Jim Keller (Creator of Zen Architecture) And An RGT Leak Agree: AMD Zen 5 CPU Will Be A Monster

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I have been covering AMD's Zen architecture for a while;- I was in fact one of the first tech press in the world to cover the architecture before it had even officially been confirmed to exist (9 or so years ago) and revealed to the world. I called out the threat that Zen posed to Intel when sell-side analysts were still pricing AMD at a mere dollar and encouraging people to sell. Structural shifts like a major architectural update can be hard to see for an industry that is flooded by leaks & rumors of inconsistent accuracy and a large amount of inertia in the supply chain. However, it is not impossible - and unless I am very much mistaken - history is about to repeat itself.

While going through the materials for this article, I felt a sense of deja vu that I had not felt since 2014-2015 because similar to the initial Zen launch - AMD has quietly been working on a major breakthrough - and both the creator of Zen and recent leaks from RTG agree: Zen 5 is going to be an absolute monster in the x86 space.

A few months ago, the following slide was posted by Jim Keller in a presentation. The video has since been deleted (likely because this probably violates whatever NDA Jim Keller signed) but I was able to find the slide (courtesy of PCWorld) online. It is unclear to what extent Jim participated in the development of Zen 5 but considering he created the original Zen architecture and has clearly marked marked projected values as "projected" (note NVIDIA Grace), we can safely assume that every entry is grounded in reality and hard data.

Zen5 is going to have a higher SPECINT performance than Sapphire Rapids and older Zen architectures. In fact you can clearly see that the Zen5 bar breaks free from the median shown in its