While we may be looking at upgrades to DDR5 RAM and PCIe 5.0 support further down the line with Zen 4, we have no indications that Zen 3 will move away from DDR4 and the only recently introduced PCIe 4.0 standard.Īltogether, we should be looking at Zen 3-based processors with boosted clock speeds paired with increased IPC for a decent performance boost (especially in multithreaded workloads) over their Zen 2 counterparts all while staying within or below the power budgets of their predecessors. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X: 8-core, 16 thread, 4.7GHz boost, 36MB cache, 105W TDP.Topping that off, rumors have suggested that AMD will introduce a new level of simultaneous multithreading in Zen 3 chips that would allow a single core to handle four threads (e.g., a 4-core/16-thread CPU or a 16-core/64-thread CPU).Īt the October 8 event, AMD gave us some specs for the first wave of Zen 3 processors: The new process may also come with an 8% to 10% increase in IPC (instructions-per-clock).

The improved 7nm+ process would also offer new chips higher clock speeds while maintaining lower power consumption. That should allow for a potential 20% increase in transistor density while lowering power consumption by 10%. This new design is expected to be the product of a shift to 7nm EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography.

We learned in mid-2019 that AMD had already finished the Zen 3 design, which is expected to be based on a 7nm+ process, offering some slight improvements on the existing 7nm process found in Zen 2 hardware.

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