Pinnacle Ridge processors

AMD Zen+ Pinnacle (Gen 2)

— AMD processors, formally belonging to the second generation of chips based on the Zen microarchitecture (like the earlier Raven ones), but using the improved Zen+ microarchitecture. The latter was introduced in April 2018; its key update was the reduction of the manufacturing process from 14 nm to 12 nm. At the same time, the number of transistors and the dimensions of the circuit remained the same, and the manufacturer used the reduction in size to increase the distance between individual elements, due to which it was possible to increase performance without increasing heat dissipation; and power consumption, compared to the original Zen, even decreased. Another feature introduced within this architecture is the ability to adjust the clock frequency depending on the load on the processor.

The Zen+ Pinnacle chips are mostly fairly powerful 6- or 8-core solutions that belong to the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 series.