As part of AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2022, we introduced the company’s desktop client CPU roadmap as it moves toward 2024. As you already know, the latest 5nm chips based on AMD’s Ryzen 7000 family will be in the fall of 2022 (late this year), but the big news is that AMD will have Zen5 architecture on AMD’s “Granite Ridge” chip by the end of 2024. I confirmed that.
At Computex 2022, in AMD’s keynote presented by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD presented the Zen4 core architecture using TSMC’s 5nm process node. Despite not announcing a specific SKU during this event, AMD has announced some expected performance metrics that can be expected with the release of the Ryzen 7000 for desktops. This includes 1 MB of L2 cache per core. This is twice the L2 cache per core in Zen 3, which improves single-threaded performance by more than 15%.
AMD 3D V-Cache Appears on Ryzen 7000 and Later
One of the key points to note in AMD’s updated client CPU roadmap is to further emphasize what you can expect from the Zen4 core built on TSMC’s 5nm node. AMD expects an 8-10% IPC improvement over Zen 3 in addition to the previously announced clock speed improvements. As a result, the company expects single-threaded performance to improve by at least 15%, even more for multithreaded workloads.
Meanwhile, AMD’s 3D V-Cache packaging technology will also be included in the client desktop Zen 4. AMD keeps more information close to the chest, but the current roadmap makes it clear that you should at least expect a successor to Ryzen. 75800X3D.
AMD Zen5 for client desktop: Granite Ridge
The AMD Client CPU Roadmap, updated by 2024, also provides a time frame for when the next generation of Zen5 cores can be expected. Built on what AMD calls “advanced nodes” (that is, 4nm or 3nm), Zen5 for client desktops will be Granite Ridge.
Two years later, AMD doesn’t provide more details than they said about the entire Zen5 architecture so far. Therefore, we know that Zen 5 will require a major overhaul of AMD’s CPU architecture with a focus on the front end and the breadth of the problem, but AMD shares nothing specifically with the Granite Ridge family and related platforms. Hmm. Therefore, sockets, chipsets, etc. are all in the air.
But for now, AMD’s full focus is on the Zen4-based Ryzen 7000 family. The 2022, due out this fall, should end with a high reputation for the company.
