16 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020NEWS RYZEN ZEN 3 LAUNCH DATE
enthusiast and workstation version is
reportedly codenamed Genesis Peak. AMD
had denied a report that the company was
essentially planning to milk the current Ryzen
3000 generation for another few months,
pushing the launch date into 2021.
Respected site Wikichips.org (go.
pcworld.com/wkch) says the new Zen 3
architecture will be
based on a 7nm+
process, offer 20
percent more
density, and 10
percent power
reduction
compared to
Zen 2.
AMD has said
that (go.pcworld.
com/am4p) it willcontinue to use its AM 4
processor socket straight
through its next generation
of Zen 3 processors,
fulfilling the pledge it
made to continue the
socket through 2020.
AMD did say in May,
however, that any chipset
before the “500 series”
generation—basically,
everything but the X
and B550—will not be
supported by AMD’s
Zen 3.
Besides confirming the manufacturing
process, AMD has said little more about what
consumers can expect for the Zen 3 / Ryzen
4000 series, or when the first processors
based on the new architecture will actually
ship. It looks like we’ll have some answers in
a few weeks’ time.AMD also confirmed that its “Big Navi” Radeon RX 6000 GPUs will be
released on October 28.