AMD's Ryzen roadmap has been revealed, indicating that there will be Zen 2 and Zen 3 CPU platform releases in the next few years. And between late 2017 and early 2018, Raven Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge will come out that likely will remain compatible with AM4 chipset. The pricing and release have been provided too but still subject for confirmation.

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The Raven Ridge chips, according to WCCFTech, will sell at around $250 and will come with an integrated GPU that will make use of AMD's upcoming Vega architecture. Thought to run on enhanced Zen cores, Raven Ridge is tipped to market anytime in the second half of 2017 but the same report noted that originally the chip was slated for a 2018 market debut.

Why the release revision was made, the report did not mention.

Then there's the Pinnacle Ridge, which is AMD's immediate sequel to the Ryzen Summit Ridge chips, WCCFTech added on its report, pointing to the same AMD Ryzen roadmap cite above.

While Raven is still part of the original Zen CPU platform, Pinnacle will showcase the processing improvements gained in time for Zen 2. It is projected that from Summit Ridge, Pinnacle will deliver up to 15 percent gains from the original Zen with AMD CEO Lisa Su confirming that both the Zen 2 and 3 architectures will represent significant step ups in terms of chip performance, the report added.

Pinnacle is also seen to solve the issues associated with Summit Ridge such as optimization of specific gaming applications and compatibility with higher clocked DDR4 memory chips. The same report likewise claimed that Pinnacle Ridge will remain compatible with the AM4 chipsets but key adjustments such as socket revisions and backward compatibility tweaks.

The original plan was for AMD to start selling the Pinnacle Ridge CPUs in the last quarter of 2017 but the release calendar was pushed back due to unexplained development delays.

As for the pricing, the AMD Ryzen Pinnacle Ridge on release date is expected to use the same pricing model seen with the Summit Ridge processors that saw the flagship Ryzen 7 1800X CPU selling for no more than $500.