So far it has been agreed that the Ryzen 7000 with Gen 4 architecture will appear in the fourth quarter. AMD is said to have pushed the release before September. This would be conceivable, since the tape-out was stated a while back and with an unusually long time.
The Zen 4 is slated to release at the end of the year, but according to information from Twitter user Greymon55, the Ryzen 7000 or codenamed Raphael should debut earlier. It is being said that Rafale will be launched before September. In the meantime why has it been left open. It’s conceivable that AMD wants to fend off competitor Intel, which wants to start the second expansion phase of its hybrid technology in the fourth quarter.
The new AM5 socket, which has 1,718 contacts in the land grid array, also starts with the Ryzen 7000. This goes hand in hand with AMD on DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0 including a new I/O chip in the form of the 600 series with the Vistula. Running CPUs already exist; AMD showed off a processor at CES that clocked Halo Infinity at 5GHz on all cores. Logically, a marketing campaign and no details about the CPU are known so far, which AMD gave a detour.
AMD Zen 4: Tape-out probably happened at the beginning of the year
AMD still won’t offer hybrid technology with the Rafale, while direct competitor Raptor Lake is entering the second hybrid round. Hybrid technology should only come with AMD with the Zen 5 and should also look a bit different than Intel, since you’ll want to use the same cores, but reduce them – meanwhile Intel replaces the cove cores with the Pi and the mont cores. Uses different x86 architectures as e-core.
Rafale processors should generally go up to 120 watts TDP, but models with 170 watts should also allow. At the moment the assumption is that the 170-watt model is a special edition allowing for a bit more leeway. Even a TDP of 120W would be 15W more than the existing AM4 socket with 1,331 connections. While the AM5 package for the Rafale is square at 40×40 millimeters, Intel is said to be rectangular and measures 37.5×45 millimeters for the Elder Lake S.
