AMD to Unveil Next-Gen Ryzen CPUs on Aug. 29
On Aug. 29, AMD plans on unveiling its next-generation PC products, including the Zen 4 architecture for the Ryzen 7000 CPU series.
The “together we advance_PCs” event will be live streamed on AMD's YouTube channel(Opens in a new window). The proceedings will kick off at 7 p.m. EST that Monday night, and feature speakers including AMD CEO Lisa Su and CTO Mark Papermaster.
The event signals that Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs are close to launching. AMD’s own benchmarks have already revealed the next-generation processors can score a 25% performance-per-watt improvement over AMD’s last-generation Ryzen 5000 silicon, which arrived two years ago.
The company is improving the Ryzen 7000 CPUs by using a new Zen 4 architecture built with TSMC’s 5-nanometer manufacturing process. In addition, at least some of the chips can run with clock speeds exceeding 5GHz, and all should have more L2 memory cache.
The other big advancement is how AMD is switching to a new AM5 motherboard platform to enable PCI Express 5.0 and DDR5 RAM support on the new chips. All together, the improvements mean the Ryzen 7000 series can offer an up to 35% performance uplift over the Ryzen 5000 CPUs, according to AMD.
The company has remained mum on price. But in a Q2 earnings call, Su said(Opens in a new window): “We've deliberately focused our PC market on, let's call it, the more premium segments. So gaming as well as high end sort of the ultra-premium, as well as the commercial segments.” As a result, the Ryzen 7000 series may arrive with a high price tag, at least during the initial launch.
Officially, AMD has only said the Ryzen 7000 CPUs will go on sale before the end of September. The latest rumors(Opens in a new window) suggest the company is
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