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.
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?
TSMC's 7nm for low power/mobile chips is not the same high power node(hpc) AMD will use for CPUs, but it is of course related. 7nm will probably be good in the long term, but there might still be speed bumps ahead. Just AMD's recent delay of shipping Vega20 until late Q1 2019 is probably a sign of yield issues. Don't be too surprised if AMD announces sometime this spring that the transition to 7nm will be more gradual, or that they launch something and they can only ship very small volumes.He is always all over the place.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day…
The dude 1st mentioned chiplets back in late June: that's way before anybody else, that i know of.
You dislike the guy and that's totally fine but just because you do doesn't mean he's wrong.
Not saying i agree with him myself, in this particular video: the pricing seems off because it would eat up Ryzen 2 sales a heck of allot and the clock speeds proposed seem a bit too much, IMO. As far as i know, and though the lower node does bring lower power requirements and more performance, i don't think AMD will get away with both @ the same time while ALSO having more cores, even with chiplets.
The 2000 series has been launched way too recently for it to be cannibalized this soon, IMO. The 1000 series should already be "fading away", though.
You should count yourself "lucky" as, over here, the prices are a bit steeper, especially with the 1000 series:
230€ for the 1700X and 330€ for the 2700X. It should vary somewhat, depending on where you live (country).
btw amd has been on attack mode for the last 2 years so that should be taken into account also.
Neither your previous, nor this comment make any sense.I'm only following for about a year and he has been spot on.
hardforum.com/threads/adoredtv-discusses-the-recent-amd-ryzen-and-radeon-3000-series-leaks.1973015/#post-1043970615
Amd/comments/a44f4b
A lot of us can make pretty qualified guesses which probably will come close to the end result, but still be purely speculation, that doesn't make it a leak.
I would remind people that AMD, Intel and Nvidia themselves don't know the final specs until they have a decent volume of the final stepping, which is usually ~2-3 months ahead of release. Try to keep this in mind whenever people spread rumors about future products. I do believe e.g. the next Threadrippers are far away, it's unlikely that AMD know the specific clocks right now.