One of the things the new Ryzen Zen 4 architecture will do is incorporate the AVX-512 instruction set into its processors. Smart Ray Tracing and more on the horizon?

Of all the claims that AMD made during it's presentation, this is the one I'd like to be true more than just about any other. You could set your system settings to lower power consumption and get what is still outstanding performance. Having used Ryzen 5000-series chips fairly extensively, this is no small thing. AMD claimed that you could get the same performance out of a Zen 4 processor for up to roughly 62% of the power as you could from a Ryzen 5000-series chip, or you could get a boost of up to nearly 50% for the same amount of power as an existing 5000-series chip. What's more, AMD made a very big deal out of its gains in energy efficiency with this processor generation, owing mostly to the 5nm process. For one, it drives up the costs of these processors and given the current cost-of-living crisis in the UK and Europe over the cost of energy and the broader global inflationary environment, the last thing anyone wants to see is prices rising even more than they already have.įortunately, AMD is keeping prices in check as for as any increases go (these are still pretty expensive chips, after all), but it bodes well that prices have stayed flat or even dipped a bit.

I recently wrote that the performance arms race between chip makers was ultimately a bad thing, both for consumers and the environment, and I'm very hopeful that AMD took my criticism to heart. One of the more exciting claims AMD made during its presentation is that thanks to the chips being fabbed on a 5nm node, there have been substantial gains in processor efficiency.

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