AMD presented itself proudly at the Financial Analyst Day 2020 – no wonder, after all, among other things over 260 million Zen processors sold to show.
In addition to the usual praise for such events, AMD has also given a look into the future, especially for the new Radeon graphics cards with 50 percent more power per watt, but also for upcoming (Ryzen) CPUs. According to the current roadmap, the plans look like this:
Zen 3 (probably Ryzen 4000 in the desktop area)
- Release: The first CPUs with Zen 3 architecture will appear at the end of 2020
- Production: The production in (optimized) 7nm is used again
- Base: Zen 3 is the last Zen architecture to use the AM4 socket for desktop CPUs, which was introduced in 2017 with Zen (1)
Zen 4 (probably Ryzen 5000 in the desktop area)
- Release: The successor to Zen 3 is expected to appear by the end of 2022
- Production: With Zen 4, AMD relies on a new manufacturing process in 5nm
- Base: Nothing is known about the base yet, but Zen 4 will require the purchase of a new motherboard
AMD Ryzen: what will happen in 2021?
The CPU roadmap presented shows no release next year, but it is Bandwidth of processors with Zen architecture large:
- Desktop CPUs (Ryzen)
- High-end desktop CPUs (Ryzen Threadripper)
- APUs with integrated graphics unit
- Server CPUs (Epyc)
- Notebook CPUs
In addition, AMD speaks in the official press release on the Financial Analyst Day 2020 that "the first" processors based on Zen 3 will appear at the end of 2020, so further models are likely to follow in 2021.
It is not certain whether the Ryzen 3000 successor in the desktop area belongs to these first processors, but we think it is likely.
