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AMD, lately unveiled its latest octacore, 16-thread Summit Ridge processor for desktops highlighting its Zen core in competition with Intel’s octacore Broadwell-E Core i7-6900K CPU. AMD for quite a time had been struggling to come out of stagnation.

Earlier this month in San Francisco, both the processors, similar in configuration, were put to test by locking at 3 GHz and multithreaded blender rendering applications were run. AMD's Summit Ridge outperformed the Intel processor.

Martin Reynolds, a distinguished analyst at Gartner mentioned, "They showed a benchmark where, under the conditions they set, they came up neck and neck with Broadwell, which is Intel's highest-performing chip."

However, "that doesn't guarantee you great performance," he added. 

Zen is loaded with a clean sheet design along with new cache hierarchy, better branch prediction and concurrent multithreading. 

It is noted by analysts that AMD under clocked the Intel Broadwell, which is clocked at 3.6 GHz, to match its Summit Ridge in the demo. AMD is expected to match or exceed the Intel clock speed when it puts the final version of Summit Ridge on counters for sale in early 2017.  

AMD also displayed the new 32-core, 64-thread Zen-based Naples server processor, in a dual-processor server running Windows Server, at the San Francisco event.

AMD plans to ship the Naples server in second quarter of 2017 and also an APU processor with integrated graphics for the mobile and small form factor in second half of 2017. Processors for the embedded market will include both CPU-only items and APUs.