The impact obtained by the processors
Introduction
This essay will be focused on making known the impact that the AMD company has obtained on the market with its processors line under the “Zen”, “Zen+” and “Zen 2” architecture, which arrived to cause competition to El RivalDirect Intel, who was who had the total market domain in desktop, portable and servers processors.AMD or INTEL? For many years the choice was clear, Intel has had the domain of the desktop processors market, due mostly to its use in the “gaming” section, where Intel processors came out victorious due to the frequency and architectures offered.
Developing
These demonstrated a better performance managingYour domain in the market. But not only was it superior in the "gaming" section, rather in most (if not all), as in the image processing or rendered videos, while AMD had a somewhat lower performance in the sections, and inThe American continent did not have much reputation for many years.
As stated earlier, Intel dominated the market, with its processors that went from the low range to the high range, which were the Celeron, Pentium, I3, I5, I7 and Xeon, although the latter were more designed to work on servers,While the other ranges were more thought about for domestic or work use, while that was Intel’s proposal, AMD’s response was his ATHLON, APU, and FX processors, what was the “range of range” series of AMD,that were designed to be rivals of the series "Kaby Lake" (I of Seventh Generation) of Intel.
But it was until a few years ago, more specifically in 2017 where AMD would announce its new series of processors, with new nomenclature and architecture, those announced processors were the series "Ryzen", "Threadripper" and "Epyc". The different AMD series were focused for different audiences, the “Ryzen” series was focused for domestic use and for the world of “gaming”, which is the one that has had the most impact in recent years in the computer processors section.
The Threadripper series is focused more for the world of architecture and design, since the characteristics of the processor allow it to unfold efficiently in that world. And finally the EPYC processors, which are focused for the use of servers. But what special architecture are special to differentiate it from the above? And should you represent any problem for Intel and its mastery of the processors market? The architecture with which these processors came out allowed them something significant that would put them fighting the Intel processors.
Before entering a comparison between both types of processors there are basic things that must be understood and explained below. The nuclei, are those that allow youCycle instructions;The threads are the subprocesses that each processor can handle, that is, as soon as the work can be divided for each processor.
The more threads the better;The clock frequency of the nucleus determines at the speed that will work, the greater the frequency, the more efficient the processor will be, but the higher the temperatures will usually be measured in GHz (gigahemercios);Cycle instructions, is the amount that the processor clock can carry, the greater the instructions, the better the processor will have. We will compare the Ryzen series against the “Kaby Lake” series (I of Intel seventh generation) due to its manufacturing process the cost was lower and had up to twice the nuclei than the Intel processors.
Which had 2-4 nuclei per processor, while the Ryzen processors had an amount of between 4-8 cores per processor, but, unlike the Kaby Lake, the Ryzen had twice as much threads in several of theirprocessors, which meant significant performance before Intel processors at that time, achieving a big difference compared to their predecessors, and temperatures? It should be remembered that the previous range of AMD range, FX processors suffered from very high temperatures.
Which made them require almost obliged a liquid dissipator for such a problem, but this time it is different;The Ryzen processors began dating some dissipators that to come from stock they fulfilled their work very well, and that had a better appearance in front of Intel, and that also dissipated the temperatures very well, and varied depending on the range that has beenAcquired, since there were several, they will order them from the lowest to the highest below, Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7;The latter would have the best appearance and the ones that worked best.
Returning to the theme of the new architecture, this new “Zen” architecture allows the creation of the processors in 14NM, in which it allows more transistors to have more transistors, and therefore the processor has greater efficiency;Due to the new manufacturing process, the creation of the processors is more economical compared to previous processes, since, it is a process in which processors are manufactured equally, but, not everyone comes out in the same way, sinceSome come out with "blocked" or non -functional nuclei.
And that way they are grouped, all are manufactured to have the 8 cores, but due to the process some come different and it is how the different denominations such as Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7. Next, a small image will be attached explaining and demonstrating how the Ryzen 3 is in a matter of its nuclei, the way in which its nuclei are divided is by nuclei complexes, it is divided in such a way so that it can accept the “dual channel” ofRAM Memories correctly, 4 nuclei are blocked from each nuclei complex, and each nucleus is manufactured with a defined “stock” frequency.
But with options to an overclock, which is to increase the frequencies at which the processor cores process information, increasing their performance, but also its temperature. Therefore, as all processors are manufactured equally, its manufacturing process is cheaper, in the same way as it happens with the Ryzen 3 processor, it happens with the Ryzen 5, several graphics are appreciated, in those above it can be seenHow AMD incredibly increased sales of its processors, taking as reference data obtained from an important German online store.
And it is also shown how the level of sales of each processor was, and it is possible to appreciate how the Ryzen 5 1600 almost reaches the level of sales of the i7 7700k, which generates a big problem for Intel, since its rival presented something significantAgainst them. With the arrival of "Zen +" things became even more complicated for Intel, since due to the success they had Ryzen’s first generation for AMD, many people were excited about the departure of these new processors. AMD today announced the global availability of its second generation Ryzen ™ desktop processors.
Starting with four optimized models for players, creators and hardware enthusiasts: Ryzen ™ 7200x, Ryzen ™ 7 2700, Ryzen ™ 5 2600X, and Ryzen ™ 5 2600 processors. Using the first 12NM process technology in the world, these Ryzen second -generation processors can offer up to 15% more game performance, than first -generation Ryzen processors, while offering the highest multiprocessing performance that it can obtain inA conventional desktop PC and improved capabilities.
In this way, AMD stated that its processors would have considerably superior performance compared to its first generation thanks to its “Zen +” architecture based on 12 Nm, both in “gaming” section and in different tasks. AMD also talked about its new architecture;“The new‘ Zen +’nucleus increases the CPI and reduces cache and memory latencies compared to first -generation Ryzen processors.”(AMD). These improvements announced by AMD were to demonstrate more technically the way architecture had improved compared to the previous.
And his counterpart responds with his processors "Coffee Lake" (I of 8th Generation), but who would win in the market?Taking as reference data obtained from an important German online store as was the passage of AMD from September 2017 to October 2018, in which in the months of September to November AMD surpassed Intel with its sales of Ryzen’s processors of FirstGeneration, but from April that it was the month in which its second -generation processors left the sales percentages were decreasing, although in June it fell compared to May.
But from July AMD it would begin to match and drastically overcome Intel in its sales. The main reason for this to happen is the advantages of INTEL in front, which were its price that was lower compared to Intel and that Intel high -end processors did not come with heat dissipators, while Intel’s brought an excellentDissipator model, which effectively fulfilled their work. Despite AMD considerably its sales still existed a problem.
Intel continued to dominate the most important market for this, the world of "gaming", because their processors offered a lower performance compared to those of Intel. Despite AMD to have excellent performance and quality, it was still inferior to Intel in performance, as shown in the image, it was lower in the section "Gaming", "Desktop", but slightly higher in the "Workstation" section. Which would seek to correct and decrease in its next line of processors.
"Zen 2"
The most current AMD architecture, “Zen 2” is currently the architecture that AMD uses in its 3rd generation processors, announcing its new line of AMD processors announced the following: *The new ‘Zen 2’ nucleus widely exceeds the historical trendof the generational performance improvement industry, up to 15% estimated increase in watch instructions (CPI) on the predecessor architecture ‘Zen’. The CPU ‘Zen 2’ CPU nucleus that feeds next generation AMD Ryzen and Epyc ™ processors also includes significant design improvements that include larger cache sizes and a redesigned floating point engine.
- The 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen family of desktop processors, including the new 12 -core Ryzen 9 processor, offers leadership performance.
- The AMD X570 chipset for socket am4, the first chipset compatible with PCIE 4.0 of the world with more than 50 new base plates in the launch.
- The RDNA games architecture designed to boost the future of PC games, console and cloud, it is expected to offer incredible performance, power and memory efficiency in a smaller package.
- The Family of Graphics cards for AMD Radeon RX 5700 7 Nm with high speed GDDR6 memory and support for the PCIE 4 interface.0. (AMD)
This new architecture brought several novelties, such as a new category of processors such as the Ryzen 9, a new chipset for socket am4, which would support PCIE 4.0 that would incredibly increase the data transfer speed compared to PCIE 3.0. But, in comparison of performance to his predecessor as I had improved, the improvement of IPC (cycle instructions) had caused a great impact on video game performance, and in the processing of 3D figures. The mono-nucleus of El Ryzen 5 3600x vs the i5-9600k.
The cost was similar and thanks to the improvements in the AMD cycle instructions managed to overcome Intel in this comparison between both processors models. Multi-nucleus of El Ryzen 5 3600x vs the i5-9600k, in which AMD’s proposal due to its 6 cores and 12 wires managed to overcome Intel’s proposal that consists of 6 cores and 6 threads. It is demonstrated as the Ryzen 5 3600x manages to overcome, although no matter how little I5-9600K, in the section in which Intel had no rival, the "gaming" section. (Both using a video card from the Nvidia brand).
AMD would end up destroying the Intel market according to the data collected by an important German online store. The previous and current sales results may vary depending on the store, but it is not a secret that at a global AMD level is dethroning Intel, and with just reason, but all this due to its architecture processes, many better and cheaper inmanufacture and therefore cheaper in the market compared to those of Intel.
conclusion
By meansAs in which a great effort of the processor is needed, it is more than obvious the choice, "Zen", "Zen +" and "Zen 2" arrived to mark a before and after in AMD and in the market, where the mostbeneficiaries have been consumers since for more affordable prices they can have computers with a very good performance.
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