Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
I click through several sites a couple times a day. Lots of questionable rumors lately. I haven't bothered anyone with those. This one seems to have some credibility (but still a rumor):
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AMD Zen 3 CPUs Allegedly Features 17% IPC Gain Over Zen 2 Architecture, Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ CPUs to Feature Huge Performance Upgrade Over Ryzen 3000
AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs with Zen 3 Cores Allegedly Feature 50% Increase in Floating Point, 17% Increase in IPC Performance
According to AMD themselves, the Zen 3 design brings an entirely brand new CPU architecture, Significant IPC Gains and Faster clocks than ever seen before
in floating-point heavy applications, Zen 3 has the potential to be a big game-changer for the industry and especially the server market
The AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs and X670 platform is expected to arrive by the end of 2020.., but we have to wait and see.
When asked about 32 cores for desktop users (like us):
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"In the near term, I don’t see a saturation point for cores. ..."