AMD Roadmap Update for 2022-2017 - AMD's Mainstream Zen 'Summit Ridge' Platform Market Availability in 2022

Something pretty interesting turned up on SemiAccurate Forums. A user has posted what appears to be the official road map for AMD's processors. The leaked slides detail not only the Mainstream side of AMD's processor road map for 2022 and 2022 but also the mobility side of things. It serves as farther confirmation of not only what we have been hearing whispers of so far but also fits closely to what our internal sources have indicated and fifty-fifty what Lisa SU has hinted at.

AMD Roadmap for 2022 - 2022 leaked: Zen Mainstream Desktop Processors will striking the shelves in 2022

The first roadmap details AMD's mobility and All-in-One efforts. Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge are both slated for this yr on the 28nm process and have already started their life on the shelf. The Bristol Ridge platform features upto four Excavator cores and 8 GCN cores with a configurable TDP of 10W to 35W. Similarly Stoney Ridge, which is like a Bristol Ridge cut in half, will rock two Excavator Cores and 3 GCN cores with configurable TDP of 10W - 25W. Both of these products are expected to last till 2022 and come in FP4 packaging.

The FP5 based Raven Ridge volition be based on the 14nm SoC and will feature iv Zen cores (which considering the compages has SMT, translates to viii threads) every bit well as 12 Next Generation GCN cores. This is going to be a animate being of an APU and will be coming in transfigurable TDP of 4 to 35Ws. The scheduled release for this platform is prepare firmly in 2022 according to the roadmap.

Raven Ridge is the powerful platform which volition bring Zen cores to the mobility side of things in 2022.

The 2d roadmap and the one more interesting - is about AMD's Desktop side of things. First thing y'all will notice is that the Bristol Ridge roadmap is queued for the 2022-2017 time frame as well - yet we have not seen any of the APUs out in the open as of notwithstanding. Based on the promontory chipset, these APUs require the AM4 motherboard which have yet to debut.

Summit Ridge and Raven Ridge however, are both firmly slated for release in 2022. Height Ridge is of grade the mainstream Zen platform which will be rocking 8 Cores and 16 Threads. The socket in question is the new unified AMD4 socket which requires the promontory chipset and will take configurable TDPs of 65W to 95W (the standard). It is refreshing to encounter that AMD is not focusing on lowering power requirements and sacrificing operation for the high end desktop segment and is only focusing on low TDP envelopes where information technology is absolutely required.

We have already revealed that AMD will initially only exist using octa core dies in the fabrication process of Zen based processors. This method volition exist the optimal route to use in the production of its Summit Ridge processors considering not only volition information technology permit for cost savings (just ane dice) simply volition result in the initial wave of Zen x86 CPUs being exceptionally powerful. Since the company is going to be pitting the brand new architecture against Intel'south offerings, which has then far been alee of the game, Octa-Cadre and Hexa-Core Zen processors with SMT should be able to compete effectively with their blue counterparts.

Raven Ridge is likewise going to have an AM4 counterpart for desktop with the aforementioned compute configuration as its mobility (FP5 packaged) cousin. With 4 x86 Zen cores and 'next generation graphics' the lineup is set up to succeed the Bristol Ridge platform sometime after in 2022. The TDP will be configurable between 35W to 95W.

Zen'due south mainstream platform, 'Summit Ridge', will exist hitting the market in early 2022.

The AMD roadmap confirms quite a few things that we have heard around the rumor mill already. However, we did our ain deep excavation after receiving this leak and found out some interesting things:

At the time of speaking the AM4 chipset "Promontory" has not been completely finalized. There are certain issues with the specification which have non been resolved yet. The current tentative time of release is currently idea to be somewhere around Autumn. However, AMD isn't concerned equally long every bit the platform is set up before the launch of Meridian Ridge.
The Bristol Ridge AM4 APUs on the other hand are completely set. However, they aren't a priority at the moment considering that "Excavator" isn't that much of a huge step upwardly from the existing generation of APUs on the marketplace today.
Superlative Ridge might transport in limited quantities by the end of the yr (probably in Oct) but mainstream market availability in full volume will not happen before 2022.

Here is the matter however, this might seem like a let down but if nosotros are to wait at what AMD'due south Lisa Su has been stating all forth - it fits neatly:

We have been very focused on the server launch for first half of 2022. Desktop should launch earlier that. In terms of true volume ability, I believe information technology volition be in the starting time quarter of 2022. Nosotros may ship some limited volume towards the terminate of the fourth quarter, based on how bring up goes and the customer readiness. Lisa Su, AMD CEO via AMD

Zen is going to be a confusing forcefulness as far as the performance/$ metric is concerned, and offers more than double the operation of its predecessor. Information technology volition be going up against Intel'due south Kaby Lake serial of processors and it remains to exist seen how the ii volition compare. However, information technology doesn't look like the public volition be seeing it before 2022. AMD is also currently working on the huge Naples Zen processor which rocks upto 32 cores in a single package.

AMD Zen Performance Double FX 8350(1)

WCCFTech	AMD Summit Ridge	Intel Kaby Lake
Product Naming	AMD RYZEN	Intel Core 7000 Series
Product Segment	Mainstream Desktop PCs	Mainstream Desktop PCs
Product Architecture	x86 Zen (+40% IPC compared to Excavator)	7th Gen Kaby Lake (Same IPC as Skylake)
Process Node	14nm	14nm+
Max CPU Cores/Threads	eight/16	4/8
GPU Architecture	Due north/A	Intel Hd 600 Series
TDP	Upward to 95W	Up to 95W
Socket	AM4	LGA 1151
PCH	X370	Z270
Memory Back up	DDR4	DDR4
Launch	February - March 2022	Jan 2022