During the CES 2022 show, AMD announced the next generation of Zen4 CPU architecture, desktop products will be named Ryzen™ 7000 series, using 5nm process manufacturing, AM5 LGA1718 package interface, support DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0 bus, with 500 series motherboards.
As for the release time, the statement given by "Su Mama" is a very vague range in the second half of this year.
According to information shared by exposure expert Greymon55, Zen4 will come earlier than expected, and it will be announced at the Taipei Computer Show on May 24-27 that it will be launched in the third quarter.
According to the rules of the industry, AMD should disclose more information about the Ryzen 7000 series at the Taipei Computer Show, and even give a clear release time, and it is more reasonable to speculate that the sale will be held in July and August.
Why in advance? It is obvious that the pressure is feeling the Intel 12th generation Core, and there will be raptor Lake 13th generation Core in the second half of the year.
AMD is still relying on the release of a year and a half of the Ryzen™ 5000 series to fight the world, 3D cache upgrade version only one model Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D, until March to be listed, the impact is limited.
Judging from the current news, the Zen4 architecture of the Ryzen™ 7000 series in the CCD computing unit will be TSMC 5nm, the IOD input and output unit is TSMC 6nm, the memory is dual channel DDR5-5200, and support AMD RAMP one-click memory overclocking (similar to Intel XMP 3.0), PCIe 5.0 channels number of 28, also support NVMe 4.0, USB 3.2 (may have USB4), high-end model thermal design power consumption of 105-120W, Up to about 170W can be released.
Different from the independent product layout of CPUs and APUs in the past, the Ryzen™ 7000 series will integrate RDNA2 GPUs across the board, but the specific number of cores is unknown.
The 600 series motherboard will have at least X670, B650, is also speeding up, and there will soon be trial production samples, as soon as this month or next month.
It is worth mentioning that the existing AM4 heatsink is recognized for compatible use on the next generation platform.
Zen5？ Greymon55 said it has always been scheduled for 2023.