Another lengthy Rumor/Speculation article about AMD Zen CPU (possibly out late 2016 in small quantity).

Basically, for example, Zen doubles FX8350 performance in a relevant CPU performance benchmark -- even though Zen clocks are slower.

Thing is, these articles are not crystal clear about what is being compared to what. The new Zen handles twice the threads as FX8350/FX9590. Its not clear if the huge Zen advantage is per core, or per thread, or per chip (twice the threads).

So, I'll remain cautious until more concretely clear and beyond question Zen data is available. Right now, I'm not exactly thrilled with what I read -- the only concrete data is that initial Zen engineering samples run much slower clocks than my FX9590.

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