James Prior, Senior Product Manager at AMD, has been interviewed by the guys at Overclockers UK and has talked about the Raven Ridge APUs, the custom AMD RX Vega and Zen 2 with socket AM4.
The guys at Overclockers UK have been lucky enough to have James Prior, Senior Product Manager at AMD, as a guest. Unfortunately, in Spain there is no AMD marketing department or company representatives, there is only one company that carries the AMD communication and thanks for the tip, so it is impossible to have anyone from the company and ask them for things that would be interesting. Luckily, the conversation with the guys at Overclockers UK, has left us some interesting information about the Raven Ridge APUs, the RX Vega and the Zen 2 for socket AM4.
We start with the Vega 11, which will not be a graphics card itself, but will be an integrated solution in the Raven Ridge APUs. Specifically, this graphical solution will have 11 Compute Units enabled. So Prior confirms that APUs based on Ryzen processors will have 11 Compute Units. So far we only know the Vega 8 and the Vegas 10, with 8 and 10 Compute Units, respectively, and there will be a high-end model or models with 11 Vega-based Compute Units.
He has been asked about the RX Vega stock problems, which he claims will increase shortly, thus allowing retailers to adjust prices accordingly. We've seen a lot of custom model announcements over the past few days, indicating that custom model makers are either getting a lot of GPUs or might be on the way, so we'll see them coming to market shortly.
He has also talked about the AM4 socket, which he says will be functional until 2020. Prior also comments that the Zen 2 processors were already in development when the first Zen-based processors were unveiled. They want users to be clear about the process Tic-Tac and that Zen 2 is not part of Zen and that the Ryzen 2000 Series processors will be based on the Zen + architecture, which will have a reduction of the matrices and an optimization of the architecture. Zen 2 will be reserved for Ryzen 3000 Series processors. Support for these processors will be based on a simple BIOS update.
