AMD Desktop Roadmap: Ryzen 8000 “Granite Ridge” CPUs In Late 2024 & Threadripper “Shimada Peak” In 2025

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AMD's next-gen desktop CPU families including Ryzen 8000 "Granite Ridge" & Threadripper "Shimada Peak" along with their release dates.

The report comes from DigiTimes who states that due to a sluggish PC market, most customers will not be utilizing TSMC's 3nm process node and instead rely on 5nm and 4nm processes till 2025. It's known that the PC market hasn't been performing well due to economic tensions & rising inflation and that has changed the course for TSMC and its major partners such as AMD. The tech outlet has a list of next-gen families along with their schedules which they received from industry sources.

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AMD Ryzen 8000 "Granite Ridge" Desktop CPUs With Zen 5 In Late 2024

Starting off with the desktop family, it is reported that the successor to the AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU family codenamed Raphael will come in the form of Ryzen 8000 codenamed Granite Ridge. These chips will utilize a mix of 4nm and 6nm nodes. The 4nm process will be used for the CCD while the 6nm process will be used for the IOD. It is reported that the Granite Ridge series will launch in late 2024 as AMD still wants to squeeze more juice out of its Zen 4 cores for the desktop segment.

AMD has so far confirmed that the new Zen 5 architecture will launch in 2024. The Zen 5 CPUs will come in three flavors (Zen 5 / Zen 5 V-Cache / Zen 5C) and the chip itself is designed from the ground up with a completely brand new microarchitecture that focuses on delivering enhanced performance and efficiency, a re-pipelined front-end, and wide issue along with Integrated AI and machine learning optimization. Some of the key features of Zen 5 CPUs include:

While there have been