Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
An article today says the AMD CEO indicated the AMD GPU will be mid-year and the "Zen" CPU will be at the end of the year. So, Christmas-time to 2017 for the CPU.
The article repeats that the CPU is expected to be 40 percent faster per clock than the current FX CPUs. They are aiming the first Zen CPUs at gamers
That being said, I expect Zen to have slower absolute clocks (my current 8 core FX CPU runs at 4.7GHz to 5GHz "stock clocks"). I hope the Zen "clocks" are close to current clocks. I hope we can eventually get 8 to 16 cores (I expect 4 cores at first and would like to be wrong about that).
