>>63043398
>The fuck is this marketing speak
Ryzen's Zen architecture is a MASSIVE departure from what we're used to.
CPU architectures are normally designed around a single CPU die.
Ryzen was designed first and foremost for servers. The Server variant AMD calls EPYC.
The top Epyc CPU uses 4 CPU dies on a single chip all connected by AMD's Infinity Fabric. Each CPU die has 2 CPU complexes or CCXs as AMD calls them. Each CCX contains 4 cores. So in addition to allowing multiple CPU dies to communicate, the infinity fabric also allows the CCX's to communicate on each die. The faster the ram, the faster the infinity fabric runs. So on the Zen CPUs, ram speed directly affects how fast the CPU communicates with itself, which leads to massive performance increases as memory speed increases.
Threadripper is just an Epic CPU with 2 dies deactivated.
Ryzen 3, 5, and 7 is 1 die on a chip, with cores deactivated symmetrically on the 2 CCX's to achieve 4, 6, and 8 core variants.
Here. Have an Epyc Eclipse.