Colleagues from the WCCFTech site took on the job of reviewing the interview of Don Woligroski, who at AMD leads the marketing of desktop processors and platforms, recorded by colleagues from Joker Productions during the PAX West event.
The base for the headline news was statements about AMD expectations associated with the release of processors with the architecture of Zen 2. The first generation of Ryzen processors, according to Don Voligrosky, combined not the most favorable conditions for a breakthrough in productivity: the new architecture was laid on a new process technology. And nevertheless, these processors are capable of conquering the frequency of 4.0 GHz. The subsequent processors will improve not only the frequency potential, but also the specific productivity in terms of the clock. AMD engineers are now working hard on this.
AMD believes that the saturation of the market with processors with a large number of cores will create a trend according to which game developers will begin to optimize their products for multi-core processors. Let it not give an immediate effect, but in a few years it will change the game industry beyond recognition. Five years later, as the Voligrosky reasoned, 64 threads can become the norm. Now the developers of games are actively working, and processors with six and eight cores will soon be able to demonstrate their advantages in this area.