AMD Zen CPU

[likeike12]

What kind of performance impact do you guys think this will have for dolphin?

[admin89]

There is no info or any benchmark yet . But it will not catch up with latest Intel CPU for sure
Hint : Bulldozer ruined AMD for good (terrible terrible single thread performance)
According to our official Dolphin Benchmark , FX8350 @ 5.0GHz is still slower than 4th gen Haswell i3 4130 @ 3.4GHz
If Zen was twice as fast as Piledriver in single thread performance , it would be able to compete with latest 6th gen Skylake from Intel .... but this is not possible

[KHg8m3r]

Its possible, just not feasible.

[likeike12]

Supposedly the Zen lineup is suppose to be 40% faster than the Excavator Architecture.

Seems like an interesting article: http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-cpu-8-core-summit-ridge-launching-october/

Although I don't know if all of it is accurate information.

[Alternity]

I have a FX-9590 and Dolphin only uses 2 cores on it (or anyways, only about 20% of my CPU's power), I doubt the ZEN will be any different.