Clocks will probably be about the same as now. It looks like there is a very significant process tech limitation for Ryzen on the Samsung 14nm LPP process. Add to this that the lower core count Ryzen will be harvested dies. There are no special dies for the six and four core parts as of yet. Although the CCX:es can't be too imbalanced, you'll wont get 1+3, rather 2+2. A single CCX could be interesting, but so far not something AMD has said they are doing. We will probably get die harvested APUs much later on (well after the APUs launch) that has a borked GPU but the CCX is ok. Not sure that will be better than die harvested Ryzen though.
Ryzen on Samsung 14nm LPP doesn't seem to clock high at all. The Stilt has a telling diagram in his technical writeup:
The Freq to Vcore ratio is great up to 3.3 GHz (almost linear) where it gets worse. Then you have a second critical point at 3.5 GHz. Then it gets much, much worse after that. 14nm LPP is very efficient up to 3.3, it will simply never clock as high as Intel's improved 14nm, as the latter is a far superior process.
High clocks just isn't for Ryzen, it is more interesting to look at low frequencies. The Stilt does that, very interesting numbers at low clocks. Very impressive performance at very low power consumption. Mobile/laptop chips will be good no doubt. But we won't get any high clocked desktop chips. This is also not something AMD can do much about, as it looks like it is a process tech limitation. Later Zen versions might have improvements, we'll see when Zen2, Zen3 etc comes around.
Also, isn't low power performance more important than really high clocked desktop parts? Laptops tablets etc is probably a much bigger market than high end desktops. Just like AMD seems to be betting Zen for servers too, Naples could make a serious dent in Intel's server sales. Performance per watt is important in server, and so is scaling over many cores. Looks like Naples have all that in spades, or at least it will be interesting again. So many years of only Intel gets borig, lol.
Thanks for linking the PCPer article @Marten , it is a very good one and I do believe Allyn when he writes that it took all day and that the whole team pitched in. Ryan also has added an edit at the top:
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-and-Windows-10-Scheduler-No-Silver-Bullet
Editor's Note: The testing you see here was a response to many days of comments and questions to our team on how and why AMD Ryzen processors are seeing performance gaps in 1080p gaming (and other scenarios) in comparison to Intel Core processors. Several outlets have posted that the culprit is the Windows 10 scheduler and its inability to properly allocate work across the logical vs. physical cores of the Zen architecture. As it turns out, we can prove that isn't the case at all. -Ryan Shrout