Yesterday on the reporting of quarterly conference the head of AMD admitted that in the second half of the year will be presented not only mobile, but also desktop versions of hybrid processors Raven Ridge. Recent receive design concept Socket AM4, allowing them to work in the same motherboards with eight-Ryzen. AMD CEO refused to explain what graphics system will have hybrid processors Raven Ridge.
Actually, in the line of motherboards it has been said that for products with connector Socket AM4 water blocks are already preparing to effectively cool the power components , and one of the largest manufacturers of motherboards says 10-phase power system minimally sufficient for serious overclocking Ryzen processors.
Raven Ridge processors mentioned in this context, the unexpected, but it is attributed to the presence of four cores and support for eight simultaneous processing threads. The remaining area of the crystal takes the graphics core, so for economic reasons processors Raven Ridge will have no more than four cores.
Along the way, it clarifies that all processors in execution Socket AM4 will be supported by the operating system Windows 7 - in the case of graphics is important. For example, Intel processors generation Kaby Lake Windows 7 operating system is not officially supported, and "conditionally compatible driver" fully support the functionality of the graphics core does not give .