AMD Roadmap Update Points to RDNA 3 GPUs Launching This Year, 'Zen 5' CPUs in 2024
Just weeks after announcing the first details of its upcoming Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs, AMD has disclosed an outline of its consumer and server products roadmap for the next two generations. The news comes from AMD's Financial Analyst Day, during which CEO Dr. Lisa Su spoke about the company's plans to capture a part of the projected $300 billion market for high-performance computing solutions. While the event is geared towards financial analysts and shareholders, disclosures about AMD's competitive positions in various markets include information about upcoming products. The company also now has a new slogan: "Together we advance".
In the consumer market, AMD's upcoming 'Zen 4' CPU core architecture will be the basis of the 'Raphael' generation of desktop CPUs, which will come to market as the Ryzen 7000 series before the end of this year. This will be a high-end product line using a 5nm manufacturing process, and AMD promises an 8 - 10 percent uplift in IPC (instructions per clock) performance as well as at least a 25 percent improvement in terms of performance per Watt. 4nm versions are also planned, though it isn't clear what the segmentation will be.
Zen 4 will also power the upcoming 'Genoa' line of Epyc server CPUs as well as a new line of 'Bergamo' based on a density-optimised variant called Zen 4c for cloud-native computing applications. 'Genoa-X' variants will feature AMD's integrated 3D V-cache, a vertically stacked layer of high-speed memory on top of the CPU die. Another product line codenamed 'Siena' will target a new market in intelligent edge and communications equipment.
Following that, 'Zen 5' is a ground-up redesign planned for release in 2024 and should further improve performance and
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