According to another rumor which has its roots in the the SiSoft Sandra database yet again, AMD is busy working on the new generation of APUs with the codename "Raven Ridge". As detailed and rumored earlier, AMD's Raven Ridge APUs are expected to use Zen-based CPU architecture paired up with Vega-based GPU architecture.


A Raven Ridge APU has been spotted in the SiSoftware benchmark database showing us a few more details about the upcoming chip. The engineering sample spotted on the database features four cores with eight threads, clocking at 3.0GHz base clock and 3.3GHz boost clock. Furthermore the chip has 2MB of L2 cache and 4MB of L3 cache.

On the GPU side we find a chip with 11 Compute Units each containing 64 Stream Processors, making for a total of 704 Stream Processors. According to the leak, the GPU runs at 800MHz and it is rated for 572.6 Mpix/s of performance.

While this appears to be a solid and credible leak, we do not have any details whether this is a desktop or a mobile APU. Although it has an "M" in its codename, we don't believe that it will belong to the mobile world since the clock speeds are rather high for a mobile part. According to some rumors, the TDP of AMD’s Raven Ridge APUs will range from 35W to 95W, which means that AMD plans to address a wide market range.

Following the roadmap, AMD might launch the mobile Raven Ridge APUs sometime during the second half of this year while desktop APUs are expected early next year.




Source: SiSoft Sandra database