Wednesday, March 7th 2018
AMD Ryzen 2000 Series "Pinnacle Ridge" Roadmap Leaked
Ahead of its launch product roadmap of AMD's next-generation performance-thru-enthusiast segment socket AM4 processors, was leaked to the web. It indicates that AMD could launch its next-generation Ryzen 2000-series "Pinnacle Ridge" processors with no more than four SKUs initially. These include the top-dog Ryzen 7 2700X, followed by the Ryzen 7 2700; the Ryzen 5 2600X, and the Ryzen 5 2600. Both Ryzen 7-series SKUs are 8-core/16-thread chips, while both Ryzen 5-series SKUs are 6-core/12-thread. There's also pricing for each of the four. The clock-speeds are also revealed below.
The Ryzen 7 2700X is being launched at a SEP of USD $369, and positioned against Intel Core i7-8700K. This is followed by the Ryzen 7 2700 being priced at $299, and fielded against Intel's multiplier-locked Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 2600X is, obviously, positioned against the Core i5-8600K, and priced at $249; while the Ryzen 5 2600 is priced at an attractive $199, and looks to disrupt several of Intel's Core i5 6-core SKUs around its price-point. Unlike many of Intel's SKUs, all AMD Ryzen chips feature unlocked multiplier, SMT, and a cooling solution. That's right, even the top-dog 2700X and 2600X include coolers, as opposed to their predecessors. The 2700X includes AMD's new Wraith Prism, while the 2600X and the other two SKUs include a Wraith Spire.
The Ryzen 7 2700X is the first socket AM4 SKU with 105W TDP. It features the highest clock speeds for the series, with 3.70 GHz nominal and 4.35 GHz boost clocks. The 2700 (non-X) is clocked at 3.20 GHz, with 4.10 GHz boost. The 2600X is clocked between 3.60~4.25 GHz, and the 2600 non-X between 3.40~3.90 GHz. One of the slides even confirms that the new AMD 400-series chipset still lacks PCI-Express gen 3.0 general-purpose lanes, leaving us to wonder what's the point behind that whole endeavor.
The slides confirm that the new chips are based on the new 12 nm silicon-fabrication process. There are some under the hood microarchitecture improvements, although the CPU core design is essentially the same (Zen). Improvements have been made to Precision Boost. The new Precision Boost 2 feature includes more fine-grained clock adjustments based on load and power. The new XFR 2.0 algorithm is even more temperature-aware in addition to power-draw aware, in serving up clock speeds beyond the boost frequency. The Precision Boost Overdrive mode pushes the boost clock to the absolute limits of the motherboard and CPU.
Sources:
El Chapuzas Informático, Informatica Cero
The Ryzen 7 2700X is being launched at a SEP of USD $369, and positioned against Intel Core i7-8700K. This is followed by the Ryzen 7 2700 being priced at $299, and fielded against Intel's multiplier-locked Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 2600X is, obviously, positioned against the Core i5-8600K, and priced at $249; while the Ryzen 5 2600 is priced at an attractive $199, and looks to disrupt several of Intel's Core i5 6-core SKUs around its price-point. Unlike many of Intel's SKUs, all AMD Ryzen chips feature unlocked multiplier, SMT, and a cooling solution. That's right, even the top-dog 2700X and 2600X include coolers, as opposed to their predecessors. The 2700X includes AMD's new Wraith Prism, while the 2600X and the other two SKUs include a Wraith Spire.
The slides confirm that the new chips are based on the new 12 nm silicon-fabrication process. There are some under the hood microarchitecture improvements, although the CPU core design is essentially the same (Zen). Improvements have been made to Precision Boost. The new Precision Boost 2 feature includes more fine-grained clock adjustments based on load and power. The new XFR 2.0 algorithm is even more temperature-aware in addition to power-draw aware, in serving up clock speeds beyond the boost frequency. The Precision Boost Overdrive mode pushes the boost clock to the absolute limits of the motherboard and CPU.
31 Comments on AMD Ryzen 2000 Series "Pinnacle Ridge" Roadmap Leaked
Id like to see a Threadripper+ Part
If these were real AMD slides, then they should be charged as commercial FRAUD. I doubt the credibility of this leak, or someone in AMD is real nut.
Also there are countless sites covering the x470 chipset from january stating that it will change the pci-e 2.0 hub to pci-e 3.0
In my opinion these slides are fake with a lot of info that are possibly true (names, clock speed, cache, etc...)
Stoney Ridge like Bristol will make do with Raven Ridge as a successor so you will have to get used to that.
Unless of course you want something worse than 2200U which I can't imagine anyone would.
However there isn't a single laptop with Ryzen in it worth buying. Not yet anyway.
Perhaps upcoming ThinkPad or Elitebook are worth looking into but I suspect that isn't what you're looking for although you did not tell me what exactly you're looking for.