Monday, August 15th 2022
AMD Pushes Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" Availability Date to Clash with Intel "Raptor Lake" Announcement Date
AMD has reportedly pushed market-availability date of its next-generation Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" desktop processors from September 15 to September 27, 2022. This would clash with the rumored product-announcement date of the Intel 13th Generation Core "Raptor Lake" processor series. If true, this is possibly a move designed to prevent Intel from sharing performance numbers of Ryzen 7000-series processors in the product-announcement presentation of "Raptor Lake," as Intel can only compare the chips it is announcing with competing AMD products that are available in the market at the time.
A September 27 market availability could still mean a late-August product announcement along the sidelines of Gamescom, with product reviews in the following weeks. It's just that the market availability date is now pushed to late-September. Intel's launch cycle for "Raptor Lake" could see a late-September announcement, but it remains to be seen if product availability is immediate, or timed weeks later. The 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processor is built on the same LGA1700 package as current "Alder Lake," and compatible with existing Intel 600-series motherboards with a UEFI firmware update; although will be launched alongside new Intel 700-series chipset motherboards. AMD's Ryzen 7000-series product launch will be timed with those of compatible Socket AM5 motherboards based on the AMD 600-series chipset, and a new line of DDR5 memory modules featuring the AMD EXPO technology.
Sources:
MyDrivers, HXL (Twitter), Hassan Mujtaba (Twitter), VideoCardz
A September 27 market availability could still mean a late-August product announcement along the sidelines of Gamescom, with product reviews in the following weeks. It's just that the market availability date is now pushed to late-September. Intel's launch cycle for "Raptor Lake" could see a late-September announcement, but it remains to be seen if product availability is immediate, or timed weeks later. The 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processor is built on the same LGA1700 package as current "Alder Lake," and compatible with existing Intel 600-series motherboards with a UEFI firmware update; although will be launched alongside new Intel 700-series chipset motherboards. AMD's Ryzen 7000-series product launch will be timed with those of compatible Socket AM5 motherboards based on the AMD 600-series chipset, and a new line of DDR5 memory modules featuring the AMD EXPO technology.
55 Comments on AMD Pushes Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" Availability Date to Clash with Intel "Raptor Lake" Announcement Date
You can't just put 2 rumored dates in your head and say AMD pushed it.
This is why all the rumors I'm hearing I'm not gonna take too seriously, it's when the real, concrete substance comes along you can make a determination about it and that's only going to be after release.
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Compared to comparing RL to Z4 and even if Intel wins it will not be in everything and will likely be single digit percentages in most cases.
I mean think about what would look worse for AMD:
Headline 1: Intel Raptor Lake is 50% faster than AMD Zen3.
Headline 2: Intel Raptor Lake is 10% faster than AMD Zen4.
At the same time AMD can say that yes Intel is slightly faster than us because they have pushed power consumption to 11 and have slight core count advantage.
I mean the second option makes AMD look much better in my opinion if their latest and greatest is only slightly slower but much more efficient and they have X3D model(s) coming that further improve gaming performance.
In fact I think that's the most logical thing so far of all these changes
I think they will be comparable, maybe one architecture will be faster in ST and the other in MT.
If this rumour is true I think they just want to spoil Intel's day.
Some even check different sources and based on their preferences they choose the one they like the most and a source such as the manufacturer himself is considered by many to be the most reliable.
Should I mention intel's preorder before the third party reviews?
You see this a lot with people that buy a product and then have no idea about it later (Look at the laptop owners in the throttlestop forum - shocked their CPU is locked to 15W and still at 90C)You should wait and see, competition looks good this year.
Although what do you mean by platform stability?
If you mean the issues with like Zen 1 and RAM clocks, that was resolved long ago
I'm really interested in the 7700X, see how it compares to 2700X, 5800X and if it does offer headroom (BCLK Oc'ing) for higher boost clocks.
15/09/22 "on sale"
Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the best gaming processor in the market bar none. We are proud of what V-Cache technology is doing for us and we are gonna feature this in Ryzen 7000 series later this year and in the future generation.
AMD's Senior Vice President and General Manager for Client, Saeid Moshkelani
02:47:30
My understanding is that Zen4 V-Cache is not set in stone for 2022 and will come in 2022 depending on the reaction the market will have for Zen4 based on performance & pricing level (in relation with Raptor Lake, not at launch...)
One of my boards could do it, but only by disabling boost... which defeated the purpose
WHO THE F MESSES UP WITH USB IN 2020? I mean, REALLY? WTF? Did they put monkeys in the developing team? Maybe kids just out the college "Here we will give you something simple and trivial for the last 20 years. USB implementation. Child's play. You can't mess it up. no way.".
Then I build x570 with R5 3600 for my nephew and every cold boot system cannot POST with RAM above 3200mhz (dual ranks for quad ranks same problem), platform stability is just not ideal. I'm sure AM5 will have plenty of bugs to be iron out.
I also tried to install esxi on a 12th gen platform and nope it runs like trash.
Sample size of one doesn't mean anything.
but Yes, new platform always introduces new bugs.