Zen 4 and RDNA 3 in progress at AMD!

AMD has just announced that it is already working on the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 . It is committed to continuously improving its products and aims to push their performance per watt even further.

Energy efficiency and performance at the heart of the evolution

AMD has just released the Ryzen 5000 series processors based on the Zen 3 architecture and the Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs based on RDNA 2, and is already working on the design of the next generations. The Ryzen 5000 series processors were released on November 5th. The Radeon RX 6800 series and Radeon RX 6800 XT series graphics cards will be released on November 18th, while the Radeon RX 6900 XT series will go on sale on December 8th, 2020.

Zen 4 processors will be manufactured using a 5-nanometer . The manufacturing process for RDNA 3 remains secret. However, Bergman, AMD's Executive Vice President, claims that the manufacturing process used for RDNA 3 will be superior to that used for the latest generation of Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. Infinity Cache will become increasingly common in future generations. It's worth noting that RDNA 2 achieved a 50% performance-per-watt over the RDNA 1 architecture. The new RDNA 3 architecture will achieve the same, according to an AMD spokesperson in The Street.

Why focus development on energy performance?

Performance per watt is very important to AMD because if power consumption is high enough, gamers will have to invest in power supply and cooling systems, resulting in a significantly higher overall cost. Therefore, AMD is doing everything possible to provide products that don't require excessive power to reduce the overall cost.

This is especially true for laptops, as the available space is increasingly limited. AMD therefore promises solutions that don't require extra cooling systems.

Performance doesn't usually go hand in hand with energy efficiency. In fact, the wider the memory bus and the higher the speed, the higher the power consumption. AMD will meet this challenge by continuing to use Infinity Cache memory, already present in the latest generation of GPUs. Besides the reduced size resulting from the 5-nanometer manufacturing process, improvements will also be made to, among other things, the IPC (Instructions Per Cycle), the cache system, and the socket, which will evolve to AM5. The latter will support DDR5 memory.

The race for performance is on. AMD is giving its competitors no respite. 2021 is already shaping up to be a year of significant technological advancements.