Details about next year's AMD processors and videos

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Some new information has begun to circulate on the internet about AMD's plans for next year and even for 2019.

 

 

According to the charts that have leaked over the Internet in recent days, you can expect in 2018 to get an improvement on Summit Ridge, in the form of Pinnacle Ridge. It's not just a refresh, it's more what Intel did with the Tick-Tock method. Pinnacle Ridge will be built on 12 nanometers, bringing a performance boost to what we now see from Ryzen. The really new generation will only arrive in 2019 with Matisse. The processors in this series will use the Zen 2 architecture, and could be built on the 7 nanometer process.

On the part of APUs, we will have only part of the Raven Ridge next year, which brings us 8 Zen execution threads, no doubt with 4 physical cores, and 11 Vega processing units. These processors will be available for both desktop and laptop computers with the FP5 socket. In 2019 on the APUs we will have Picasso, a series based on Raven Ridge, but with rigorous improvements. Obviously, there is a nearly one year offset on the mobile side.

According to AMD's tests so far on such an APU, the name Ryzen 5 Pro Mobile, there is a notable performance boost to Bristol Ridge ... though not much in games, the graphics still being the limiting factor. But there is a big difference to an i5 Kaby Lake, both due to the additional execution threads and the superior graphics component.

As for video cards, in the fall of 2018 we will receive Vega 20, an extension of Vega 10. This new GPU will be accompanied by a new server platform, Rome replacing Naples and supporting PCI-E 4. But that only at the end of 2018.