AMD RTG group received its first Zen 2 sample, 8C/16T at 4.5GHz

_mockingbird, a HardOCP Forum member with a history of AMD leaks claims the Radeon Technologies Group recently received its first sample of the upcoming Zen 2 processor. Made on the 7nm process, this sample has eight cores, sixteen threads, and hits a frequency of up to 4.5GHz.

In terms of performance, the Zen 2 sample is almost as fast as Intel's Core i7-8700K. The bad news is that it still crashes all the time, the current sample is far from stable.

The forum member claims RTG is getting early access to the sample because of some changes to some unidentified interconnect that require modifications to the video drivers, to make them work better with the Zen 2 processors. The forum post was published over two weeks ago, but wasn't picked up by tech media until this weekend.