Apus amd renoir could arrive with zen 2 cores and vega 10 graphics
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AMD has rolled out a bunch of patches for the AMDGPU driver to support the company's next generation of APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit), which have been dubbed Renoir.
AMD Renoir could come with Vega 10 graphics cores
Renoir is the supposed successor to the current AMD Picasso APUs . Picasso is built with the 12nm manufacturing process and with Zen + cores and Vega graphics. AMD Renoir is rumored to be transitioning to the 7nm process node and unveiling the latest Zen 2 microarchitecture. The general expectation was for Renoir to use Navi's new graphical solution. However, recent updates to AMD's open source AMDGPU display driver have dispelled this rumor.
Referenced in AMDGPU drivers
| Architecture | CPU | iGPU | Video Decoder / Encoder | Manufacturing | Lithography | Launching |
| * Renoir | Zen 2 | Vega | VCN 2.0 | TSMC | 7nm | 2020 |
| Picasso | Zen + | Vega | VCN 1.0 | GlobalFoundries | 12nm | 2019 |
| Raven ridge | Zen | Vega | VCN 1.0 | GlobalFoundries | 14nm | 2017 |
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One line of code specifically mentions the GFX9, which we already know to be the Vega ID because Navi is identified with the GFX10 ID. If we continue looking at the other lines, the Vega 10 silicon is also mentioned. However, Renoir's Vega 10 might have a little change. As a quick summary, the Raven Ridge and Picasso APUs employ AMD's VCN (Video Core Next) 1.0 hardware. Renoir apparently uses VCN 2.0.
An unconfirmed AMD roadmap points to Renoir's arrival in 2020. If the launch year is accurate, Renoir will compete against Intel's 10nm Ice Lake chips that include the Gen11 graphics solution. In Intel comparisons, its quad-core Ice Lake-U (ICL-U) chip barely manages to beat the similar quad-core Ryzen 7 3700U APU. It is important to note that the Ice Lake-U processor was running on LPDDR4X-3733 memory while the Ryzen was paired with DDR4-2400 memory. In any case, we expect Renoir to make the leap enough to seamlessly beat the Intel Ice Lake variants.
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