Throughout one in all their webinars to channel companions on maximizing server deployments with AMD Ryzen processors, AMD unveiled a number of the upcoming plans surrounding their next-generation Zen 5 microarchitecture. Though we all know the broader AMD desktop roadmap up till 2025 and their plans to launch Zen 5, codenamed ‘Granite Ridge’ someday in 2024, AMD has produced a barely up to date roadmap. Inside this roadmap is particulars asserting that their AM5 platform will formally help upcoming Zen 5 processors.
On prime of this, AMD has unveiled that the Zen 5 desktop processors will fall underneath the Ryzen 8000 collection household, however with a twist, as Zen 5 can even include a brand new iGPU codenamed ‘Navi 3.5.’ The final of the potential bulletins is that we may see Ryzen 7000 collection processors with RDNA 3 (Navi 3x) based mostly built-in graphics later this 12 months.
Regardless of there being little technical data from AMD on their upcoming Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) based mostly processors, that are scheduled for someday in 2024, AMD has let the cat out of the bag. This consists of a few vital (albeit stealthily hidden) confirmations about its next-generation platform. The primary of those confirmations is that AMD’s Zen 5 for desktop merchandise will come underneath the Ryzen 8000 collection, the direct successor to AMD’s present Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 collection for desktops.
AMD’s Ryzen 8000 desktop household of processors, as we now realize it to be, will incorporate three main lineups. This consists of the common desktop CPUs and no less than one however possibly extra Zen 5-based processors with 3D V-Cache packaging. The third is a decrease powered, decrease spec, and extra compact core generally known as the Zen 5c collection, which we all know from the case of Zen 4c, is utilized in AMD’s EYPC 128-core Bergamo processor.
On prime of the Ryzen 8000 naming affirmation, AMD has additionally unveiled that their present AM5 platform for motherboards can even help the upcoming Zen 5-based processors and that the AM5 socket will scale into 2026; AMD’s motherboards sockets for generations have had durations of longevity and stability with new processor launches, and AM5 appears to be like to be no totally different on this regard. This means customers with Ryzen 7000 and AM5-based motherboards equivalent to X670E and B650E may theoretically drop the upcoming Ryzen 8000 chips straight into the socket and allow use via a firmware replace. AMD, nonetheless, hasn’t confirmed this as of but.
The opposite fascinating disclosure is that AMD’s Ryzen 8000 collection will not include RNDA 3-based built-in graphics however with a brand new codename that insinuates an replace to their present Navi 3 merchandise can be within the pipeline. That is named Navi 3.5, and though there aren’t any official particulars on what AMD GPU structure they are going to be based mostly on, or the specs, we should always discover out extra on this nearer to Zen 5’s launch, which, once more, is scheduled for 2024.
Probably the most vital characteristic of AMD’s barely up to date roadmap is that it reveals AMD Ryzen 7000 collection (Zen 4) processors with Navi 3.0 graphics. On condition that AMD’s at present launched Ryzen 7000 collection processors, such because the Ryzen 9 7950X, have an RDNA 2-based built-in graphics chip (Navi 2x), this might be essentially the most evident disclosure but from AMD that Ryzen 7000-based ‘APUs,’ a time period which AMD has seemingly moved on from, might be launched later this 12 months. There may be additionally an opportunity this might be a blooper in AMD’s roadmap.
Nonetheless, it stays to be seen whether or not or not we get a Zen 4-based SoC with better-integrated graphics that we have been accustomed to from earlier generations of Ryzen processors.
