Zen 4 and RDNA 3: AMD talks about the future of Ryzen and Radeon

Rick Bergman, in his role as AMD Vice President responsible for high-performance PCs, games and semi-custom business areas, spoke to us in an interview The street, a financial and business news website, about Zen 4 and RDNA 3, the future of Ryzen and Radeon. Both should be faster.

What is once again being sold as sensational news in many places and advertised to become the next “hype” was actually predictable, and the architectural improvements that were now in perspective were ultimately not surprising. In addition to any future plans, Bergman commented on the launch of Zen 3 and RDNA 2.

Zen 3 with a good start

With the Ryzen 5000 series (test) and Zen 3, AMD has just grown significantly and for the first time in years has set itself the top performance in the areas of single-core performance and, above all, gaming.

The Radeon RX 6000 series, which is expected to compete with the GeForce RTX 3000 series “Gaming Ampere”, is to receive early early praise and manufacturer benchmarks from the 18th based on the Navi 21 and RDNA 2 GPU. November, however, has yet to be confirmed. in independent tests.

At least one at AMD is very happy with the start of the Zen 3 CPUs, Bergman says.

We knew that the Zen 3 core was great and we knew that once the launch happened and the journalist community could report their benchmarks, but not ours, which would only increase the excitement.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

AMD’s Executive Vice President Computing and Graphics is also confident about the availability of the Ryzen 5000, even if it qualifies, “there are only as many products as we can highlight on the first day“. But AMD has a”great offer scope“Why the manufacturer”has been planning for a while for this dayHowever, AMD cannot predict availability, Bergman said.

We’ve been planning this day for a while, so we’ve brought a lot of supply, especially compared to other launches we’ve done. As far as we have planned, we can only get so much product [out] the first day.

But again, we have a lot. We have a lot coming up every day – if it keeps running out, I can’t keep predicting it – I’ll just tell you we have a very good amount of offer coming up.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

However, the former CEO of Synaptics confirmed that AMD is currently “focused on this particular area“.

New Zen 3-based HEDT CPUs are on the way

When asked about the upcoming Zen 3 CPUs of the “Genesis Peak” type for the HEDT platform, which will be the successor to Ryzen Threadripper 3000 (test), Bergman expressed a clear commitment from AMD.

I can’t talk about unannounced products, but we’re committed to the Threadripper family. And so it can certainly be expected that we will continue to have products in that particular area in the future. Absolutely.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

Careful observers should have noted that the first engineering samples of Castle Peak’s successor have already appeared in the rumor mill.

AMD keeps Zen 3 Refresh open

As with Matisse and the Ryzen 3000 series (test), AMD is also maintaining an update in the form of open XT models for Zen 3 and Ryzen 5000. It was only on July 7 that the manufacturer unveiled the Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 5 3600XT (test), optimized models of its Zen 2 CPUs with a higher clock rate.

AMD deliberately keeps this Ryzen 5000 upgrade option open by upgrading the CPUs. A 19% increase in CPI, as achieved by moving from Zen 2 to Zen 3, cannot be achieved every year, according to Bergman.

Yes, absolutely … In part, we always want to keep raising the bar. The 5000 had the luxury of having a new Zen core and there is a 19% CPI increase. You would love to do this every year, but it only happens every now and then. I mean, it was the biggest IPC hike we’ve had in the Zen era for AMD.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

Zen 4 and RDNA 3 are still dreams of the future

As for Zen 4 and the expected performance increase, the AMD board member added: “The new manufacturing process will certainly open another door for us to achieve better performance per watt“. Furthermore, “Zen 4 has a similar long list“To have improvements like Zen 3.

If you looked at our Zen 3 tech paper, it was this long list of things we did to get that 19% IPC gain. Zen 4 will have a long list of similar things, where you look at everything from caches, to branch prediction, [to] the number of ports in the execution pipeline. Everything is scrutinized for more performance.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

Regarding RDNA 3, Bergman stated that for RDNA 2 AMD has a “rather aggressively targeted performance improvement per watt“The company will work towards the same increase for RDNA 3.

Let’s take a step back and talk about the benefits of both. So why we have been targeting performance per watt rather aggressively [improvements for] our RDNA 2 [GPUs]. And then yes, we have the same commitment on RDNA 3.

Rick Bergman, vice president of AMD

Zen 4 in 5 nm and RDNA 3 by the end of 2022

At Financial Analyst Day 2020, AMD has already shown a first perspective in the form of a roadmap that roughly outlined the future until the end of 2022. The new CPU and GPU architectures Zen 4 and RDNA 3 are expected to appear by the end of 2022.

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