AMD’s Zen 3-Based Ryzen 4000 CPUs Will Reportedly Offer an Average IPC Gain of 17%

[Tsing]

With Zen 2, AMD managed to increase IPC performance by a surprising 15%. The latest rumors suggest that history will repeat itself.

Red Gaming Tech and 3D Center are reporting that Zen 3 will bring an average IPC gain of at least 17%. More specifically, integer operations are expected to see a performance increase of 10 to 12 percent, while floating point operations could improve by as much as 50 percent.

Clock frequencies are more of a mystery, but sources claim that the engineering samples for Zen 3's server parts (Milan) are seeing gains of 100 to 200 MHz. Red Gaming Tech points out that this improvement won't necessarily translate to the desktop parts, however.

Ryzen 4000 core counts will reportedly mirror the current-gen stack.

I dug a little more into core counts for Ryzen 4000, as early this year a different source had told me core counts would remain consistent, albeit with IPC enhancements. Two of the people I spoke to said that to their knowledge, core counts for Ryzen 4000 would match Ryzen 3000, if only for things like platform reasons too (you can make of that as you will, but likely memory bandwidth would be one big example).

 

[Uvilla]

So, ipc gains in part from even better infinity fabric, better io die and more cache?
Oh when, oh when will they have parts with hmb2 right on the package... A good top end 8 core with 16 gb hbm2 should be a beast for the ages... Yes high price, but tjat cuts ram cost.

 

[Grimlakin]

Uvilla wow.. I mean wow... component manufacturers and business partners of AMD would want to gut them for that. Ram sales are a major part of computer building. If you bring ram onto the cpu then you limit the ram and take that business away from business partners. A bad move on two counts.

Now 500ish meg of super speed on die memory... that's a different story.

This is exciting news and not from WCCF tech. So that's even a greater + in my book.

 

[Strelok]

I’ve been patiently sitting out Ryzen 3xxx waiting for this one, hopefully I can make it another 6 months. Nvidia will hopefully release their 7nm parts around then too so I can get a meaningful upgrade from my GTX 1080.