Raven Ridge Outperforms Bristol Ridge by up to 90%

According to a new leak, AMD’s forthcoming Raven Ridge APU performs up to 90% faster than its predecessor. Fresh Geekbench benchmark scores suggest the new AMD CPU/GPU combo absolutely trashes the much-maligned Bristol Ridge APU. But, with Raven Ridge combining AMD’s Ryzen and Vega CPU and GPU architectures, respectively, such performance gains are to be expected.

Raven Ridge Geekbench Performance

The benchmarks – via Guru3D – relate to the mid-range Ryzen 5 2500U APU. The 2500U scores 3625 single-core points and 9723 multi-core points. For comparison, the Bristol Ridge A12 9800 – the fastest of its range – scores only 2607 and 6329, respectively.

Geekbench Hardware Specifications

AMD Mandolin

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
• Model: AMD Mandolin
• Processor:
  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Graphics @ 2.00 GHz
  • 1 processor, 4 cores, 8 threads
• Processor ID: Authentic AMD Family 23 Model 17 Stepping 0
• Codename: Raven Ridge
• L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB x 4
• L1 Data Cache: 64 KB x 4
• L2 Cache: 512 KB x 4
• L3 Cache: 4096 KB
• Motherboard: AMD Mandolin
• Northbridge: AMD Ryzen SOC 00
• Southbridge: AMD Carrizo FCH 51
• BIOS: Insyde Corp. 1000EPreS3046_P08226
• Memory: 7848 MB 300MHz

AMD Raven Ridge Specifications

• CPU Architecture: Zen
• Process: 14nm
• CPU Cores: Up to 4
• GPU Architecture: Vega
• TDP: TBA
• Socket: AM4
• Memory: DDR4

Price and Availability

AMD’s new APUs are out Q4 2017. Prices are yet to be announced.