The 5-nanometer manufacturing process also reached the x86 market with AMD announcing today the Ryzen 7000 – the company’s new desktop processor family based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture.
The first promise the company made about these processors is a 15% improvement in single-core performance, which it did compared to what has so far been considered its flagship processor, the Ryzen 9 5950X with its 16 cores, though it’s unclear how much this performance improvement is related to the core itself. Because the company ensured that processors in the new family would cross the 5.5 GHz line at their turbo speeds, and that all cores would be performance cores.
The announcement also tells of the move to the new chassis, AM5 – although it will be possible to continue using fans that are adapted to AM4. This change means moving from using DDR4 to DDR5 memory, without back-end support like Intel’s Alder Lake processors, support for 24 PCIe 5 channels directly from the processor, 16 of the channels for a graphics card and the others for storage that is also directly connected in part with a holder M.2 NVMe, and also a graphics chip based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. In addition, the TDP that the bracket will support is 170 watts.
As in previous generations of processors, the Ryzen 7000 will consist of two interconnected computing cores, which are manufactured in TSMC and as mentioned in 5 nanometer lithography, as well as an I / O chip, this time manufactured in 6 nanometers instead of 12 nanometers as in generations Ryzen’s previous. There is also support for WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, for up to 4 HDMI 2.1 or DisplayPort 2 display connections, and up to 14 USB connections at 20 Gbps, including a USB-C connection.
AMD also introduced the new chipsets: X670 and also its Extreme version, and a cheaper kit called the B650. The Extreme version will offer another 24 PCIe 5.0 channels for a system that is full of advanced channels, while the standard X670 version will add another 20 PCIe 4.0 channels to the processor’s direct channels, and the B650 will offer PCIe 4.0 connections for the graphics card and storage, and PCI3 3.0 for the rest of the system.