AMD Ryzen CPUs & Vega GPUs To Go 12nm & Then 7nm – 2018

AMD announced recently at the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference; AMD is transitioning its Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs to 12nm LP technology in 2018 probably early 2018, the Ryzen and Vega refresh of 12nm or called the 2nd gen. Some sources has mentioned that AMD is planning to launch AMD 7nm Navi architecture in August 2018.  AMD’s RX Vega line of GPUs did not beat the current pascal GPUs from Nvidia completely. RX Vega 56 did provide more value, compared to the GTX 1070. But as the new line of graphics they could not stant at the top of the chart. So nvidia in return did not go to volta platform and decided to stay at the top with the Pascal GPUs. 1080 TI still has no competitor and is alone at the top of the chart. Nvidia decided to launch a GTX 1070Ti in response of the Vega 56 and then just recently released the new Titan X starwar edition to show off the power. The price is expected to be more than $1200 for the Titan X. AMD is clearly under pressure to bring something to compete in the highest end of the graphics market and it may be the reseon for expediting the 12nm and 7nm platforms. AMD is launching their 2019 7nm Navi architecture earlier in 2018 August.

So expectations for 2018 1st quarter is so high. Amd will probably release the 12nm Vega & Ryzen 2nd gen in Feb or March perhaps. Nvidia may launch their Volta based GPUs in the 1st quarter of 2018 as well. Volta is also a 12nm process Node but expected to be much more powerful than the Pascal series. In this regard AMD will definitely have to come up with a solution like HBM 2.0 or Infinity fabric to make their Vega refresh lineup powerful and equally competitive. Otherwise there are high chances that they will have to face the same performance issue that Vega lineup is facing.

Amd Ryzen 2nd Gen, 12 nm Credit AMD

Amd Ryzen 2nd Gen, 12 nm Credit AMD

Amd Ryzen 2nd Gen, 12 nm Credit AMD

Amd Ryzen 2nd Gen, 12 nm Credit AMD

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