AMD Confirms Ryzen 8000 AM5 Processors With Zen 5 CPU and Navi 3.5 Graphics

AMD Ryzen 8000
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During a Meet the Experts webcast with retail channel vendors, AMD has confirmed some important aspects of the design of its Ryzen 8000 series processors for desktops, specifically workstations and value server. In brief, these AM5 socketed chips are going to mix both the next-generation Zen 5 CPU architecture with an incremental upgrade to the graphics architecture, dubbed Navi 3.5.

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During the webcast, a roadmap for AM5 spanning from 2022 was shared (PDF link). It shows the final throes of the AM4 platform, with the Ryzen 5000 series mixing Zen 3 and Vega graphics. The current Ryzen 7000 desktop processor series mixing Zen 4 CPU cores and Navi 3.0 graphics were sensibly placed under the 2023 banner. Meanwhile, we see AMD confirm for the first time the following: AMD Ryzen 8000 series processors for AM5 will debut in 2024, packing Zen 5 CPU cores and Navi 3.5 graphics.

With the Ryzen 8000 series of chips now firmly on the horizon, those patient enough to wait out another generation for upgrades / new PC builds have something definitive to wait for. Importantly, the slide also confirms that AM5 will soldier on into 2026, and at this rate, we could be seeing two further Ryzen desktop generations before the socket gets usurped by a shiny new socket, which may or may not be called AM6.

Previous next-gen AMD Ryzen desktop roadmaps have suggested that what we now know as the Ryzen 8000 series will be codenamed ‘Granite Ridge’ (or ‘Strix Point’ for laptops). Moreover, these chips will feature up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores across two CCDs. Also nestling on the SoC will be the Navi 3.5 GPU, which we are guessing will be a die shrink of Navi 3 for improved clocks / efficiency – but largely the same features.

An interesting congruent aspect of the newly shared slide is that it claims the current gen Ryzen 7000 series of processors for AM5 use ‘Navi 3.0’ graphics, but in fact those chips seen so far in 2023 use RNDA 2 (Navi 2.x) integrated GPUs. Are we going to get a refresh later in the year, so that this roadmap becomes more accurate? Time will tell.

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  • Sleepy_Hollowed
    hope it’s another banger generation, their current one have basic GPUs, an improvement would be great.
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  • InvalidError
    Still two CCDs for 16C? I imagined that by the time Zen hit 3nm, 8C/32MB CCDs would be so small that AMD would need to aggregate the thing into 16C/64MB.
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  • Elusive Ruse
    Sounds great, especially confirmation that AM5 will extend into 2026.
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  • Elusive Ruse said:
    Sounds great, especially confirmation that AM5 will extend into 2026.

    Amen. That's why I just built with AM5... a few years of future proofing with amazing thermals. My first AMD build since 2001.

    PC is a beast... but if there's anything I'll upgrade in the next 4 years it will be the7950x3D CPU.
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  • JamesJones44
    InvalidError said:
    Still two CCDs for 16C? I imagined that by the time Zen hit 3nm, 8C/32MB CCDs would be so small that AMD would need to aggregate the thing into 16C/64MB.
    Will it be 3nm or TSMC's "4nm" which is just an enhanced 5 nm node? If it's the latter that would likely explain why.
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  • The RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture for the integrated GPU is actually the same RDNA GPU that will be powering the successor to Phoenix APUs codenamed "Strix Point".

    And we are looking at at least four AM5 processor families for the new socket including the existing Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Noice !

    But it appears that AM5 platform will be receiving a new CPU core and graphics upgrade on an annual cadence, so yeah , we should be getting something new to try out each year. :)
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  • Makaveli
    Elusive Ruse said:
    Sounds great, especially confirmation that AM5 will extend into 2026.
    This!!

    I don't plan on jumping onto AM5 until 2024.
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  • Metal Messiah. said:


    But it appears that AM5 platform will be receiving a new CPU core and graphics upgrade on an annual cadence, so yeah , we should be getting something new to try out each year. :)

    Yep... like I said 6 weeks ago... if there's any time to jump ship from Intel... it's right now.
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  • Elusive Ruse
    TravisPNW said:
    Amen. That's why I just built with AM5... a few years of future proofing with amazing thermals. My first AMD build since 2001.

    PC is a beast... but if there's anything I'll upgrade in the next 4 years it will be the7950x3D CPU.
    I'm almost done collecting all parts needed, only CPU and MOBO to go! Probably 7950X paired with a B650 Gigabyte.
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  • Elusive Ruse
    Makaveli said:
    This!!

    I don't plan on jumping onto AM5 until 2024.
    I don't have that luxury, my PC is on its last legs :confused:
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