AMD held the Ryzen brand’s 5th-anniversary celebration on October 12th. The official release of a video showed AMD’s Chief Marketing Officer Jonh Taylor and technical marketing Interview with Director Robert Hallock. In the video, the official said that a new processor equipped with 3D V-Cache technology will be launched in 2022, and it is expected to still use the Zen3 architecture.
Moreover, there will also be a brand-new Ryzen processor expected to be the Zen4 architecture, which will be replaced with a new AM5 CPU socket to support DDR5 memory. AMD 3D V-Cache “3D Vertical Cache” technology was released on June 1, 2021. This technology uses a cascading method to build a CPU cache to achieve several times the capacity increase. At the same time, the bandwidth of its signal transmission with the CPU can reach 2TB/s.
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This packaged cache is tightly packaged with the CPU core CCD, and each CCD can obtain up to 96MB of cache. At present, the official prototype product based on the Ryzen R9-5900X CPU has been manufactured. AMD did not announce in the video that the name of the new processor is Ryzen 5000 or 6000 series, and it is expected that the new product will continue to use the current AM4 interface.
Besides, AMD will use the new AM5 processor interface in the future, removing the pins of the CPU for the first time, but transferring it to the socket on the motherboard, using a design similar to Intel processors. The first processor equipped with the AM5 interface is expected to be the Ryzen 6000 or 7000 series, using the Zen4 architecture, code-named “Raphael”.
In the Ryzen 5th anniversary video, AMD announced that the AM5 interface processor will also be launched in 2022. It will not only support DDR5 memory but also PCIe 5.0 channels, consistent with Intel’s 12th generation Core. Hallock responded that the previous rumors that the Zen4 “Raphael” processor only supports PCIe 4.0 are not true because the leaked information only represents the motherboard chipset.
In addition, Hallock also revealed that AMD will launch a new generation of Ryzen notebook processors in 2022, further improving energy efficiency. AMD will apply a variety of new algorithms in the new processor to flexibly schedule the CPU for different workloads and achieve more energy saving. The name of the new function is tentatively designated as “Power Management Framework”, but the official name has not yet been determined.
