Thursday, August 8th 2019
AMD Designing Zen 4 for 2021, Zen 3 Completes Design Phase, out in 2020
AMD in its 2nd generation EPYC processor launch event announced that it has completed the design phase of its next-generation "Zen 3" CPU microarchitecture, and is currently working on its successor, the "Zen 4." AMD debuted its "Zen 2" microarchitecture with the client-segment 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor family, it made its enterprise debut with the 2nd generation EPYC. This is the first x86 CPU microarchitecture designed for the 7 nanometer silicon fabrication process, and is being built on a 7 nm DUV (deep ultraviolet) node at TSMC. It brings about double-digit percentage IPC improvements over "Zen+."
The "Zen 3" microarchitecture is designed for the next big process technology change within 7 nm, EUV (extreme ultraviolet), which allows significant increases in transistor densities, and could facilitate big improvements in energy-efficiency that could be leveraged to increase clock-speeds and performance. It could also feature new ISA instruction-sets. With "Zen 3" passing design phase, AMD will work on prototyping and testing it. The first "Zen 3" products could debut in 2020. "Zen 4" is being designed for a different era.
The "Zen 4" architecture is being designed for a 2021 market debut, and will come out at a time when the 7 nm process will have matured and attained high enough volumes at TSMC for AMD to either build bigger dies (more cores per chiplet), or leverage the even more advanced 6 nm EUV node. The maturity and volumes of these sub-10 nm nodes could change the economics of the MCM approach AMD is undertaking for its EPYC processors.
The "Zen 3" microarchitecture is designed for the next big process technology change within 7 nm, EUV (extreme ultraviolet), which allows significant increases in transistor densities, and could facilitate big improvements in energy-efficiency that could be leveraged to increase clock-speeds and performance. It could also feature new ISA instruction-sets. With "Zen 3" passing design phase, AMD will work on prototyping and testing it. The first "Zen 3" products could debut in 2020. "Zen 4" is being designed for a different era.
85 Comments on AMD Designing Zen 4 for 2021, Zen 3 Completes Design Phase, out in 2020
And no hype in the news post that I can see, it's just letting us know that AMD has finalised it's next gen CPU design and is working on the one after that. Intel does this all the time, no?
Also, @70% in this thread, just report earl for making a baseless fanboy remark.
Dont actually quote and reply to such a silly comment.
AMD's current gen seems to be ahead in everything else
I'm still curious if putting the first 8 cores on the IO would improve gaming performance (if it was all 7 nm). Some drawbacks with doing this, and some would say it's a step backwards, but i guess it could improve latencies.
EPYC 2 is much more than that, let me cite Anand who actually ran the tests:
So has AMD done the unthinkable? Beaten Intel by such a large margin that there is no contest? For now, based on our preliminary testing, that is the case. The launch of AMD's second generation EPYC processors is nothing short of historic, beating the competition by a large margin in almost every metric: performance, performance per watt and performance per dollar.
web,office,encoding,doesn't seem like ryzen is ahead,or at least it isn't most of the time.if you include rendering and software development charts in a review of 3700x then sure,it's gonna get ahead of 9700k on average.
you may consider changing your name in near future to "my_name_was_intel"
Or we don't know, but we write an article anyway because of page clicks?
People are mistaking Ryzen 3000 vs Intel with higher clock, to server chips, which run at close clock.
AMD Have said roadmap is still valid and we're executing it according to what we said in 2016.
Amd have said 2020 will be same socket.
www.storagereview.com/images/AMD%20datacenter%20roadmap%20EPYC.png
That means Zen3 on server platform will be DDR4 in 2020.
That is what we know for sure.
I wonder what Zen 3 will mean for us consumers? I can only hope that they can get clock speeds much higher. AMD may have beaten Intel in the IPC department; unfortunately, Intel has AMD beat in terms of clock speed which makes up for Intel's IPC deficit. AMD really needs to get clock speeds much closer to 5 GHz.