AMD shows a Ryzen 7000 processor that clocks at 5.5 GHz
At Computex, AMD shows little news about the upcoming processor generation with the codename Raphael. The chips of the Ryzen 7000 series are supposed to arrive in fall.
Right up front: AMD has not shared much information about the Ryzen 7000 processors. It is still unclear how many processors the lineup will contain at launch. The names of the processors and an exact launch date are also missing. At least we now know that it will be in the fall.
It is clear that the Ryzen 7000 series supports PCIe Gen5 as well as DDR 5. The Zen4 architecture is said to offer more than 15 percent single-thread uplift. The footnotes to the show state that this value comes from a comparison between the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X and a pre-production sample of the Ryzen 7000 series with 16 cores as well.
AMD doubles the L2 cache to 1 MB per core and the processors should be capable of a maximum clock of over 5 GHz. Two Zen 4 chips, which were manufactured in a 5 nm process, as well as an I/O die with a 6 nm structure size make up a Ryzen 7000 processor. The integrated RDNA-2 graphics as well as the DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 controllers are located on the I/O Die.
To substantiate the values, AMD shows a short gameplay clip of "GhostWire: Tokyo". Here, the unknown Ryzen 7000 CPU runs with up to 5.5 GHz. However, it is unclear on how many cores.
In another example, AMD shows how a Ryzen 7000 processor renders a scene in the 3D graphics suite Blender 31 percent faster than an Intel Core i9-12900K.
More info is not available at this point. AMD promises to reveal more details in the months leading up to launch. Until then, you should take the promised values with a grain of salt. Personally, I'm a bit disappointed that AMD presented so little new.
You can watch the keynote here:
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