AMD is preparing to introduce Zen 3 based processors later this year, and consumers are craving for more information: Exactly by what means will they improve performance over Zen 2?
AMD Zen 3 will have 20% more integer performance than Zen 2
We already know a lot about AMD’s Zen 3 architecture. Since October 2019, we’ve been talking about Zen 3’s unified L3 cache, and in early May it turned out that Vermeer’s engineering samples (Zen 3 Ryzen) offered higher clock speeds than their Zen 2/Ryzen 3000 series counterparts.
Now sources at AdoredTV have stated that AMD’s Zen 3 architecture will focus on ‘integer’ performance, resulting in an overall performance increase of 10-15%. For some workloads, AMD Zen 3 processors are expected to deliver 20% more integer performance, indicating that the new AMD processors will have both clock speed improvements and an increase in IPC (instructions per cycle).
In the case of the EPYC Milan, it is said that the performance of single-threaded integers will increase by 20+%, the performance of 32-core integers by 20%, and the performance of 64-core integers by 15%. While it is curious that this performance increase tends to decrease as core usage increases, this could be a sign that the third-generation EPYC will show a more aggressive increase in clock speed for single-threaded workloads. Another hypothesis is that multi-threaded performance may be limited by communication bandwidth between AMD cores or some other factor.
With a unified L3 cache, higher core clock speeds, and increased integer performance, gaming performance is likely to increase significantly with Zen 3. Gaming remains one of Intel’s main advantages in the PC market, and this seems to be an opportunity to take the lead in this respect.
With Zen 3, it looks like AMD will solve many of the performance issues that have been holding back its Zen architecture from the beginning. We’ll keep you up to date.