Taking the stage today at Computex 2022, AMD made a number of announcements, including details on its upcoming Ryzen 7000 desktop processor series, as well as several new technologies and details on the laptops.
Starting with desktop things, AMD hasn’t shared information on exact SKUs or an architectural breakdown of Ryzen 7000 parts. However, the company did mention several key features and motherboard details.
The Ryzen 7000 series processors will be based on AMD’s new 5nm Zen 4 architecture. The new processors will have double the L2 cache per core, taking it from 512KB per core to 1MB. AMD also claims to increase single-threaded performance by more than 15 percent.
The big claim of the night is the increase in clock speed. AMD is claiming clock speeds above 5 GHz when gaming. In a demonstration that ran Ghostwire: Tokyo, an unidentified 16-core processor from the 7000 series was able to achieve clock speeds of up to 5.5 GHz.
Running an all-core Blender workload, AMD was able to demonstrate 30% faster render time in a custom test on the same 16-core 7000 series processor as before compared to the Core i9-12900K.
In addition to the 5nm Zen 4 compute die, the processor will also have a new 6nm I / O die. This includes AMD RDNA 2 based graphics, which will be a standard feature on all Ryzen 7000 processors. The new I / O die also allows support for features such as DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.
AMD has also delved a bit into the Socket AM5 platform, which will house the Ryzen 7000 and presumably future Ryzen processors. AMD, however, has not provided certain information on future compatibility for this platform.
The biggest change to the socket is the switch from PGA to LGA, which means the pins will now be on the motherboard instead of the CPU. It will have 1718 pins and native support for parts with TDP up to 170 W. Despite the change in design, the AM5 will be compatible with AM4 heatsinks.
AM5 motherboards will offer 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes, up to 14 Superspeed USB 20Gbps and Type-C ports, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 LE, and up to 4 HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 ports.
AMD has announced three new chipsets for AM5 motherboards. At the top of the range is the X670E, which will feature all the new features and most connectivity options with PCIe 5.0 available for two graphics slots and one for storage. Next up is the X670, which provides PCIe 5.0 lanes for a storage slot and optionally for graphics. Finally, there’s the budget-oriented B650, which will offer PCIe 5.0 for storage only.
The motherboards will be available from all major OEM partners. AMD has also promised the availability of PCIe 5.0 storage before the Ryzen 7000 hits shelves. They will have sequential read speeds up to 60% faster than 4.0 drives.
In addition to the desktop ads, AMD also had other ads to share. The company will release the new “Mendocino” series of laptop processors in the $ 400 to $ 700 price range. These will be equipped with Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics.
AMD also announced AMD SmartAccess Storage, which is based on Microsoft’s DirectStorage and uses AMD Smart Access Memory and other AMD technologies to accelerate game load times and texture streaming.
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