The Sunnyvale giant has two “secret” weapons ready to deal with Intel and NVIDIA, the Ryzen 7000X3D and Radeon RX 7000. The presentation of both will take place on different dates, but in the end the important thing is that the two are getting closer, and that they are called to become two first-rate launches that will play a key role in their respective markets.
The Ryzen 7000X3D processors will keep all the keys that we have seen in the Ryzen 7000, which means that they will be designed under the chiplet modelThey will have up to 16 cores and 32 threads and will repeat the values and improvements of the Zen 4 architecture. The fundamental difference between the two will be that the former will have 3D stacked L3 cache, that is, they will follow the design of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
Increasing the amount of L3 cache through 3D stacking has very significant benefits that we already saw with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. On the one hand, improves performance in many gamesand on the other hand when stacking it vertically there is no need to introduce changes at the socket level and space at the silicon level is not a problem.
We know that it is only a matter of time until AMD presents the Ryzen 7000X3D, everything seems to indicate that said presentation will take place during the CES 2023scheduled for early January this year. The models that AMD will launch have not yet been specified, but some rumors assure that the company will not be limited to one version, as it did with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which was the only one of its kind to hit the market.
These new processors will have a configuration of 96MB of L3 cache in its versions with a single CCD (Ryzen 7 7700X3D and Ryzen 5 7600X3D), and 192MB of L3 cache in its versions with two CCD units (Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D). Their working frequencies will be lower than those of the models without 3D cache, but they will perform better in games as we have already said.
Regarding the Radeon RX 7000, AMD will offer streaming next November 3 at 9:00 p.m. (Central European Time) where he will present the new RDNA3 architecture. This new generation will repeat the use of infinite cache to improve bandwidth, and in the end it will have a monolithic core GPU, since all its elements, except for the infinite cache, will be on a single chip.
We expect the Radeon RX 7000 to substantially improve performance in rasterization and also in ray tracing. In this sense, I believe that the externalization of the infinite cache is going to be key, since will leave AMD a very valuable space at the silicon level which you can use to introduce new specialized core blocks. There is less left to get out of doubt, but I have a good hunch with this new generation of AMD.
I remind you that the launch of the Radeon RX 7000 will not take place until the end of Novemberand that it is very likely that they will have to coexist with the Radeon RX 6000 for a while, since there is still quite a lot of accumulated stock.
