During its Q2 2021 investors call, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, confirmed that their next-generation Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs and RDNA 3 Radeon RX GPUs are on track for launch in 2022.

AMD Reaffirms That Its Next-Gen 5nm Zen 4 'Ryzen' CPUs & RDNA 3 'Radeon RX' GPUs Are On Track For Launch in 2022

The AMD Zen 4 and RDNA 3 core architectures will lay the foundation for next-generation CPUs & GPUs. AMD will use these two IPs to power its Ryzen and Radeon 2022 lineup which means that it will be a grand year of high-performance launches from AMD once again. To make things fun, AMD will have not one but two brand new Ryzen Desktop families in 2022, one based on Zen 3 with 3D V-Cache and one based on Zen 4 known as Raphael.

We remain on-track to launch next-generation products in 2022, including our Zen 4 processors built with industry-leading 5nm process technology and our RDNA 3 GPUs.

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su

As for AMD's GPU family, we can expect the next-gen Radeon RX (7000) series to pack a whole lot of performance and being the first gaming chips in the industry to rock an MCM (Multi-Chip Module) design.

With that said, AMD did state that supply constraints will continue till throughout 2021 and things will ease down with the start of 2022. Regardless, AMD believes that it can grow substantially in the second half of 2021. AMD also highlighted that it has begun initial shipments of its next-gen CDNA 2 architecture-based Instinct MI200 accelerator.

Here's Everything We Know About AMD's Raphael Ryzen 'Zen 4' Desktop CPUs

The next-generation Zen 4 based Ryzen Desktop CPUs will be codenamed Raphael and will replace the Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs that are codenamed, Vermeer. From the information we currently have, Raphael CPUs will be based on the 5nm Zen 4 core architecture & will feature 6nm I/O dies in a chiplet design. AMD has hinted at upping the core counts of its next-gen mainstream desktop CPUs so we can expect a slight bump from the current max of 16 cores and 32 threads.

The brand new Zen 4 architecture is rumored to deliver up to 25% IPC gain over Zen 3 and hit clock speeds of around 5 GHz.

‘Mark, Mike, and the teams have done a phenomenal job. We are as good as we are with the product today, but with our ambitious roadmaps, we are focusing on Zen 4 and Zen 5 to be extremely competitive.

‘There will be more core counts in the future – I would not say those are the limits! It will come as we scale the rest of the system.’

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su via Anandtech

AMD's Rick Bergman on Next-Gen Zen 4 Cores For Ryzen CPUs

Q- How much of the performance gains delivered by AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs, which are expected to use a 5nm TSMC process and might arrive in early 2022, will come from instructions per clock (IPC) gains as opposed to core count and clock speed increases.

Bergman: “[Given] the maturity of the x86 architecture now, the answer has to be, kind of, all of the above. If you looked at our technical document on Zen 3, it was this long list of things that we did to get that 19% [IPC gain].Zen 4is going to have a similar long list of things, where you look at everything from the caches, to the branch prediction, [to] the number of gates in the execution pipeline. Everything is scrutinized to squeeze more performance out.”

“Certainly [manufacturing] process opens an additional door for us to [obtain] better performance-per-watt and so on, and we'll take advantage of that as well.”

AMD EVP, Rick Bergman, via The Street

The Raphael Ryzen Desktop CPUs are also expected to feature RDNA 2 onboard graphics which means that just like Intel's mainstream desktop lineup, AMD's mainstream lineup will also feature iGPU graphics support. As for the platform itself, we will be getting the brand new AM5 platform which will feature support for DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. The Zen 4 based Raphael Ryzen CPUs aren't expected till late 2022 so there's still a lot of time left in the launch. The lineup will compete against Intel's Raptor Lake 13th Gen Desktop CPU lineup.

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