Hardware

Zen architecture

Türkçe: Zen mimarisi

The family of microarchitectures AMD introduced with Ryzen in 2017 that rebalanced the processor market through chiplet design and high IPC.

// EXPLANATION

With every generation Zen brought higher IPC, better energy efficiency and a scalable CCD/I/O die structure. The same core design is used across desktop (Ryzen), server (EPYC) and laptop products.

// ALSO KNOWN AS

Zen architectureZenZen 5

// RELATED TERMS

IPC (instructions per cycle)A measure of how many instructions a processor completes on average in each clock cycle. ChipletA design approach that splits a processor into several small silicon dies combined in one package instead of one large die. AM5 socketThe LGA-type processor socket AMD introduced with Ryzen 7000 in 2022, supporting only DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. Cache memoryA small, fast intermediate memory (L1, L2, L3) from which a processor can reach frequently used data far faster than from main memory.

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