AMD turns the clock and efficiency screw vigorously.
AMD announced some extremely exciting key data about its upcoming new processors and graphics cards as part of the Financial Analyst Day 2022. Accordingly, the company is working hard on the Ryzen 7000 clock screwwhile the efficiency of Radeon RX 7000 is massively increased over the current RX 6000 accelerators.
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Ryzen 7000 with over 5.5 GHz
Since AMD’s keynote at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), it has been known about the Ryzen 7000 that at least one CPU from the series, probably the top model, can achieve a clock rate of 5.0 GHz on all cores at the same time.
This is what the Ryzen 7000 CPUs look like.
Now AMD has also indicated what we can expect from the maximum clock rate: The company promises 5.5 GHz and more. Of course, this does not apply to all cores at the same time, but to a single core or thread. The leap compared to the current Ryzen 5000 processors is huge either way, because the factory setting is a maximum of 5.0 GHz.
In addition to the clock rate, AMD has also revealed details about the increase in performance: The so-called single-threaded performance increases by more than 15 percent, the performance per clock cycle increases by up to ten percent. Overall, this results in an increase in performance per watt of 25 percent. This is made possible by improvements in the Zen 4 architecture and the use of TSMC’s 5-nanometer manufacturing process.
It is still unclear when we will see the new processors. However, rumors speak of a release towards the end of the year. You can read in the following article that Ryzen 7000 could also have a downside:
Ryzen 7000
Significant increase in performance could have a catch
Radeon RX 7000 increases efficiency by more than 50 percent
There have already been all sorts of rumors about the upcoming new graphics cards of the Radeon RX 7000 series: For example, the GPUs based on the RDNA3 architecture are supposed to break the 3.0 GHz mark and be manufactured in a chiplet design that is revolutionary for graphics processors.
However, as part of yesterday’s presentation, AMD named a number that makes you sit up and take notice again. As a result, the company increases performance per watt with RDNA3 by more than 50 percent compared to RDNA2. All current models of the RX 6000 series are based on RDNA2. And they already marked a huge leap in performance.
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This is made possible by significant improvements in the architecture including the switch to a modern 5-nanometer process from contract manufacturer TSMC. What that means in the end for the performance in games cannot yet be said conclusively, but we can actually hope for a big step. Speaking of which: The market launch of the RX 7000 series is scheduled for this year, as AMD has already confirmed:
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