The specs for AMD’s new Ryzen 8000-series chips seem to have leaked, giving us our first take a look at AMD’s “Granite Ridge” chips.

If the most recent rumors are to be trusted, we all know what we will count on to see for the assorted Ryzen 8000 cellular CPU fashions together with core counts starting from six to 16, a TDP from 65W to 170W, and a most L3 cache reminiscence of 64MB. The report from Guru3D additionally revealed the desktop variant, which appears to be outfitted with related specs just like the Zen 5 CCDs (Eldora), Zen 5 CPU cores (Nirvana), six to 16 Zen 5 processor cores, 65W to 170W TDP, as much as 64MB L3 cache, and 16MB L2 cache.

The brand new Zen 5 structure must be an enormous step up from the present Zen 4 — which is the present archiecture behind a few of the greatest processors of the previous yr — offering as much as an 18% efficiency enhance whereas decreasing energy consumption by 34%. The chips are anticipated to make use of TSMC’s 3NE and 3NP nodes, which is able to considerably enhance their efficiency relative to Intel’s rival chips, that are simply now transferring onto 7nm course of nodes.

That effectivity is what’s most spectacular concerning the bounce from N5 to N3 course of know-how. The leaks reveal that TSMC’s N3 course of is projected to supply 10 to 15 p.c larger velocity with the identical energy consumption.

Is the AMD Ryzen 8000 CPU popping out in 2024?

This leak’s revelation that manufacturing most probably began within the later half of 2022 strains up with that launch window since part improvement takes a minimum of a yr. We’ve additionally heard that Zen 5 is because of launch in 2024, so this leak provides additional proof for that timeline.

Again on March 30, there was a press launch about AMD Ryzen-based servers that hinted on the launch of next-gen AMD CPUs. In keeping with mentioned press launch: “Regardless that these new merchandise are entry-level servers, CPU help doesn’t finish right here and the AM5 platform is supported till a minimum of 2025. The subsequent technology of AMD Ryzen desktop processors that can come out later this yr can even be supported on this AM5 platform…”

Nevertheless, a corrective assertion from Gigabyte spokesperson Liam Quinn clarified that the wording was off and that the corporate doesn’t really know when the Ryzen 7000 successor can be launched. 

This might imply a number of issues, together with that we received’t see any chips out till 2025. Or that AMD might as a substitute go for a extra gradual launch, with some AM5-compatible chips popping out in 2025. A Ryzen 9 8900X launching in October 2024 and the Ryzen 9 8900X3D launching in March 2025 would definitely be consistent with the expectations, however we’ll have to attend and see.