AMD's next-gen Zen could arrive with 16 CPU threads for $300, and that would be awesome.

Alright... most of you will know that I'm beyond pumped for AMD and their next-gen Zen architecture, but there are some new details that have surfaced on the /r/AMD subreddit, and it has me even more excited.

Intel has been dominating the CPU world for what feels like forever, but when AMD does throw down - Thunderbird, Duron, Athlon X2 - it does it in a big way. Zen is the biggest stomping yet, with multiple things to be excited about. It looks like we can expect an 8-core/16-thread Zen CPU at around $300, which would be freakin' amazing.

Some of the bigger notes from the post is that Zen will arrive in a purported 6850K with 8 CPU cores/16 CPU threads for around $300. This is amazing if it's true, and I believe we are looking at this price bracket for Zen's higher-end SKUs. But then the tease that AMD's Hyper-Threading equivalent is something called SMU and that it's "******* good" with the "same efficiency as Intel's HT", should have everyone excited.

Even in gaming, the post says that Zen is "neck and neck" with Intel, "even at low res where CPU bound". As for clock speeds, as of August they were hitting 3.8GHz, but "right now" AMD is reaching 4.2GHz overclocked, and 5GHz+ using LN2. The samples will continue to improve until retail spec sampling begins to partners.

Zen details: