AMD Demonstrates Silent Wraith Cooler And Makes Single Zen Socket

AMD announced its new stock cooler called Wraith at CES and announced that CPUs and APUs based on the Zen architecture will use the same socket. The company also demonstrated the efficiency of new Polaris GPUs.

The Wraith cooler with 80mm fan blades and backlighting should distinguish itself from the current stock cooler for AMD FX processors, the AMD D3, with its quiet operation. According to AMD, the Wraith has a 24 percent larger surface area of ​​​​the cooling fins compared to the AMD D3. In addition, the cfm value, a measure of the air to be moved in cubic feet per minute, is 55.78 to 34 percent higher than the 41.6 cfm of the predecessor. This would result in a noise production of 39dBA, less than a tenth of that of the predecessor.

AMD also announced that socket AM4, the socket for upcoming chips based on the Zen architecture, can be used by both the APUs and the CPUs. AM4 thus succeeds AM3+, FM2+ and AM1 as a single socket. Both the Zen apus and the processors are socs and support ddr4. The code name for the Zen CPU is Summit Ridge and that of the Zen Apu is Bristol Ridge, the announcement further revealed.

Finally, AMD demonstrated the difference in power consumption of the upcoming Polaris GPU versus the GeForce GTX 950. At Star Wars: Battlefront at 1080p and at 60fps, the Polaris GPU system drew 86.1W, while the Nvidia system drew 161W. would consume. Whether the difference compared to older cards will actually become that great will have to become apparent in practice when the cards with Polaris GPU appear.