Progress never halts; while the Zen 5 CPU has not been released yet, speculation about the Zen 6 architecture is already rampant. Innovations in processes, transistor fabrication and packaging, and the integration of energy-efficient and high-performance cores in hybrid architectures are advancing. Let’s explore what is currently known about the forthcoming Zen 5 processors.
About two years ago, the first rumors about the Zen 5 architecture and the corresponding CPUs began to appear. A year ago, at a presentation, AMD shared plans that included the mobile Ryzen 7000, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Zen 4C and Zen 5.
Subsequently, a roadmap outlining AMD’s processor development up to 2025 and extending into 2026 surfaced online. A month following, rumors began circulating about AMD initiating the preparatory phase for the launch of their Zen 5 processors.
According to harukaze5719, AMD gaming CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture will be released in the fall of 2024. According to other reports, AMD Strix Point and Strix Point Halo processors will be released in 2024. Lisa Su has confirmed the release of EPYC Turin processors based on the Zen 5 architecture in 2024, but there has been no talk of gaming yet.
According to the most recent reports, AMD has begun mass production of next-generation CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture. Another insider claims that the Ryzen 9000 will be released in early 2025 or before the premiere of Intel’s Arrow Lake. Lisa Su again confirmed the release of processors for Zen 5 in the second half of 2024, but did not specify which CPUs she was talking about. It is quite possible that we are talking about server solutions, and desktop ones will appear later.
A year ago, support for AMD Zen 5 processors was added to the HWiNFO utility. And six months later, in AIDA64.
In April 2023, the results of testing the engineering version of the processor based on the AMD Zen 5 architecture were leaked to the network. At the same time, former AMD employee Jim Keller revealed the performance of Zen 5 processors. And Benchleaks showed the first AMD Ryzen 8000 processor.
Features & Models
If we talk about the Zen 5 architecture itself, it is credited with developing from scratch and increasing the amount of cache memory. RedGamingTech believes that Ryzen 8000 processors will receive the biggest IPC boost of any generation of CPUs with the Zen architecture.
AMD’s Kraken Point processors are rumored to get 16 cores based on Zen 5 and Zen 5c. Moore’s Law is Dead believes that Zen 5 in AMD Ryzen 8000 processors will have up to 12 Zen 5/5c cores with 16 RDNA 3 compute units and up to 16 Zen 5 cores with 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units.
In general, the following characteristics are attributed to the line of processors:
- 6 to 16 cores;
- from 65 to 175 watts;
- Up to 64 MB L3 cache and 16 MB L2 cache
- TSMC N3E or N3P process.
AMD Turin server rooms will be available in two models:
- Zen 5 – 16 CCD, 128 cores, 256 threads, 32 MB of L3 cache on CCD.
- Zen 5c (power-efficient) – 12 CCD, 192 cores, 384 threads.
Speaking of specific models, there have been rumors of a 12-core AMD Ryzen 8050 Zen 5 Strix Point and a 16-core Ryzen 8050 Zen 5 Strix Halo with an RDNA 3.5 iGPU. Also, the processors are credited with GeForce RTX 4070-level graphics. There is also talk of good overclocking potential, for example, up to 6 GHz. Zen 5c will be codenamed “Prometheus”.
It is likely that the first products based on the Zen 5 architecture outside the server segment will be Ryzen 8000/9000 mobile processors. For more information, check out an interview with David McAfee for TechPowerUp, AMD’s vice president and head of customer success.
It looks like the B650 and X670 motherboards will support Zen 5 and Zen 6 processors. There is an opinion that the new Xboxes will receive Zen 5 and RDNA 5 architectures.
Update (2024-02-15) | Zen 5 support in GCC compiler
AMD has included support for Zen 5 in the GCC compiler, revealing some features of future chips.
Update (2024-02-21) | Cinebench benchmarks and start of mass production
RedGamingTech has shared presumptive benchmarks of Zen 5 in Cinebench. And the Chinese resource UDN spoke about the possible start date of mass production of Zen 5 on TSMC’s 3nm process – the third quarter of 2024.
Update (02.27.2024) | possible announcement of Zen 5
AMD will hold a presentation at Computex 2024, the announcement of Zen 5 processors is expected. The presentation is scheduled to take place on June 3.
Update (04/01/2024) | Some Fire Range, Strix Point, and Granite Ridge Specs and Single-Thread Performance Boost Forecast
AMD has accidentally revealed some specs of the Zen 5-based Fire Range and Strix Point processors. Also on the network were found mentions of AMD Ryzen Granite Ridge desktop processors based on Zen 5. And Kepler_L2 believes that AMD Zen 5 processors will be 40% faster than their predecessors in single-core tasks.
Update (04/05/2024) | Support on ASUS motherboards
ASUS AM5 motherboards now support the next generation of AMD CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture.
Update (04/10/2024) | AM5 support, performance, and engineering sample photos
ASUS AM5 motherboards now support the next generation of AMD CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture. Moore’s Law Is Dead believes that the performance gains in the Zen 5 generation will be much less than expected. The first “live” photo of an engineering sample of the processor from the Ryzen 9000 Granite Ridge line has been published.
Update (04/12/2024) | Ryzen 9000 can already be tested
According to HXL, the ASUS driver has confirmed that AMD’s next CPUs will be the Ryzen 9000.
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