Ryzen 9000 will be next A great desktop processing platform from AMD, according to the latest information we receive from the usually reliable media, as there is still no official confirmation. They will be available next spring, probably after the presentation at the big Asian trade fair Computex 2024.

Last December, AMD announced the Ryzen 8000 for laptops, a novelty accelerated processor units (APU) with Zen 4 CPU, RDNA 3 GPU and new XDNA NPU for AI tasks. New laptops will be available throughout this quarter from manufacturers such as ASUS, Razer, Lenovo, HP, Dell or Acer. If until now it was said that the equivalent desktop processors will arrive under the same nomenclature (Ryzen 8000), the latest (unofficial) information tells us that AMD is betting on their Ryzen 9000 designation to differentiate them.

We need to continue the demand from the big chip makers Greater clarity in models and series. If Intel has a colossal “pisto” (a very wide catalog in the number of models and functions that the average consumer will not understand), AMD is more of the same. Many launches in a short time, mixing architectures and generations that complicate the choice of the model that best suits the needs of each user.

What will Ryzen 9000 be like?

Start of lesson. AMD’s new thing for desktops has been developed under the code name “Granite Ridge” and is based on a micro-architecture ZEN 5. AMD will maintain Compatibility with current boards with an AM5 socket and a 600 chipset. The USB BIOS flashback function, which is present in almost all new AMD boards, will make this task easier for you. It’s also not unlikely that AMD will launch new chipsets to take full advantage of the range’s capabilities.

The Ryzen 9000 will be chiplet-based processors, with a design similar to the Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” series. In fact, it will even retain the same 6nm client I/O (cIOD) chip as “Raphael”, with some possible revisions to increase the frequency of its native DDR5 memory, certainly up to 6400 MHz as standard.

They will have one or two complex CPU matrix (CCD) «Eldora». Each CCD contains eight “Zen 5” CPU cores (also known as “Nirvana” cores), each with 1MB of L2 cache and an as yet undisclosed amount of on-board L3 cache. The “Zen 5” CCD will be built on TSMC’s N4 (4nm EUV) foundry node, the same node on which the company builds its “Hawk Point” monolithic silicon.

AMD hopes to offer a Increase IPC performance by up to 15%. which should make their gaming performance roughly comparable to the Ryzen 7000X3D series processors, but without the 3D vertical cache, so they would have more room to increase operating frequencies and overclocking.

The “Eldora” dies would already be in production as they will also be used in the next EPYC server processors codenamed “Turin”. Considering that Intel’s next desktop platform, Core Arrow Lake-S, wouldn’t hit the market until late 2024, AMD could have a bit of an advantage with these Ryzen 9000s if, as rumors suggest, they do come to market in spring. There is also talk of versions with X3D vertical cache, but they would not be available until CES 2025. We will tell you.