AMD continues to work on the Ryzen 7000, a new generation of processors that, if all goes according to plan, will hit the market in the middle of the third quarter of this yearwhich would take us around the month of August, although there is always the possibility of a small delay.

Ryzen 7000 will use Zen Architecture 4 and retain a modular design, which means that these processors will be backed by chipsets. Each chiplet will have a total of 8 cores, and thanks to SMT technology, you can move a total of 16 threads. We expect profound changes that will improve IPC and increase operating frequencies above 5 GHz, which is a milestone in modular CPU designs.

Those chiplets will be made on a 5nm node from TSMC and The I / O chip will be manufactured on a 6nm node. The platform will also change, and as our regular readers will remember, the Ryzen 7000 will launch the new AM5 platform, accompanied by the X600 series chipsets, the successors to the current X500 series.

The Ryzen 7000 will also have an intergenerational recovery with a 3D cache

It’s one of the latest information we’ve been able to see, and it seems to confirm that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was not a one-off step by AMD. This chip became the first general consumer processor to have 3D stacked cachea change that has led to improved performance in games, although the results vary depending on the individual titles.

AMD plans to repeat the strategy with the Ryzen 7000, as it will launch models of this generation also equipped with a 3D stacked cache. At the moment, we do not have information on which chips will enter the market with this type of cache, but it can almost be assumed that one of them will be Ryzen 7 7800X3Dsuccessor of the current Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

Launch of Ryzen 7000 with 3D caching will take place sometime in 2023, which means that this new generation of processors could be conceived as a kind of intergenerational renovation. In terms of the performance gains they could offer, you can expect something similar to what happened to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a performance boost focused primarily on applications that depend on the full L3 cache, such as games.

For the current generation, AMD decided to release only the Ryzen 7 5800X3D because it wanted to avoid supply and availability problemswhich would arise if he decided to launch more versions of the Ryzen 5000 series. This should not happen again with the Ryzen 7000, although we can only end up with two or three versions equipped with a stacked L3 cache in 3D, such as the Ryzen 5 7600X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D.