Throughout its Monetary Analyst Day 2022, AMD shared up to date roadmaps for its future desktop and cellular processors spanning 2024. On the desktop aspect, the chipmaker will unleash the Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) military this fall, however that will not be the final we’ll hear of Zen 4.
The desktop processor roadmap exhibits that AMD will give Ryzen 7000 the 3D V-Cache remedy. Due to this fact, we are able to count on an inheritor to AMD’s current Ryzen 7 5700X3D at least. Sadly, the chipmaker did not reveal if it has extra SKUs in thoughts this time round.
Skilled and workstation customers will likely be joyful to know that AMD will port its Zen 4 cores over to the Threadripper household. It is nice information contemplating that HEDT processors have been fading away within the final couple of years. Nonetheless, AMD’s roadmap solely exhibits the Threadripper branding, so it is unknown whether or not Zen 4 will come to the vanilla Threadripper and Professional counterparts or solely the latter. With Zen 3, AMD solely launched the Threadripper Professional 5000 WX sequence. The non-Professional variations have but to come back, they usually perhaps by no means will.
Assuming no setbacks, Zen 5 will not arrive till 2024. That signifies that AMD will give Zen 4 no less than two years of shelf life. The codename for Zen 5 is Granite Ridge, and AMD refers to an “superior node” for the longer term chips. We assume they’re going to come out of the 4nm or 3nm furnace. Supposing that AMD does not pull one other Ryzen 7000 on us and skip a ‘1000’ totally, the Zen 5 chips will probably debut because the Ryzen 8000 sequence. AMD has confirmed that AM5 will likely be a long-lived platform just like what AM4 represented. Due to this fact, Granite Ridge will slot into the AM5 socket.
For cellular, AMD is at present on the 6nm Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) lineup that introduced Zen 3+ cores and RDNA graphics right into a single package deal. Phoenix Level, the successor to Rembrandt, will wield Zen 4 cores, RDNA 3 graphics, and  Synthetic Intelligence Engine (AIE) hailing from Xilinx. TSMC will produce Phoenix Level for AMD on the foundry’s newest 4nm course of node.
Strix Level, which lands in 2024, will wield AMD’s Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3+ graphics and retains the identical AIE. RDNA 3+ is probably going a refresh of the RDNA 3 engine with improved efficiency per watt. Strix Level’s configuration means that AMD provides its cellular chips a slight pause between RDNA 3 and RDNA 4. AMD’s roadmap solely exhibits Strix Level with Zen 5 cores. Nonetheless, a leaked roadmap claimed Strix Level might need a hybrid design like Intel’s twelfth Era Alder Lake chips. The rumor pointed to Zen 5 and Zen 4D cores, with the latter presumably being a power-optimized variant of Zen 4.
