AMD has confirmed that all of their upcoming 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 series processors featuring the Zen 2 core architecture will feature a soldered design. Since the launch of their 1st generation, the Ryzen series has been utilizing a soldered design which helps deliver better thermal results when compared to traditional TIM application.

AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs To Utilize Soldered IHS With Gold Plating To Deliver Better Thermals & Overclocking Results

AMD has so far used solder on all of their Ryzen CPUs, Ryzen Theadripper CPUs and the upcoming Ryzen 'Picasso' APUs are also confirmed to feature Soldered IHS. Continuing the tradition, AMD will also feature solder IHS on their upcoming Ryzen 3000 series processors which are based on the Zen 2 core and supported by the X570 platform. This was confirmed by AMD's Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Robert Hallock:

Soldered like a boss.

— Robert Hallock? (@Thracks) May 28, 2019

AMD is known to utilize a very high-quality solder design on their processors which includes gold plating and silicone protected capacitors which offer better durability and proper contact with the integrated heat spreader to dissipate heat more effectively to the cooling solution. AMD's rivals at Intel had until recently been using high-quality TIM (Thermal Interface Material) which wasn't up to the same quality as solder but the recent 9th Generation Unlocked K-series processors did include soldered IHS and gold plating which resulted in better thermal results.

Since soldered designs help scrape off a few degrees from the thermal load, that extra headroom can be used for overclocking the chip which in the case of Ryzen 3000 is looking to be stellar given the reports we have seen so far. Also, the solder would be interesting since AMD has three chips on each of their Ryzen 3000 CPUs, two Zen 2 dies and an I/O die. The Zen 2 CCX is configured with 4 cores and there's 2 CCX per Zen 2 die. So the 8 core parts can be configured with a single Zen 2 die while the 8+ cores will be configured with two Zen 2 dies. AMD has experience with soldering a chip with various dies before as their Ryzen Threadripper series which also makes use of solder has a total of 4 Zen/Zen+ chiplets on the interposer.

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Why Do Overclockers Delid Their CPUs?

Delidding became hugely popularity after Intel introduced its Haswell family of Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs which infamously ran very hot. In an effort by overclockers to identify why these chips ran as hot as they did and to try and improve their thermal performance many proceeded to delid their chips. This revealed the culprit behind the unusually high temperatures of Haswell which was that Intel had forgone soldering the IHS onto the die and resorted to using a thermal compound instead as a cost-cutting measure.

Almost the entire Ryzen and Ryen Threadripper CPU lineup have featured a soldered IHS design which delivers much better thermal dissipation than standard TIM application based processors.

While Intel has followed into AMD's footsteps, people still try to delid their processor and use high-quality liquid metal thermal pastes which delivers up to 20 degrees lower temperature compared to the standard TIM applications. However, one of the downsides of the soldered design is that it will become really hard to delid the chip as there's always the risk of breaking the die itself which already happened when one leaker tried to delid the Ryzen 3 3200G APU. However, I feel that there is no real need for delidding an already soldered part since you're already benefiting from a much better design than standard TIM.

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