The next generation of AMD processors is on the way. At the end of May Lisa Su, the CEO of this company, announced that the Ryzen 7000 chips with Zen 4 microarchitecture They will hit stores later this year, news that promises us a most exciting final stretch of 2022. However, this has not been the last announcement of this company.
A few hours ago AMD has revealed the release schedule that will continue for the next two years, and it is very juicy because it does not only include Zen 4 processors; also identifies when the first chips will arrive with Zen 5 microarchitecture and 3 and 4 nm integration technology.
Since it launched the first Ryzen processors, this company has shown us that it does not stitch without thread, and this announcement gives us solid clues about some of the features that they will have. the next two generations of these chips. And, as we are about to see, they look good. Really good. There is no doubt that the Ryzen family of processors faces the future with determination.
Zen 5 will arrive in 2024 along with the 3 and 4 nm
The relationship between AMD and TSMC is strong. In the slide that we publish below these lines we can see that the company led by Lisa Su plans to launch the first Ryzen 7000 processors with Zen 4 microarchitecture (including the revision equipped with V-Cache technology) and 4 and 5 nm photolithography at the end of 2022. We already knew this, but what we did not officially know is when the successors of these chips will arrive. Now we know.
In 2024 AMD will launch the first Ryzen microprocessors produced in the nodes of 3 and 4nm from TSMCand, as expected, these chips will be supported by a new baptized microarchitecture, without leaving the slightest margin for us to get a surprise, like Zen 5. This slide also puts another interesting clue on the table: V technology -Cache will continue to be present in some of the Zen 5 processors, so it is clear that it has some rope left for a while.
Although we do not yet have detailed information about the Zen 5 microarchitecture, AMD has given us some clues as a declaration of intent about what this implementation will offer us. The first thing that the next slide promises us is, as expected, higher performance and higher efficiency.
In 2024 AMD will launch the first Ryzen microprocessors produced on TSMC’s 3 and 4nm nodes
What is relevant when we talk about these two parameters are the percentages that reflect to what extent do they increase against the previous generation of chips, but it is clear that we will still have to wait for this information about Zen 5.
AMD has also anticipated us that the front end of Zen 5 processors will use a different strategy to contribute to the performance increase that we have talked about in the previous paragraphs. In broad strokes and without going into complicated details, the front end is responsible for collecting the instructions from the main memory or the cache and decoding them so that later can be processed by the execution engine, which is also known as back end.
The ‘front end’ is responsible for collecting the instructions from the main memory or the cache and decoding them so that they can later be processed by the execution engine or ‘back end’
In addition, the slide that gives us these clues also reveals that the logic of Zen 5 directly involved in the execution of the artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms will implement optimizations that will not be present in Zen 4. It is what can be expected if we keep in mind that the relevance of these algorithms is increasing.
Zen 4 promises us an increase in performance / watt of more than 25%
The scope of AMD’s latest announcements hasn’t just fed our expectations for Zen 5 microarchitecture processors. As we’ve seen, Zen 4 chips will arrive later this year, so it’s a good time to officially get ahead of the game. some of its features. According to AMD these CPUs will be able to execute a higher number of instructions per clock cycle (between an additional 8 and 10% versus Zen 3 processors).
In addition, its performance in single-threaded execution scenarios will exceed Zen 3 by more than 15%, and the maximum memory bandwidth that each of the CPU cores will have available will be up to 125% higher. Sounds good. Lastly, Ryzen 7000 processors will implement specific ISA extensions for AVX-512 and AI algorithms.
In the last slide, AMD promises us that Zen 4 will deliver a 25% performance per watt increase over comparable Zen 3 microarchitecture processors. And its overall performance increase over Ryzen 5000 chips will fluctuate around 35%. There is no doubt that these figures are attractive, but the most prudent thing is that we moderate our expectations until we have the opportunity to thoroughly analyze the next Ryzen 7000. Next date: end of 2022.
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