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AMD Pushes Performance, IPC Gains Higher With Zen 2 Pinnacle Ridge CPUs; Monstrous 65% Increment Over Excavator

However, gamers expect that AMD will be able to resolve the performance issues experienced by the new Ryzen CPUs before Pinnacle Ridge launches. These issues include the lack of or delayed optimization of the gaming application, compatibility with higher clocked DDR4 memory as well as deficient CPU clock speeds. Moreover, AMD could leverage on its existing process nodes with enhancements to produce better yields and chips that will be able to clock higher than existing SKUs. It is also important that AMD Pinnacle Ridge will be compatible with AM4 socket, which is a feature that AMD plans to keep for many years to come.