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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

AMD Ryzen 7 desktop chips are now available for pre-order [anandtech.com], and will be released generally on March 2nd. The cheapest "Ryzen 7" 8-core chip will be $329, but has 16 threads just like the $399 and $499 versions (there had been some concern that it might not have multi-threading).

AMD held a "Tech Day" to share details about its new chips. Over the past year or two, AMD has said that their goal was to improve instructions per clock (IPC) by 40% with Zen/Ryzen. Now they are saying that they have achieved that... by improving IPC by 52%. It's an impressive number that would not have been possible had Ryzen's predecessor, the Bulldozer architecture, been competitive with Intel's CPUs. However, keep in mind that comparisons to Bulldozer and Intel's CPUs are still based on information provided by AMD.

The 8-core design features 4.8 billion transistors and "200m of wiring".

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