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SPECIFICATIONS
Frequency 3.6GHz
Turbo frequency 4GHz
Core Zen
Manufacturing process 14nm
Number of cores 6 x physical (12 threads)
Simultaneous MultiThreading Yes
Cache 16MB L3 cache, 3MB L2 cache
Memory controller Dual-channel DDR4, up to 2400MHz
Packaging AMD Socket AM4
Thermal design power (TDP) 95W
Features Precision Boost, SMT, SMEP, AMD64, FMA3, F16C, SHA, BMI / BMI1 + BMI2, AVX2, AVX, AES, SSE4a, SSE4, SSSE3, SSE3, SSE2, SSE, MMX
While AMD’s 8-core Ryzen 7 CPUs are certainly worth considering if you need the multi-threaded grunt provided by eight CPU cores, most of us don’t need all that parallel power. For the same reason, we usually recommend Intel’s K-series Kaby Lake CPUs for mid…
