Filtered several slides of the future of AMD, where you can see the company's plans in processors for 2018 and 2019, the arrival of Vega 20 in 2018 and the Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile.
Today Intel was being the protagonist, with the arrival of the Intel Core i9 7980XE and the leak very recently of the first review of the Intel Core i7 8700K. Well, now data has been leaked about AMD, specifically the launches for 2018 and 2019. These slides refer to the Pinnacle Ridge processors in 2018, which would be the revision of the current AMD Ryzen and the Raven Ridge, which will be the expected APUs with up to eight Zen and Vega processing threads with 11 Compute Units, designed for desktops and laptops, while in 2019 Matisse will arrive with the Zen 2 and Picasso cores, a review of the Raven Ridge with improvements in consumption and power .
We now jump to the graphics segment, no less attractive, where we see that in Q3 2018 the Vega 20 graphics cards will arrive, which, predictably, will arrive in 12nmLP. These new graphics cards may already use PCIe Gen 4, as seen in the slide, although there is nothing guaranteed in this regard. Before the Vega 20, different models of graphic cards based on Vega 10 should arrive on the market, but cut, there is talk of up to 13 models between gaming models and professional models.
The last filtered slide shows us the Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile, where they are compared to the Kaby Lake Core i5, without specifying much more. These Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile APUs will carry Zen cores and Vega graphics, which will be much better than the Bristol, the new AMD APUs that are very inefficient, since they use Excavator cores and Polaris GPUs. According to the slide, the Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile destroy the Kaby Lake i5 in processing and gaming, but according to this, the Bristol A12 beat Kaby Lake in 3DMark 11, something that seems quite strange, because it is not like that, in addition, it is see that the Bristol A12 consume twice as much as the Kaby Lake in Idle, charging must be a party.
Let's take this data with a grain of salt, just in case. We must emphasize that Zero computing, although it may be unknown, it is a medium that we know and they are professionals and serious people, so we have no reason to distrust them, although we are always cautious with any type of leak and more with AMD, which are usually quite inflated.
AMD is hitting it very well, it is said out there that the Zen 2 core would increase the IPC from 12% to 15%, hopefully so and that it becomes a good battle of microprocessors.
I have not seen information about it, but if so, I also hope that they can solve the details related to the OC, so that they can upload even more
«According to the slide, the Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile beats the Kaby Lake i5 in processing and gaming, but according to this, the Bristol A12 beats the Kaby Lake in 3DMark 11, which seems quite strange, because it is not»
The writer seems to suggest that since the current APUs do not compete with the Kaby lakes and in the slide he suggests that yes then it is false information and it is also false in the case of zen mobil. But it seems that he did not pay attention that where he has an advantage is in the GPU with the AMD graphics vs. lousy Intel graphics, but on Cinebench the Kaby lake has a big advantage over the Bristol, so the information is not false after all.
Core i5s are rarely purchased individually, without a dedicated graphics for gaming, because it doesn't make sense. The Intel graphics are not good at all, I know it first hand, because the graphics broke and I was more than a week without graphics due to the RMA, but I continued using the equipment without problems. What I don't like is that AMD launches Bristol Ridge, APUs based on Excavator and Polaris and as you can see, they have aberrant consumption and the processing performance is very poor, in gaming they are doing something well because they use Polaris graphics, but for very basic gaming . It is becoming a sport to hit Intel to the smallest, it does not matter and Intel offers solutions in processing much better than AMD and that of money, it is no excuse, because when AMD wants, it does things well, not perfect, but well .
In the graph it says exactly that Bristol ridge beats kaby lake in graphic section not in processing ... That is now known that Bristol ridge if it consumes more the same graphic says it is correct. No wonder AMD beats Intel in integrated graphics if it always has. Now the graph rather than look at the Bristol Ridge data is to look at the Ryzen results that if you see a qualitative leap compared to its previous generation.