AMD has developed a desktop kit that goes by the name of AMD 4700S Desktop Kit and the manufacturer stated that nearly 80 systems based on this new Desktop kit will come out in the market under official sales.
AMD’s 4700S Desktop Kit comes with a chip, motherboard, memory, and a cooler. The strange details are that almost all of the specifications about the 4700S come from leaks and speculations and there was no usual press release conduction by AMD for this product.
It’s also weird that the new desktop kit uses a similar processor to the Sony PlayStation 5 with some swapped IP blocks, however, it comes with a disabled GPU.
We expect to see over 80 designs come to market from our SI [System Integrator] partners beginning on June 24th. Prices of these systems will be announced by our SI partners in due course.” – AMD representative.
Currently, the first systems based on the 4700S are already available on the open market, but only in certain areas of Asia. The 7nm 4700S Desktop Kit’s chip has eight Zen 2 cores with 16 threads and uses GDDR6 (8GB or 16GB) instead of the DDR4 memory found in modern PCs. With its similarities to PS5’s chip, many have speculated that the 4700S is merely a defective PS5 SoC which AMD has repurposed. During this time of chip shortage, the above move by AMD makes a little sense.
“AMD 4700S Desktop Kit is its unique solution, designed to address the desire for robust, high-core count performance in the mainstream market – ideal for multitasking, productivity, and light 3D workflows.” – AMD representative.it seems that AMD is currently reluctant to share any kind of details regarding the 4700S Desktop Kit and the company has also avoided using any Ryzen branding around the kit. So let’s what will be the capabilities of the chip in the new kit
