Is Intel coming off the throne soon?

The relocation has already begun, with the selected partners now familiar with the second generation of Threadripper.

AMD recently announced that the launch of the Ryzen Threadripper 2900X, 2920X and 2950X is on track, with OEMs already starting to get to know the product - including the new cannon in the Sisoft Sandra database.

The second edition of the Threadripper brings the benefits of Zen +, meaning we can count on increased clock speeds and better IMC (memory control). Certainly, a slight refinement of the architecture will be enough for the 16-core 2950X built on it to take over the title of the most powerful desktop processor. In our opinion, AMD will officially announce the monster on Computex, and the start is still due in the summer.

The development of Zen2 is also good, the architecture is essentially ready, the developers can thoroughly test the chip in the coming months, as the company is once again making a bold pull on Ryzen's third generation: in addition to 7nm production, they will also make major changes. In the structure of Zen. If a stepping change can remedy the security issues that have come to light this year (Specter), this is likely to happen as well, because the product family is planned to be launched “only” in 2019.

The development trajectory of graphics chips paints a less encouraging picture: the Vega chip, planted at 7 nm, is due next year, which will be a really serious problem if the new Geforce series is released in the near future. Although the news is that fresh manufacturing technology will be a definite step forward (40% more performance), time is still running out over GCN funds, so at some points its lag may become more pronounced.

Source: guru3d.com