• dateSeptember 21, 2017
  • userMohsen Daemi

AMD Announces 2nd Generation Ryzen & Vega on 12nm Platform Coming early 2018

AMD Ryzen & Vega Getting The 12nm improvment in 2018 as AMD plans to 2020 ahead of time

AMD-Ryzen-2nd gen 2018

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AMD at Global Foundries Technology Conference

AMD today at Global Foundries Technology Conference announced that it will be improving its first Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs to 12nm LP technology next year. The announcement came from the company’s Chief Technology agent Mark Papermaster. And when it is going to be produced? well it was mentioned that 12nm LP volume production will begin in the first quarter of 2018. Second generation Ryzen and Vega products are expected to be available on the market soon thereafter, sometime around April 2018.

 

amd zen 2nd gen 2018

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These 12 nm designed CPU and GPUs replace AMD’s original 14nm plans for both of 2018 product lines, a move which helps AMD keep up with Nvidia. NVIDIA has its own 12nm line-up of GeForce graphics cards to launch in 2018. In theory, there will be a bit of performance gains along with lower power consumption across the board less heating up and less pressure on cooling systems but not necessarily more processing power.

 

amd zen 2nd gen 2018

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2018 seems to be the 12nm year and as you see in AMD master plans 7 nm is on the way as the next step after 12 nm. Nvidia has not been much out there talking about what happens next but AMD now is having a very succesful line “RYZEN” and is making the best out of it. AMD released RYZEN and had a strong comeback to the market by the whole platform Expanded it to Vega and graphics and now is jumpin to the next step The 12 & 7  NM Ryzen Platforms.

 

AMD VS NVIDIA, NEXT GRAPHIC PLATFORMS AND RELEASE DATES

Specs AMD 400 Series AMD 500 Series AMD 600 Series AMD 700 Series GeForce 10 Series GeForce 20 Series
Architecture Polaris Polaris / Vega Vega 2 Navi Pascal Volta
Process Node GF 14nm LPP GF 14nm LPP GF 12nm LP GF 7nm FinFET TSMC 16nm FF TSMC 12nm FF
Memory GDDR5 GDDR5 / HBM2 HBM2 HBM3 GDDR5/X GDDR6
GPUs Polaris 10, Polaris 11 Polaris 20, Polaris 21, Vega 10, Vega 11 TBA Navi 10, Navi 11 GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107 GV102, GV104, GV106, GV107
Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016-2017 2018

 

AMD CPU FAMILIES

Specs AMD Summit Ridge AMD Pinnacle Ridge
Product Family Ryzen 2000 Series Ryzen 3000 Series
Process Node 14nm 12nm
CPU Cores Up to 8 Up to 8
GPU Architecture N/A N/A
TDP 65W-95W 65W-95W
Socket AM4 AM4
Memory Support DDR4 DDR4
Launch 2017 2018

 

 

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