AMD Raven Ridge APU Spotted - 4 ZEN CPU Cores and 704 Shader Processors
The data you can find and spot on SiSoft every now and then is interesting. AMD has released ZEN processors, but not APUs just yet (thus including an integrated graphics processor). Well a Raven Ridge APU spotted in the SoSoft Database.
The Raven Ridge APU has 4 ZEN CPU Cores and the IGP gets 704 Shader Processors, which is substantial I must say. The shader procs should be similar to the Vega generation. The engineering sample APU is tagged under SKU 2M3001C3T4MF2_33/30_N. And from that we can extract a 3.0 GHz base clock frequency with a 3.3 GHz boost (again this is an engineering sample). The APU would SMT to 8 treads. The 704 shader processors run at 800 MHz. It has 2MB (4x512kB) of L2 and 4MB of L3 cache. The GPU thus has 11 Compute Units and with 64 Stream Processors per CUthat forms 704 Stream Processors.
There is a rumor that there will be an even more high-end APU based on Raven Ridge, with 1024 Shader processors, which is the equivalant to a RAdeon RX 560.
It is expected that Raven Ridge is launched in H2 this year.
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I want one of these puppies in my next tiny computer. My current one (a very underpowered Zotac AD04) just died, so my impatience for Raven Ridge has grown exponentially.
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So no desktop APUs with Zen till 2018?
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I'm curious for what those APUs would sell.
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My best guess would be $150-$180 for top-end Apu,Hell there is a market for them regardless how small it may be.1024 shader Apu schould be able to handle most games on(medium) 1080p Very interesting buy indeed.
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These could be very cool, but I wonder what impact the high memory latency will have on the GPU performance.