks/

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