AVX512

AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X has grabbed a top spot in RPCS3, a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator. The CPU outperforms all of its predecessors as well as rivals from Intel. RPCS3 gained AVX-512 support earlier this year, and AMD's latest CPUs based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture fully support AVX-512 instructions. AVX-512 support brings a 30% performance improvement to RPCS3, which is enough to make AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X the most powerful CPU to emulate PS3 using this emulator. Evidently, increased…

Ryzen 7000 is launching later this month, and we're starting to see benchmarks of official Ryzen 7000 chips in the wild. But with the introduction of AVX512 on Zen 4, the new Geekbench benchmarks inflate Ryzen 7000's average performance estimates over Zen 3 chips to seemingly absurd levels.@Benchleaks on Twitter shared a new Ryzen 9 7950X Geekbench 5 score that shows very impressive gains for the Zen 4 architecture over Zen 3.The test bench for this new Geekbench 5 result featured a 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X Zen 4 chip with…

In multiple interview sessions on Thursday, AMD director of technical marketing Robert Hallock answered many questions from journalists and tech enthusiasts. One such interview, part of the 2.5 Geeks series from Hot Hardware, is embedded below for your convenience. For us, the highlights from this hour-long technical discussion were Hallock's confirmations of launch core-counts (53:21), that there are new Threadrippers coming (7:59), and the heavy hint of Ryzen 7000's support for AVX-512 instructions (46:38).AMD's…