The year of 2017 was undoubtedly a bumper harvest year for AMD, and for years, the painstakingly developed Zen architecture broke out completely. Whether it's Ryzen on the desktop or Ryzen APU on a notebook or Ryzen Pro for business customers, Ryzen Back to the data center EPYC, performance, characteristics, power consumption, price and other aspects of the performance of almost perfect, so many years old used to squeeze toothpaste of the old rival Intel at a loss.
In the ecological construction, AMD is also impressive: the desktop has hundreds of motherboards, radiators, memory support, a variety of mobile notebook market one after another, the server hardware and software companies fully support, as well as Xbox One X, iMac Pro And so on heavy products, as well as cooperation with Intel to create, integrate Vega GPU graphics core of the historic product Kaby Lake-G.
AMD is also very concerned about the future development of the processor, we also have a lot of rumors on the Internet.While CES 2018 is about to open, AMD also held a special technical communication meeting, generously expounded the road map for many years to come.
This year, AMD will be officially released in April released an upgraded version of the Ryzen desktop processor of the second generation, just the birth of the first anniversary of Ryzen exactly one anniversary.
Which manufacturing process used GlobalFoundries 12nm (12LP), Compared to the current 14nm pin In-depth optimization of low-power, high-frequency, claiming that the process alone can bring 10 +% performance.
Architecturally evolved into Zen +, improved from the ground up to improve cache, memory speed and latency, as well as new dynamic acceleration Precision Boost 2, adding new multi-core acceleration algorithms for higher performance for games and hands-on experience .
Synchronous evolution of the chipset for the 400 series, The first high-end model X470, improve performance, functionality and reduce power consumption.
Of course, whether it is Ryzen 1000/2000 series processors, or 300/400 series motherboards , The package interface is AM4, compatible with each other , Series 300 motherboards are compatible with Ryzen 2000 by simply refreshing the BIOS. AMD will also co-motherboard makers, in the compatible motherboard package labeled a small label as a hint.
The original radiator will add more advanced Wraith Prism , Add the beliefs of lighting effects, including the rainbow-style RGB ring lines, LED blades, while adding direct contact with the heat pipe to enhance motherboard compatibility, switching over different modes of fan speed fan configuration, the maximum noise does not exceed 39 dB.
In addition, AMD also works with Enmotus to create an acceleration software specifically for Ryzen users.FuzeDrive 'Simply put, it can be high-speed SSD solid state drives, traditional HDD mechanical hard drive integration, automatically allocate data to the appropriate hard drive, thereby enhancing performance, a bit like Apple's Fusion Drive.
AMD said that with this software, Windows system startup speed can be accelerated 172%, software startup can be accelerated up to 9.3 times, the game can load speed can be greatly accelerated.
The software only supports Ryzen platform, but is a fee-paying software.
AMD has long said that the Zen architecture is the foundation for years to come The 12nm Zen + has been pilot-ready and will bring a true Gen 2 Zen 2 by 2019. With several new GlobalFoundries 7nm processes, architectural improvements have been made in several areas and development work has now been completed.
Then the third generation of Zen 3, technology marked as '7nm +', which is an upgraded version of 7nm, is currently being progressed smoothly according to plan, is expected to be around 2020 or so.
