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AMD offers more details of its Ryzen 7000 and Mendocino CPUs at Computex 2022

amd has gone to Computex 2022which is being held in Taipei, to offer more details of its upcoming chip and architecture developments. Lisa Su, CEO and President of the companyhas been in charge of kicking off the event with a presentation in which several AMD managers have revealed their secrets.

The Ryzen 7000 processors, along with the AM5 socket, have been the main protagonists of the presentation. The chips, equipped with the new Zen 4 architecture, are expected to bring a significant increase in performance to the equipment that integrates it when they are available: in the fall of 2022. In addition, several AMD executives have announced the new family of Ryzen Mobile processors , designed for mobile teams: Mendocino. Along with these developments, the company has announced AMD’s intelligent storage technology, SmartAccess Storage, and has offered more details about its new AM5 platform.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Processors

The processors of the future family Ryzen 7000 They are based on the Zen 4 architecture, 5 nanometers. They will double the amount of L2 cache per core, feature higher speeds, and are expected to deliver a 15% improvement in single-threaded performance over the previous generation.

In addition to the new Zen 4 compute dies, the Ryzen 7000 lineup features a new 6-nanometer I/O die. It includes an AMD RDNA 2-based graphics engine, a new low-power architecture adopted from AMD Ryzen mobile processors, and support for DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0 memory technologies, and support for up to 4 displays.

Socket AM5 Platform

the new platform AMD Socket M5 It features a 1718-pin LGA design with support for TDP processors up to 170W and dual-channel DDR5 memory. Also for the new power infrastructure SVI3. Compatible with Ryzen 7000 processors, it has up to 234 PCIe 5.0 slots. The AM5 range has three types of motherboards. The first is the X670 Extremewhich features PCIe 5.0 support for two graphics slots and one storage slot.

The second is the X670, with PCIe 5.0 support for a storage slot with optional graphics support. And the third is B650, designed for performance-conscious users, with support for PCIe 5.0 storage. Among the manufacturers that will launch motherboard models that will have AM5 at any of its levels are, for the moment, Asrock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte and MSI.

Mendocino processors and SmartAccess storage

The new ones processors for mobile devices Mendocinofrom AMD, will be priced between $399 and $699 and will feature Zen 2 cores and graphics based on RDNA 2 architecture. They are designed to optimize the life and performance of the equipment that mounts it, and The first teams that integrate them are expected to arrive during the last quarter of this year 2022.

As for storage AMD SmartAccess, features Microsoft DirectStorage support, and uses AMD Smart Access Memory technology, among others, to reduce game load times and speed up texture streaming. For now there is not much more information about the system, and according to the company they will offer more in the coming months.

According to Lisa Su, “At Computex 2022 we highlighted the growing adoption of AMD in business, gaming and ultra-slim laptops from leading PC vendors based on the leading performance and battery life of our Ryzen 6000 family mobile processors. AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop Family We will bring even more leadership to the desktop market with our next-generation 5-nanometer Zen4 architecture, delivering an unparalleled high-performance computing experience for gamers and creators«.

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