AMD Pinnacle Ridge Discussion Thread

[Hades.]

Hey guys,

Rumour has it that AMD is gonna release the Pinnacle Ridge 12nm CPUs in the month of February 2018 along with X470 and B450 chipset motherboards.

The first Pinnacle Ridge CPUs that would see the day light would be the Ryzen 7 series CPUs followed by Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 series CPUs.

AMD is eyeing to capture 30% desktop market share by the end of first half of next year.

If Pinnacle Ridge CPUs turn out to be good overclockers, i dont see a reason why AMD wont be able to achieve that target.

I hope AMD manages to increase the IPC by atleast 10percent which would really close the IPC gap between Coffeelake CPUs.

Intel is like sitting ducks, there hasnt been much improvement in IPC since Skylake CPUs were launched.

I hope AMD manages to catch Intel off guard once again like they did by launching Ryzen CPUs.

What do you guys think about the upcoming Pinnacle Ridge CPUs?

Do share your thoughts below.

Source : http://wccftech.com/amd-12nm-ryzen-...unching-february-2018-alongside-x470-chipset/

 

[Chaos]

I do not see any increase in IPC at least until ryzen2 arrives. For this it probably will be a clock speed bump.

 

[Hades.]

I do not see any increase in IPC at least until ryzen2 arrives. For this it probably will be a clock speed bump.

They are saying that Pinnacle Ridge CPUs would be based on Zen+ Architecture. As they are tweaking the architecture a bit, i am expecting slight IPC Gain. Plus i think by using GloFo 12NM LP process node, it would allow them to make the processors more efficient. Lets see what AMD has under wrap for us.

 

[Hades.]

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-x470-review-out-beats-i7-8700k-in-7-10-game-tests/

AMD did what i was expecting them to do, my prediction turned out to be somewhat true.

AMD worked on the weakness of the Ryzen processors which was gaming performance and with the launch of 2nd gen Ryzen processors they have managed to match the Coffeelake CPUs gaming performance if not beat it.

AMD Ryzen 2700X is overall looking as a better choice than 8700k. It performs better in Single threaded benchmarks (thanks to higher clocks) than Ryzen 1st gen plus beats the crap out of 8700k in multithreaded benchmarks. 8700k is still better than 2700x in single threaded performance as it has IPC advantage plus better clock speed.

Kudos to AMD as they have really managed to bring the 2700x single thread performance close to 8700k processor.

 

[Chaos]

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-x470-review-out-beats-i7-8700k-in-7-10-game-tests/

AMD worked on the weakness of the Ryzen processors which was gaming performance and with the launch of 2nd gen Ryzen processors they have managed to match the Coffeelake CPUs gaming performance if not beat it.

I'd hold off my horses on that one. The results are all over the place and seem GPU limited. I'd hold off speculating on performance until the NDA lifts on 19th.

 

[Hades.]

I'd hold off my horses on that one. The results are all over the place and seem GPU limited. I'd hold off speculating on performance until the NDA lifts on 19th.

That website didnt sign NDA so i think the performance numbers are legit.

 

[Chaos]

That website didnt sign NDA so i think the performance numbers are legit.

They might be legit but probably gpu limited as they used a 1070 not a 1080ti to rule gpu limitations out. The 1070 is probably hitting its limits before the cpu.

 

[Hades.]

I dont think that is how CPU and GPU works.

I found this website

https://www.fpsbenchmark.com/fortnite

If you would check RX480 still performs better on an Intel i5 7600k rig even though R7 1700X is a much more powerful CPU. IPC matters a lot when it comes to games but dont you think according to what you said above, both the processors should deliver similar framerate as CPU is not the bottleneck in both the rigs for a GPU like RX480?