AMD confirms Raven Ridge Vega 11 and halts production Vega Reference Cards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/04/2017 09:19 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

In a recent interview with James Prior, senior product manager at AMD (the man behind Threadripper) mentioned a number of things that are interesting. First and foremost, Prior mentions that socket AM4 will be supported until at least 2020, and it will support Ryzen 2, not be confused with the optimization of Zen, named Zen+.

Prior also mentioned Raven Ridge, the APU that makes use of Vega 11 GPU 11 enabled Compute Units = 704 shader procs (until now APUs only have had 8 and 10 CUs).

Last but not least, Prior also confirmed that will be halting the production of RX Vega 56 and 64 reference models. This way they only make the GPUs which they sell to board partners. That clears up the selling space and thus partners will get far more chips available. Hopefully, that will get volume availability of the cards back on track.

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cryohellinc
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#5497774 Posted on: 12/04/2017 09:24 AM

Good stuff, personally waiting on Zen+ news my potential next upgrade.

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#5497785 Posted on: 12/04/2017 10:11 AM

I doubt there will ever be a Vega 11 enabled APU this generation, its one extra CU for yields and possible defects.

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#5497786 Posted on: 12/04/2017 10:11 AM

Personally I don't care about CPU because DDR jeeps getting more expensive and I can hold on to my 2500k for a little wile. Plus, I need a new GPU...I can't wait for Vega mainstream but that's probably months away.

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#5497817 Posted on: 12/04/2017 11:53 AM

Good stuff, personally waiting on Zen+ news my potential next upgrade.

As do I... but I doubt we'll see any news this year.

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#5497821 Posted on: 12/04/2017 12:21 PM

Zen+ is probably already coming to CES in January...Ryzen prices being slashed by a hefty margin for a while could be interpreted as a hint Zen+ is coming very soon.

Apparently someone from AMD told OC.uk that AMD are already preparing for a launch or something...so PCGH.de turned that into Pinnacle Ridge at CES.

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