AMD used the Computex 2022 framework to introduce its new generation of chips. processors excel Ryzen 7000 for desktops and the platform that will support them, the AM5 socket and the three different chipsets that the company will launch to cover the entire product line.

Last January, AMD offered the first insight into ZES 4, a new architecture that defines the future of its processors in the medium term, as it is the basis for the Ryzen 7000 consumer processors we will see in this post. , as well as Threadrippers for Workstations and EPYC’s next-generation servers and data centers, which will be announced in the coming months.

AMD Ryzen 7000

Like all of AMD’s great announcements, the presentation was made by its CEO, Lisa Su, in a keynote address that, by the way, served as the starting signal for the big trade fair in Taiwan, which officially begins tomorrow and lasts until Thursday.

As we said, the Ryzen 7000 was created based on the ZEN 4 architecture and released new ones 5nm manufacturing process from the TSMC foundry. Like the Ryzen 5000, they use a multi-chip module (MCM) core, but it doubles the number of cores per chip, from 8 to 16 cores. The I / O matrix mold also uses a new 6nm process, which is a significant improvement over the previous generation matrix, which was manufactured at 12nm.

The 5nm CCD jump will allow AMD to expand to up to 16 Zen 4 cores per chiplet, all of which are “high performance” cores, the CEO stressed. It is a reference to Intel’s hybrid design with Alder Lake and its “efficient” cores, a direct competitor to these Ryzens 7000.

The CPU core is also larger to contain 1 Mbyte per L2 cache, among other new features, double of 512 kB present in all previous versions of “Zen”. It is necessary to draw attention to another novelty that AMD has reserved so far for its proposals accelerated processor units (APU) and it is inclusion of an integrated chart with the RDNA2 graphics architecture, certainly in response to the improvements to the Intel graphics component with the Xe Gen12 iGPU Alder Lake-S.

In terms of capacity and as we have already told you, the Ryzen 7000 is expected to offer a Single-wire performance increase of up to 37% and a 15% improvement in IPC compared to the Ryzen 5000. It may not be as spectacular in multithreading, but a jump to the level is expected in this section as well. Part of this will be responsible for increasing operating frequencies. And not a little when it was already mentioned 5.5 GHz in turbo mode, the highest value of all previous AMD CPUs. Pictured, AMD CEO “demonstrates” performance against the Core i9-12900K:

The hypothetical Ryzen 9 7950X with two Zen 4 chipsets could offer 32 cores and 64 threads plus 128 MB of L3 3D cache. The “bestial” CPU is also in consumption because its TDP would be around 170 watts. We will already offer you a technical article with all the details of these Ryzen 7000, but everything announced so far sounds very promising for AMD and the competition with Intel, which will benefit industry and consumers.

AM5 sockets and 600 series chipsets

Another great innovation of the platform is the new socket known as AM5 (LGA1718)which, together with three different chipsets, will enable AMD to catch up with the latest technologies such as PCIe 5.0, the DDR5 memory standard and the most advanced connectivity interfaces such as Wi-Fi 6E or USB4.

Confirm what we already knew about this new socket, that it changes the current pin-based CPU (PGA) connection system to a contact field-based system (LGA). It holds up 24 PCI-Express 5.0 lines from the CPU16 of them for PCI-Express slots (used for dedicated graphics cards) and another 4 lines connected to the M.2 NVMe module.

It should be noted that Intel’s Alder Lakes also have 16 Gen 5 lanes towards the PCIe slots, but the connection between the CPU and M.2 occurs under Gen4. AMD therefore stressed that the Ryzen 7000 will first with M.2 slots based on PCIe Gen 5. AMD is working with Phison to optimize the first round of GenD SSDs for this platform, although older generations of SSDs may also work.

It only supports Ryzen 7000 DDR5 memory two channels (four subchannels). Same as “Alder Lake”, although unlike Intel they do not support DDR4, which will mean that a user who wants to jump to this platform will have to buy new DDR5 memory modules and the latest generation motherboard. We can’t blame AMD for the lack of backward compatibility because they’ve maintained it for generations, but there’s no doubt that they want to start a whole new platform here.

The platform will also offer up to 14 20Gbps USB ports, and once it is decided that integrated graphics should be integrated, motherboards will include up to four DisplayPort 2 or HDMI 2.1 ports. The company will also standardize the solution Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth WLAN which he developed in collaboration with MediaTek to move away from designs using Intel WLAN solutions.

Three different chipsets

The AMD AM5 platform will be available in three different chipset variants: AMD X670 Extreme (X670E), AMD X670 and AMD B650.

The X670 Extreme will be the most advanced, offering the highest performance and connectivity, and will run exclusively on PCIe 5.0 on all 24 lines. The X570 would offer 20 PCIe Gen 4 lines from the CPU output, while maintaining NVMe connectivity connected to the CPU and the PCIe Gen 5 slots. The B650 will be the cheapest and will combine different interfaces.

AMD has announced that the most advanced motherboards come for this platform and we see them from all major manufacturers such as ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme, ASRock X670E Taichi, MSI MEG X670E ACE, GIGABYTE X670E AORUS Xtreme and BIOSTAR X670E Valkyrie, which we will see with more details in future articles. Also new features that will improve the platform in general, such as support for Microsoft DirectStorage with the new AMD Smart Access Storage technology.

Ryzen 7000 processors and AM5 motherboards are expected to be available next fallwe assume October as a key launch month.