AMD is slowly fulfilling its 2017 roadmap. With the release of Ryzen chips to be followed by Vega chips for GPU, Raven Ridge is slated to launch in the second half for mobile and 2018 for desktop. Reports suggest that the new APU will be composed of Ryzen chips for processor and Vega chips for graphics.
The release of Ryzen chips is the first step towards achieving the 2017 roadmap of AMD which was presented during the Game Developers Conference last February. Aside from the new set of CPU, AMD is also about to release Vega-based GPU and Raven Ridge APU before the year ends.
Since an APU is a combination of CPU and GPU, Raven Ridge is reportedly hosting four (4) Ryzen-branded chips for CPU and eleven (11) Vega chips for GPU. As a matter of fact, the enhanced Zen Cores in the APU will be adapted by en 2 in Pinnacle Ridge, WCCF Tech reported.
The GPU component of Raven Ridge is consists of 704 stream processors which help boost the performance integrated graphics processing better than the Bristol Ridge. The SKU of the new APU is also expected to come with quad core variants with four cores and eight threads, SMT enabled as well as AM4 and DDR4 compatibility.
Meanwhile, AMD does not reveal what variant of Ryzen to land in Raven Ridge which has two options: Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5. The former has eight cores, 16 threads, 3.8 GHz turbo clock, 3.4 GHz base clock, 95W TDP and uses AM4 socket while Ryzen 5 has lower specs and comes cheaper, Hardware Secrets reported.
On the other hand, Radeon Vega RX GPU cards offers more compared to NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti. Aside from the fact that Vega-based chips perform well in 4K than NVIDIA counterpart, AMD also claims that the 4GB of HBM2 found in the chipset s better than the 11GB of GDDRX5 of the competitors.
