Wednesday, December 5th 2018
AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen Probable SKUs, Specs, Pricing Leaked?
One of our readers tipped us off with a very plausible looking image that drops a motherlode of information about what AMD's 2nd generation Ryzen (aka Ryzen 3000 series) processor lineup could look like. This includes a vast selection of SKUs, their CPU and iGPU core configurations, clock-speeds, and OEM channel pricing. The list speaks of a reentry for 7th generation A-series "Excavator" as Duron X4 series, followed by Duron 300GE-series based on a highly cut down "Raven Ridge," Athlon 300GE 2-core/4-thread based on an implausible "Zen+ 12 nm" APU die, followed by quad-core Ryzen 3 3000 series processors with and without iGPUs, making up the company's entry-level product lineup.
The core counts seem to jump from 4-core straight to 8-core, with no 6-core in between, for the Ryzen 5 series. This is also where AMD's new IP, the 7 nm "Zen 2" architecture, begins. There appears to be a large APU die (or a 3-chip MCM) with an 8-core CPU and 20-CU iGPU, which makes up certain Ryzen 5 SKUs. These chips are either 8-core/8-thread or 8-core/16-thread. The Ryzen 7 series is made up of 12-core/24-thread processors that are devoid of iGPU. The new Ryzen 9 series extension caps off the lineup with 16-core/32-thread SKUs. And these are just socket AM4.3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors will be client-segment derivatives of the EPYC "Rome" MCMs, which combine up to 64 cores across 8-core 7 nm CPU chiplets with an I/O die handling a monolithic 8-channel memory interface and PCIe. Threadripper SKUs begin at 24-core/48-thread, and go on to include 32-core/64-thread, 48-core/96-thread, and 64-core/128-thread, across X and WX SKUs.
The OEM-channel pricing for all these SKUs seem to linearly succeed the current product stack, with the addition of newer SKUs that have no predecessors taking up gaps in the price-points.
At this point, this picture is either a motherlode of information or some fanboy's wet-dream, and TechPowerUp takes no responsibility for its accuracy.
The core counts seem to jump from 4-core straight to 8-core, with no 6-core in between, for the Ryzen 5 series. This is also where AMD's new IP, the 7 nm "Zen 2" architecture, begins. There appears to be a large APU die (or a 3-chip MCM) with an 8-core CPU and 20-CU iGPU, which makes up certain Ryzen 5 SKUs. These chips are either 8-core/8-thread or 8-core/16-thread. The Ryzen 7 series is made up of 12-core/24-thread processors that are devoid of iGPU. The new Ryzen 9 series extension caps off the lineup with 16-core/32-thread SKUs. And these are just socket AM4.3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper processors will be client-segment derivatives of the EPYC "Rome" MCMs, which combine up to 64 cores across 8-core 7 nm CPU chiplets with an I/O die handling a monolithic 8-channel memory interface and PCIe. Threadripper SKUs begin at 24-core/48-thread, and go on to include 32-core/64-thread, 48-core/96-thread, and 64-core/128-thread, across X and WX SKUs.
The OEM-channel pricing for all these SKUs seem to linearly succeed the current product stack, with the addition of newer SKUs that have no predecessors taking up gaps in the price-points.
At this point, this picture is either a motherlode of information or some fanboy's wet-dream, and TechPowerUp takes no responsibility for its accuracy.
81 Comments on AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen Probable SKUs, Specs, Pricing Leaked?
Just think of this scenario:
Video editing company that works in a small environment and is tired of having computers everywhere to edit potentially 4k/8k footage.
With something like this 3990WX (64c/128t) they could have 8VMs running EACH 8c/16t v-CPUs and 32GB of RAM... Assuming a similar amount of PCIe lanes to the previous gen, each GPU would have 8x connectivity... a nice rtx2070 would do the trick here...
Just imagine this... I know Linus already did this BUT with a dual xeon motherboard! this is all in one chip!
Just remanage it a bit and you could also have a spare for a freeNAS instance locally and SMB shares for each VM... all in what could be a 3u chassis in a rack somewhere in another room...
This is a potential usage I would think...
Me I just hope those Durons are real and they do support overclocking. They would absolutely destroy the price/performance graphs.
Look at those Threadrippers, higher core count, but also much much higher clock speed?
If 64 core BASE 5Ghz speed doesn't smell fake, then nothing does.
forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technical.2500572/
So the transition for AMD to 7nm will be a larger jump in density than Intel to 10nm, despite the maximum density of Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm is fairly comparable. And we still don't know the performance characteristics of the new nodes, which is important for clockspeed and so on, and this could go either way.
Also, amd will deny anything at this point.
So weird to use the third person when talking about yourself! Ha!