AMD Ryzen 8000 “Granite Ridge” Desktop CPUs Rumored To Utilize Same IO Die As Ryzen 7000

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AMD's Ryzen 8000 "Granite Ridge" Desktop CPUs are rumored to utilize the same IO die as the existing Ryzen 7000 chips.

According to some new information by Olrak29_ & Kepler_L2, it looks like AMD will be keeping one part of its next-gen Ryzen 8000 Desktop CPUs, codenamed Granite Ridge, the same as the existing Ryzen 7000 CPUs.

By the way this is a leak, Granite Ridge uses the same IO Die https://t.co/CrHMHMCPlI

— Everest (@Olrak29_) August 28, 2023

We know from previous information that AMD's Ryzen 8000 family of Desktop CPUs will launch in 2024 on the AM5 socket. The next-generation family was expected to support Zen 5 CPU cores & RDNA 3.5 iGPU cores however, one aspect of the family has changed since AMD revealed the CPU plan in its official slide back in June 2023. The slide clearly mentions 65W to 170W CPUs. It could include both APUs and CPUs but we know for certain that 170W is a power target that Ryzen APUs aren't designed around.

The AMD Ryzen 8000 Desktop CPUs will utilize the next-gen Zen 5 core architecture, offering a big leap in performance and power efficiency but at the same time, one chiplet will be kept the same & that's the IOD (I/O Die). The rumor states that nothing has changed from the Ryzen 7000 for the IO die which means the 28 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, memory controllers, USB functionalities, and even RDNA 2 iGPU cores will remain untouched.

Reusing the same IO die should have no major impact though. The company has previously reused Zen 2's IOD for Zen 3. In fact, the reusability will definitely save AMD some costs and make it easy to produce Ryzen 8000 chips using a good-to-go IOD solution.

Interestingly, AMD lists the Ryzen 7000 "Desktop" CPUs with Navi 3.0 support whereas the Radeon 710M iGPU in fact is