AMD is all set to launch new 5nm based Zen 4 Raphael processors next year, and that will be a huge improvement over the current Zen 3. However, enthusiasts might be a little heartbroken because, yes, rumours float around that next-gen processors will still be limited to 16 cores only.
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Numerous early leaks have come out about these AMD Zen 4 Raphael processors, thanks to ExecutableFix, who has recently claimed that AMD’s upcoming Zen4 based series for desktops will be limited to 16 cores.
So, as we previously thought that we could end up seeing 3 compute tiles being used to increase the core count up to 24 cores with AMD’s 3D V-Cache stack chiplet technology; however, much like the Ryzen 9 5950X, the next-gen will also have up to same amount of cores.
This info contradicts the information that Gamers Nexus received back in March 2020, where we saw the slides mentioning two Zen4 CCDs codenamed Durango, each with 8 cores and 16 threads.
So, Intel and AMD would have a head-to-head battle as both of them will have 16 core flagship processors as Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPUs will also have 16 cores but 8 of them being high-efficiency other 8 being high-performance cores. Intel is doing well, though, its flagship Core i9-12900K beating Ryzen 9 5950X already.
Zen 4 is now supposed to give around a 20% IPC increase over last year’s Zen 3, and this kind of jump is expected because of the leap in architecture. Not only this, the architecture will allow Zen 4 CPUs will feature 8 core chiplets, so expect around 50% performance per watt gains between Zen 3 and Zen 4.
Now another leaker, Patrick Schur, has also confirmed AMD Raphael CPUs will sport up to 16 cores, and the interesting part is that the TDP will go up to 170W. It is also confirmed that AMD’s Zen 4 based CPUs will use TSMC’s 5nm process node & the IOD will be based on TSMC’s 6nm process node.
Coming to the new AM5 platform, new motherboards will feature the LGA1718 socket, so gone are the days of PGA as AMD like Intel will also use an LGA (land grid array) format and that could increase motherboard prices as well. It also supports DDR5-5200 RAMs, 28 PCIe Gen 4.0 lanes, more NVMe 4.0 & maybe support for USB 4.0.
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