Thanks to a new announcement from Weibo MSI, September 15th is the newly confirmed release date for AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processors (codenamed Zen 4) and associated AM5 platform. AMD itself has confirmed a general Q4 release of the year, but MSI was the first to leak the actual release date.
Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) is AMD’s next-generation CPU lineup and aims to replace the well-received but aging Ryzen 5000 series CPUs. Ryzen 7000 is one of AMD’s most significant upgrades to date, featuring a brand new Zen 4 architecture and introducing a brand new socket codenamed AM5 (AMD’s first socket upgrade in five years). increase.
Zen 4 brings many new performance enhancements to the Ryzen platform. 15% better single-threaded performance than Zen 3 and 35% better overall performance including multi-threaded workloads. Power efficiency is also improved by 25%.
Zen 4’s actual IPC boost is very small, an 8-10% improvement over Zen 3, but AMD compensates for this by dramatically improving Zen 4’s clock speeds. The Ryzen 7000 CPUs will feature peak boost clocks well over 5GHz with peaks he is expected to reach 5.5GHz.
Zen 4 is also the first Ryzen architecture with built-in AVX-512 support and full support for RDNA2 integrated graphics out of the box. Previous Ryzen chips were split between CPU and APU, with APU variants sporting Vega integrated graphics chips at the expense of L3 cache size. Ryzen 7000 removes these limitations.
Ryzen 7000 also brings a new socket we’ve seen from AMD for the first time in five years called AM5. Additionally, this new motherboard platform brings a host of new connectivity standards to Ryzen, including DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. This puts it on par with Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake and upcoming 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs.
As a result, Ryzen 7000 has more memory bandwidth and better connectivity than ever thanks to these new standards. The chipset has also changed, with the baseline model moving to the B650, the midrange to the X670, and the flagship variant evolving to the X670E.
This will be the first major platform upgrade in several years since AMD introduced the first generation Ryzen in 2017. As a result, the builder will have to buy or upgrade CPUs and motherboards to take advantage of his Ryzen 7000 capabilities. Not to mention buying into the DDR5 ecosystem.
