From one editorial office to another, Robert Hallock provided a “after-sales service” presentation last Monday.
Robert Hallock, AMD’s Technical Marketing Director, has provided various explanations / corrections since the relatively evasive presentation of the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 at Computex. We already told you about it this weekend. For this generation, TDP, not PPT, climbs up to 170 W for certain references, compared to 105 W for the current range. Robert Hallock also clarified other points during interviews provided to various media.
Basically, we now know that the Ryzen 7000 supports AVX-512 instructions (“AVX 512 VNNI for neural networks and AVX 512 BFloat16 for derivation” labeled Robert Hallock in the TechPowerUp columns); that offer up to 16 cores / 32 threads.
Commenting on the 15% performance increase that the company promoted during the presentation, Robert Hallock confirmed that this value applies to single core performance; that it was voluntarily raised the lowest so as not to disappoint.
The standard will be iGPU
In terms of iGPU integration, the first for this type of processor at AMD, it will be a standard rather than a special feature. Robert Hallock said about it: “IGP is standard. It is part of all 6 nanometer IO chips, which contain a small number of built-in computing units, specifically to enable video encoding and decoding and multiple outputs on the display. […] For enthusiasts, this will help diagnose the faulty graphics card to get the system back up while you are still waiting for the GPU to appear. The [spécifications] iGPU configurations are uniform and will have all processors. »
Long service life of the AM5 socket
Finally, Robert Hallock was asked in an interview with Forbes / CrazyTechLab about the life of the AM5 socket. When asked if it would be as long as AM4 (5 years; four generations of processors), he said: “I don’t know yet – that’s an honest answer.” AM5 is still in its infancy. It will come out in the fall, but it’s still a long way off. […] Our users expect transparency in this topic. But we don’t have an answer yet. »
generation AMD Ryzen
| Code name | Matisse | Vermeer | Vermeer-X3D | Raphael | Granite ridge |
| CPU architecture | 7nm Zen2 | 7nm Zen3 | 7nm Zen3D | 5nm Zen4 | Zen5 |
| AMD Ryzen series | Ryzen 3000 | Ryzen 5000 | Ryzen 5000X3D | Ryzen 7000 | Ryzen 8000 |
| iGPU | – | – | – | 4CU (?) RDNA2 | To be determined |
| Maximum number of cores | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | To be determined |
| Socket | AM4 | AM4 | AM4 | AM5 | AM5 |
| storage media | DDR4 | DDR4 | DDR4 | DDR5 | DDR5 |
| Maximum PTT | 142 W | 142 W | 142 W | 230W | 230W (?) |
| Maximum TDP | 105W | 105W | 105W | 170W | 170W (?) |
| PCIe Gen | PCIe Gen4 | PCIe Gen4 | PCIe Gen4 | PCIe Gen5 | PCIe Gen5 |
| Chipsets | AMD 400 | AMD 500 | AMD 500 | AMD 600 | To be determined |
| Date of publication | July 2019 | November 2020 | April 2022 | Autumn 2022 | 2023 |
Sources: TechPowerUP, CrazyTechLab, HotHardware, PCWorld