- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D –> April 20
- AMD Ryzen 5700X/5600/5500/4600G/4500/4100 -> April 4
- AMD Ryzen 5700/5100/4700 -> April
As we can see, in principle the most anticipated will be the last to arrive. The presentation seems to be joint on the 15th of this month, that is Tuesday, when they will hit the market in April, which leaves Zen 4 for the third quarter of the year, if not the fourth, so Intel would again arrive first with Raptor Lake.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
We won’t dwell too long here, since AMD has already officially presented it at CES 2022 and there’s not much to say about it beyond the price, which is still controversial as we saw this week. 449 dollars which are surely 550 dollars in store already including tax.
This will be AMD’s top of the line for gaming, the fastest and by far the most direct competitor to the i9-12900K and possibly the i9-12900KS. With 4.5 GHz in its 8 cores and 16 threads, the 96 MB of L3 and only 105 watts of TDP, it is undoubtedly the centerpiece that AMD will keep until its replacements arrive in AM5. This CPU will be, for the moment, the only one available to AMD with the Zen 3 Vermeer-X architecture.
Ryzen 7 5700X, Ryzen 7 5700, Ryzen 5 5600, Ryzen 5 5500 and Ryzen 3 5100
Be careful here because although all the architectures are Zen 3, the micro architecture is not, so we will break them down:
- Ryzen 7 5700X -> Vermer
- Ryzen7 5700 -> Cezanne
- Ryzen 5 5600 -> Vermer
- Ryzen 5 5500 -> Cezanne
- Ryzen 3 5100 -> Cezanne
The differences here beyond their specs are that logically the Cezanne CPUs are presupposed with iGPU, while the Vermeers are a refresh in terms of market segmentation share. The Ryzen 7 5700X is an 8-core, 16-thread processor up to 4.6 GHz with 65 watts and $299.
Its little brother will be technically the same except that it integrates half of the L3 cache (16 MB), we don’t know which iGPU it has, nor its price.
Continuing the progression we have the Ryzen 5 5600, also Vermeer and therefore without iGPU, but with 6 cores and 12 threads, up to 4.4 GHz, 32 MB of L3, 65W and a price of only 199 dollars. On the other hand, its little brother the Ryzen 5 5500 will be Cézanne, with iGPU (unknown) 6/12 at 4.2 GHz and 16 MB of L3, as well as 65 watts. The price is stipulated at 159 dollars.
Finally, in this 5000 series we have the Ryzen 3 5100, a quad core with SMT which is only known to have a TDP of 65 watts.
Ryzen 7 4700, Ryzen 5 4600G, Ryzen 5 4500, Ryzen 3 4100
Here we have the entire Renoir-X series, which are the same processors that are currently on the market with the letter G (4700G, 4600G, 4300G) and they only have two key differences: none have an iGPU and frequencies may vary between .named models.
Thus, the Ryzen 7 4700 is exactly the 4700G without iGPU and without price, while the Ryzen 5 4500 is the 4600G but with 100 MHz more than the second (4.1 GHz against 4.2 GHz) and logically without iGPU.
Finally, the Ryzen 3 4100 is the exact same CPU as the 4300G without the named iGPU and its price is also unknown to us. That said, we will have to wait until Tuesday for the missing details.
