AMD Matisse and Picasso CPUs to arrive in 2019, Vega 20 in Q3 2018?

Some new slide leaked that reportedly show AMD's CPU and GPU roadmap for 2018 and 2019, these were posted by Informatica Cero. So this is the sort of news you better take with a grain of salt, on one hand I'm not sure who would come up with fake codenames like "Matisse" and "Picasso", but on the other hand there do seem to be some errors in the slides (like Polaris-based integrated graphics on Bristol Ridge). So proceed with caution.

On the CPU front the slide reveals there will be no major changes this year. Next year we can expect Pinnacle Ridge, it looks like AMD is adopting a tick-tock like model here. Pinnacle Ridge will be based on the current Summit Ridge architecture but will presumably be made on the new 12LP processor from GlobalFoundries.

One surprise is that Raven Ridge seems to be delayed to 2018, these APUs will combine up to 8 Zen thread with up to 11 Vega-based CUs. Raven Ridge will use Socket AM4 on the desktop and Socket FP5 on the laptop platform.

The 2019 column reveals AMD will switch to painter-based names. The desktop version of the Zen 2 architecture is codenamed Matisse and the slide reveals this chip will stick with Socket AM4. In the same year, we can also expect the Picasso APU. Picasso will be based on Raven Ridge but will offer higher performance/Watt.



Moving on to the GPU roadmap we can see that AMD is listing Vega 20 for a launch in Q3 2018. This slide is geared towards compute and datacenter application so I'm not sure if this is a good guide for the desktop version. Vega 20 will presumable be a 12nm LP version of Vega 10. The slide also reveals that the Rome-based EPYC processor platform will support PCI Express 4.0.



VideoCardz also reposted a third slide from Informatica Cero that shows some benchmarks from AMD that compare the Ryzen 5 PRO mobile APU with an Intel Core i5 Kaby Lake processor. AMD's figures claim Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile will offer much higher multi-threaded CPU performance and integrated graphics performance than the Kaby Lake chip, while running at a comparable idle power level.