AMD Ryzen 7000: everything we know so far

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The AMD Ryzen 7000 family of CPUs is preparing for launch in 2022, two years after the Ryzen 5000 series. AMD have spent a good chunk of that time on its laptop chips, but back in the realm of desktops, Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips have leveraged major design improvements to beat the Ryzen 5000 series on performance and features. One suspects it would take a considerable rejigging for these Ryzen 7000 chips to get back into the best gaming CPUs conversation – and so far, that’s exactly what seems to be happening.

Now, AMD haven’t revealed all things Ryzen 7000 yet. There are no confirmed prices, for one, though we know roughly when the first batch of CPUs will release. For now, this is where I’ll be gathering all the reliably verified info on these next-gen components, from supported features and the new motherboard chipsets to those overhauled Ryzen 7000 specs.

Most of these deets are courtesy of AMD’s own Computex 2022 keynote, but I’ll be updating this page with fresh news as it appears. Feel free to bookmark it and check back if you’re likely to be in the market for a new CPU later this year.

Back during CES 2022, when AMD first made the Ryzen 7000 series officially official, autumn 2022 was given as a release window. As far as I tell, this hasn’t been pushed back since, though neither has it narrowed to a specific date.

For what it’s worth, the first Ryzen 5000 chips launched on November 5th 2020, though that doesn’t necessarily mean AMD are doing an Nvidia by releasing new hardware generations on a steady two-year cycle. Expect a more concrete release date as we get close to that September-November period, presumably along with pricing information, which is also still to come.

The Ryzen 7000 design