AMD Summit Ridge

AMD Summit Ridge is the 8-core, 16-line processor for desktop PCs.

On August 19, 2016 showed to AMD the Summit Ridge processor with cores of Zen and disclosed details about its architecture on an action in San Francisco. The company managed to increase the number of instructions for one clock period by 40% on Zen cores that provided a processor capacity gain.

AMD Summit Ridge processor, (2016)

The processor for desktop PCs Summit Ridge on performance exceeded Intel Broadwell-E with a similar configuration at start of multithreaded software of Blender with identical clock rate of both processors.

As declared AMD, computing cores of Zen have several architectural improvements, they provide increase in productivity, capacity and efficiency of products of the company. The design of Zen is developed again and the chip has the upgraded hierarchy a cache memory, the improved prediction functions of transitions and support of simultaneous multithreading (SMT).

Often the engineer can get only once for all the career chance to work on the project of such scale and can face something that has such potential for the future which is put in Zen never. In a case with Zen we intend to make that many considered impossible - to provide to 40% growth of number of instructions for one clock period, saving at the same time energy consumption parameters at technological level of the previous generation. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and technical director of AMD

Summit Ridge processors will work at AMD AM4 socket basis – the unified platform compatible to the seventh generation of A-series AMD processors for the desktop PCs, earlier known as Bristol Ridge.

Deliveries of the PC with A-series AMD processors of the 7th generation and AM4 connectors will begin in the second half of 2016 within one of OEM projects.

Among the basic technologies supported by AM4 AMD platform:

• Memory of DDR4
• PCIe Gen 3
• GB USB 3.1 Gen2 10 / with
• NVMe
• SATA Express