AMD's new Zen APUs to deliver Xbox One/PS4 level performance in 2017

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AMD's next-gen Zen-based APUs will deliver Xbox One/PS4 level performance, arriving in 2017.

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Published Nov 25, 2015 10:34 PM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:03 PM CST

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AMD has been teasing its Zen architecture for a little while now, but the new Zen-based APUs will be packing quite the performance punch when they drop in 2017.

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It's said that we're looking at Xbox One and PS4 level performance, even when the Zen APU is found inside of notebooks - and personally, I think we might see it in VR headsets, too. Another exciting part of this news is that there's a rumor that AMD is working on a Zen APU that would feature High Bandwidth Memory, or HBM.

If AMD did this, it could really begin to make a dent in CPU sales for Intel, as people could choose a semi-powerful APU with HBM over a traditional CPU from Intel and DDR4 RAM.