As we enter the second half of 2023, the AMD Ryzen 8000 series processors have generated a lot of buzz, especially as we get closer to their expected launch next year.
AMD’s Ryzen processors are widely acclaimed for their impressive performance and competitive pricing, not to mention innovations like 3D V-Cache technology that make Ryzen processors the best processors for gaming on the market. With the Ryzen 8000 series on the horizon, expectations are high, especially as AMD is moving to more advanced TSMC silicon fabrication with its Zen 5 architecture.
However, as with all news and rumors, it’s important to separate unfounded speculation from legitimate reports and news that usually leak from the shuttered AMD. Here we bundle up everything we know to give readers a clear and precise look at what to expect from the AMD Ryzen 8000 series.
AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Getting to the Point
What is it? Next generation of AMD processorsHow much is this for? Unknown, but expected to range from around $230 / £175 / AU$345 for the Ryzen 5 8600 to over $700 (about £650 / AU$1,150) for the Ryzen 9 8950X3D.When can I get it? When it launches, the Ryzen 8000 series will be available in the US, UK and Australia
AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Latest News AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Release Date (Image credit: AMD) There’s no official release date for the AMD Ryzen 8000 series, but we know from AMD’s roadmap that it’s due for release in 2024.
Given the typical 12 to 18-month cadence of generational CPU releases, March 2024 will see an 18-month AMD Ryzen 7000 series release, and that’s not an unrealistic projection, although this time around it may take longer than usual between releases.
According to AMD, Zen 5 will be a completely reworked architecture, so it could potentially take longer than your standard CPU release cycle. The desktop processor line, codenamed Granite Ridge, and the mobile processor line, codenamed Strix Point, are also likely to be launched separately.
AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Specifications
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We know very little about the AMD Ryzen 8000 series’ specifications at this point, except that it will be built using AMD’s Zen 5 architecture and have an integrated RDNA 3.5 GPU, which is AMD’s pretty way of iteratively improving over the current RDNA 3 GPU architecture, but not enough to warrant a new generation of hardware.
It’s been speculated for some time that the Ryzen 8000 series will be built on TSMC’s 4nm process node, but it now looks like it will use the more advanced 3nm node instead.
We also know that AMD has acquired AI company Xilinx in 2021 and more AI optimizations are expected to be set for the Zen 5.
We also expect AMD to stick with its non-hybrid approach for Zen 5, like Zen 4 and unlike Intel’s 12th and 13th generation processors, which use a hybrid of efficiency and performance cores.
All Zen 5 cores are expected to be performance cores, although the die configuration may be new, with a multi-chip module architecture that we know AMD has already incorporated into its RDNA 3 graphics cards.
AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Performance
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Given how AMD says it’s rebuilding its Zen 5 architecture from the ground up, there’s no telling what performance boosts the Ryzen 7000 series will bring compared to the Zen 4 architecture.
We hope it will be important. AMD has invented many techniques in chip design, from multi-chip modules (chiplets) to stacked, vertical architectures, as seen in 3D V-cache technology.
We expect AMD to bring all of this to Zen 5 and build these new chips around these technologies, rather than cramming them into existing architectures that weren’t designed with this technology in mind.
Does it mean better performance? It certainly should, especially when paired with the 3nm process compared to the 5nm process in the AMD Zen 4.
AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: What to Expect At the moment there is not much information about it apart from the arrival of AMD Ryzen 8000 series. Whether it will be called the Ryzen 8000 series is also not certain, though it’s unlikely that AMD will mess with its model numbering scheme too much (although, it’s done it before, almost completely abandoning the Ryzen 4000 series in favor of the Ryzen 5000 series).
We also expect it to go up against Intel’s Arrow Lake processors, which are due in 2024, although the Ryzen 8000 series should hit the market before Intel’s 15th generation chips.
In addition, we expect to see greater integration of AMD’s innovative designs around the chip microarchitecture with Zen 5, rather than splitting the product stack between the mainline Ryzen 8000 series processors and 3D brand variants with 3D V-Cache.
Either way, we’ll keep you updated with the latest news as it comes in.
