AMD Ryzen 2nd Generation CPU Appears in Benchmark Database

The AMD Ryzen 5 2600, a second-generation Ryzen CPU, has appeared in the SiSoft Sandra benchmark database. The specification mentions a clock speed of 3.4GHz, 200MHz more than the current Ryzen 5 1600.

The turbo frequency, according to the registration in the SiSoft Sandra database, is 3.8GHz, which is 5.6 percent higher than the 3.6GHz that the Ryzen 5 1600 runs on in turbo mode. The chip is probably an engineering sample and it is therefore not certain whether the clock speeds are final. The Ryzen 5 2600 is the second-generation Ryzen processors. AMD announced these in January during CES and already indicated that the first chips should appear in April 2018.

AMD produces the second generation on a 12nm instead of 14nm process from GlobalFoundries, which probably allows higher clock speeds with the same consumption. In addition, the generation will receive support for Precision Boost 2, which sees whether there is room for higher clock speeds, regardless of the amount of threads the CPU is working on.

AMD also mentioned the presence of Zen+ cores at the announcement. The manufacturer therefore seems to have applied optimizations to the Zen cores. Hardware.Info speculates based on an analysis of SiSoft benchmark results that the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 shows a speed increase of up to nine to ten percent in parts compared to the Ryzen 5 1600, which indeed seems to have made more improvements than just higher clock speeds. The other chip specifications are identical; the Ryzen 5 2600 has six cores with twelve threads, 512kB L2 cache per core and 16MB L3 cache. AMD will also release the X470 chipset in April, which is optimized for the second-generation Ryzen.