Hardware: AMD’s moment of Zen: Finally, an architecture that can compete | Ars Technica

AMD’s moment of Zen: Finally, an architecture that can compete | Ars Technica: "Before the company's new Zen offerings, it's fair to say that AMD's last attempt at building a performance desktop processor was not tremendously successful.

The Bulldozer core released in 2011 had a design that can, at best, be described as idiosyncratic. AMD made three bets with Bulldozer: that general purpose workloads would become increasingly multithreaded, that floating point intensive workloads would become increasingly GPU-driven, and that it would be able to aggressively scale clock speeds."



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