AMD is already working on the development of AMD Ryzen 2 processors

AMD Ryzen processors have just hit the market and although APUs based on these processors have not yet hit the market, AMD is already thinking about the future, specifically Ryzen 2. During PAXWest, the company talked about AMD processors Ryzen, which have effectively been a problem for Intel and now the AMD Ryzen Threadripper are arriving. Despite the fact that the output of the AMD RX Vega is being quite negative, since there is a lack of stock and the excuse of mining, it is disassembled every time it jumps, because in the end, they are not useful for this practice.

Joker, an important YouTuber focused on hardware, has interviewed Don Woligroski, AMD Processor Marketing Manager and has taken the opportunity to talk about the AMD Ryzen 2, based on the Zen 2 cores, which promise to be better than current processors and who will have the mission to battle against Intel processors. Woligroski has also talked about the management of cores in games, an important topic, since currently most games do not manage more than four cores, but it is expected that future titles will make use of more than four cores.

Don Woligroski:

I've said this before and I think it's true. Zen, AMD Ryzen, was the worst case. It was a new architecture on a new node. So worst case scenario we could have had, and it's pretty good. You can reach over 4.00 GHz.

We are definitely working on improving it, our engineers are really smart and things are looking better as we go along. I can't go into details about the IPC, but it is an area of ​​focus. We have a margin in core speed that we can take advantage of and we have adjustments to make sure that the performance of each clock cycle is better. I really want to do it…

I am personally very encouraged by what is going to happen in a short period of time. We have launched it in 2017. We have seen our competitor start to wake up and respond and we are not just going to roll. We have more things to come, we have very good things on the way. We are not a one hit wonder, we will be keeping the pressure on for some time. It will be a great 2018. It was a great 2017 and we will see how things turn out.

Joker:

How does it feel to be back at the top in the CPU market?

Don Woligroski:

I can't describe how good it feels. I have been working at AMD for three years and I am a long time AMD fan. My first serious processor was a Duron

One of the reasons that I really like AMD and have come to AMD is that companies have their corporate mantras, but we really do as a company look at a segment and say what we can give to these people that they don't receive.

We can have an obvious purchase target because at AMD we give them a lot in this segment. And Ryzen really opened up our abilities to attack higher segments. We were very good with the tight budget segments for a while, but I really mean having something on top, like a high-end Threadripper, and at the same time delivering a bottom line by offering a better return per dollar invested.

In each segment that we are, we ask ourselves, What more can we give? And it's gratifying to be able to give that to the high-end segments. Where we are really good is in the economy segment, but I want to say that we really have something at the top, like a high-end Threadripper, and at the same time offer that the best end performance at the best price.

And the second rewarding thing is that game developers have to develop for the widest area of ​​people to get the money back. You can't make a game that requires 32 threads when there's nothing out there that offers it. If we can push the market to give everyone more cores and threads, then suddenly people start developing games with that in mind. It's like hey, it makes perfect sense to develop for guys who are running 8 threads, 12 threads, maybe we can do something special for them and maybe it will change the way people play in five years. That's the really exciting part of it. That is the best part of being on top.

Joker:

What are you doing to optimize, to make sure more game developers are taking advantage of more threads? What are you doing to get older games that are already out and future games to take advantage of them?

Don Woligroski:

For games that have already been released, our approach is to make sure if they have a problem in AMD Ryzen processors, that some will see a huge difference in performance, and you are like why? Ryzen is pretty fast and we are going to engage with the developer. We did it with Dota 2, Rise Of The Tomb Raider and we just found out what was wrong.

For future things, it's the chicken-or-egg scenario. When you have more threads and cores available, the guys will start developing for it. We certainly have engineers that we deliver to those who are developing games and our partners like Bethesda have been really great. They are such that how do we take advantage of this hardware ?, and we send the guys to say this is how you do it.

Here are some ideas and it's just a feedback loop. It just gets better and better. Finally we have the APIs, now you are going to learn how to use them. It is not an instant ignition. But then it is inevitable.

In the next few years you will start to see people do it, with great strides. And then it becomes the norm and everyone starts to do it. And so maybe in five years, it's 64 threads, who knows. It's that beautiful upgrade path that is for so long a tray that no one has been pushing hard. I think it will benefit everyone.

Source: wccftech