AMD says Ryzen is not a one-hit wonder

Joker Productions recently had an interview with AMD marketing manager Don Woligroski about Ryzen. Woligroski said Ryzen is definitely not a one-hit wonder and hinted AMD will keep the pressure on Intel in 2018 and beyond:

“Zen, Ryzen, was the worst case scenario, it was a brand new architecture on a brand new node, so it was the worst case scenario we could have possibly had and its pretty good. You can get over 4GHz a bit, we’re definitely working on improving, our engineers are really smart guys and things are looking better as we go along”.

The company is working on improving Ryzen and is cooperating directly with game developers in an attempt to raise gaming performance. Sometimes this results in a quick fix when there's something obviously wrong, and other times the company enters long-term cooperations like they're doing right now with Bethesda:

“Thats a double-edged sword. For games that are already released I think our focus is making sure if they have a problem on Ryzen processors, which some do you’ll see a big performance delta and be like ‘why? Ryzen’s pretty fast’ and we’ll go to the developer. We did it for Dota 2 and Rise of the Tomb Raider and we just find out what was wrong.”

As for future games, the process is a little different. Now that more cores and threads are more common, developers will begin building for that. However, the company “certainly have engineers” that get handed out to development teams to help them take extra advantage of Ryzen. An example of this would be AMD’s partnership with Bethesda, which saw Prey in particular optimised for more cores/threads.

AMD is currently working on a new generation of Ryzen processors that will be manufactured on the 14nm+ process, these are expected in early 2018. A bit further into the future we can expect Zen 2 and Zen 3, these architectures will be fabbed on a 7nm node. The Zen 2 lineup is probably planned for 2018, if it doesn't slip into 2019.



Via: KitGuru