https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-ryzen-4000-release-date-specs-performance/ The end of 2020 is set to be a smorgasbord of PC gaming releases. With AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs, new AMD and potentially Nvidia graphics cards, as well as some of the year's biggest game releases all pencilled in for the latter half of the year, we'll be playing beautiful games on even more beautiful gaming PCs by New Year's Eve.
At the heart of our future gaming PCs may well be one of AMD's Ryzen 4000 processors, powered by the upcoming Zen 3 architecture. The successor to the incredibly successful and revolutionary Zen 2 architecture that launched in 2019, Zen 3 is said to be much more than an incremental update—in fact, AMD is promising an "entirely new architecture" with performance to match. But what does that mean for our gaming PCs? We suspect AMD's been judicious with its architectural improvements once again, and that will likely take the form of streamlining on-chip functions for greater instructions per clock (IPC). Combine that with the likelihood of these chips having higher clock speeds too, and you've got the recipe for genuine high-end gaming performance from the red team once more.
AMD Ryzen 4000 release date
AMD has confirmed that both the new Zen 3 CPUs and
RDNA 2 graphics cards are on track for release later this year. When exactly? Our best lead so far is the rescheduled Computex tech show in Taipei, which has now been set for September 28-30 this year.
AMD Ryzen 4000 specs
A new architecture could signal sweeping changes to the Zen architecture in its third iteration. The most significant one that we know of is the use of TSMC's 7nm Enhanced process node, which promises either lower power, higher performance, or a blend of both.
AMD Ryzen 4000 performance
Zen 3 will deliver performance "right in line what you might expect from an entirely new architecture". By that assumption, we're hopefully expecting a 10-15% IPC improvement with Zen 3 over today's chips.
AMD Ryzen 4000 price
The chiplet architecture introduced with Zen 2 has proven itself an effective money-saving measure, and we suspect those savings will carry over to Zen 3, too. Though I wouldn't expect too much of a change from the current pricing structure of the Ryzen 3000 CPUs.
Late 2020. Essentially, by the end of the year. That's AMD's official line on the Zen 3 release date as of May, 2020. The chipmaker's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, confirmed it was
"on track to launch our next-generation Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs in late 2020".
AMD's not one to give the game away ahead of time, so we have an exact date as to Ryzen 4000's availability. Whispers from the grapevine tell of an announcement at the rescheduled Taiwanese tech show, Computex, which is due to take place from September 28-30, 2020. There's little backing up this speculation beyond the fact it's a show AMD has headlined in the past. Either way, the red team is sure to have a large presence at the show—it's never one to disappoint.
Plans may have changed in light of recent shutdown measures, but be sure that these chips are still coming this year. "We quickly adapted our global operations to navigate pockets of supply chain disruption and addressed geographic and market demand shifts caused by COVID-19," Dr. Lisa Su recently confirmed. Benchmarks from the borderlands also pray tell of a new wave of Ryzen 3000 processors,
Matisse Refresh, that could be on the way this Summer. Will that have any impact on Zen 3? Surely not, but they are looking more and more likely with every passing day. The Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 5 3600XT are all reportedly on the way for a June 16 announcement, and are said to come with a 200-300MHz clock speed boost.
Which all together has us confident that Ryzen 4000 pricing will be just as competitive as ever.
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