lurker (lurker9000.delete@this.realemail.mail) on October 29, 2015 3:12 pm wrote:
> Regarding Zen performance, a guy who worked for AMD (at least his linkedin profile says that) and
> who, as he claims, worked on designing L2 cache for Zen and K12 said that their focus was to be
> competitive against Intel. He no longer works there but apparently his old colleague who still
> works there said Zen chips have already been tested and so far "it has met all expectation" and
> they "haven't found any significant bottlenecks". Apparently they haven't finalized the specifications
> for the clocks and TDP, but their partners in server market are "very excited".
> It's not much detail, but I think if there was a problem from having
> only 2 AGUs, it would count as a significant bottleneck.
> Also this is my first post ever, I just usually lurk here and this is the first
> time I have something useful to add to the discussion. Please no bully.

i can add that amd did testing on zen and recently they sent out some documents about zen to their partners. I am not sure but I think its about motherboards
I will confirm if I know more