AMD announces Ryzen 7000 for desktop and Mendocino Zen 2 laptop chips
With the launch of their new flagship chip, AMD is also launching Socket AM5 motherboards.
By Rizwan Choudhury May 23, 2022
In the silicon industry, AMD has finally made an announcement about its next significant step. As part of its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPU announcements at Computex 2022, AMD unveiled the Zen 4 architecture and a new type of motherboard for the first time in five years. There are certain AMD AM4 boards that can support the newest Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs, but the future AMD Ryzen 7000 requires an AM5 motherboard.
It was reported earlier that AMD had claimed that its Ryzen 7000 processors were the first to use a 5nm manufacturing process and that the AM5 motherboard platform will come pre-equipped to support DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.
AMD claims Ryzen 7000 chips will be the first desktop CPUs from the company to be able to turbo past 5GHz. At Computex, AMD showed off a 5.5GHz clock speed while playing Ghostwire: Tokyo, matching Intel's 5.5GHz turbo clock speed. Both Intel and AMD have laptop CPUs that can be turbo-clocked to 5GHz, but that doesn't necessarily indicate that they're any faster than a lower-clocked desktop processor.
It's possible that the new processors would need more power, as the AM5 motherboards can now deliver 170W of power to the chips, up from 142W earlier.
With the launch of their new flagship chip, AMD is also launching Socket AM5 motherboards. A 1718-pin LGA socket is on the way, but AM4 coolers can be used with it. If you've already spent a lot of money on your cooling system, that's a big deal.
There are up to 24 PCIe 5.0 channels split between storage and graphics; up to 14 USB SuperSpeed ports running at 20 Gbps, and up to 4 HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2 interfaces.
Offered in three variants the B650 is for general systems; the X650 for enthusiasts who desire PCIe 5.0 for storage and graphics; the X650 Extreme for the most demanding.
In the fourth quarter, AMD is also offering a bone to mainstream laptops with its impending 6nm "Mendocino" CPUs, while Ryzen 7000 will be AMD's primary emphasis for the remainder of the year. They'll have four 6nm Zen 2 cores with RDNA 2 graphics, making them perfect for systems costing between $399 and $699.
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