The coming year will be an interesting one for AMD processors as they are introducing several different products for different market segments. In the last few hours, new information has emerged about the plans for AMD's CPUs in 2022 that puts us more in context about what Lisa Su's preparing and what we could see in a few weeks at CES.
It is said that each sheep corresponds to its partner and the idea of AMD is to compete against Intel in all segments with an answer for everything that Intel's throwing. In other words, from the input processors to the servers, those of Lisa Su will have an answer for whatever their eternal rival presents.
What does AMD prepare us in CPU for 2022?
The CPU market is very complex, the reason for this is that there are various segments with differentiated needs that cause a wide variety of products. Although the most interesting will be the Rembrandt APUs for laptops and the launch of the Ryzen and EPYC with Zen 4, there are really other processors to highlight and from which information has been leaked.
AMD Renoir X
The first of the CPUs that AMD has prepared for us for 2022 is the one known internally as Renoir X and it is nothing other than an answer to Intel's Core i3. Being a CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads they have decided to bet again on the Zen 2 architecture, hence its name Renoir X, since it is based on the AMD Ryzen 4000G that it will replace, indeed, it will be designed like these for socket AM4 and will therefore be a desktop CPU. The differences will be in the fact that the Radeon Vega iGPU will be totally inactive.
However, Renoir X will not be a CPU that will be limited to 4 cores, since there will be models that will have an 8-core and 16-thread configuration, but also with the graphics idle. This reminds us a bit of the PS5 chips discarded in the form of 4700S, but with the difference that this time they will not come soldered on the plate and we can buy them in a box to install them on plates with an AM4 socket.
The fact that the architecture is not Zen 3, Cézanne, makes us suppose that it is a way of cleaning the stock of its Ryzen 4000G as an impromptu response to the i3.
AMD Vermeer X
Vermeer is the codename of the AMD Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs made up of chiplets, this isn't a novelty, since we already saw Lisa Su showing this processor a few months ago. It is nothing more than a Ryzen 5000. The Vermeer X will replace its CCD Chiplet based on Zen 3 with one that uses Zen 3D and, therefore, V-Cache with which it gets an additional 15% IPC.
They are the obvious answer to the Intel Core 12 "Unlocked" that Intel has recently launched, with the advantage for AMD users of not having to buy a new motherboard by being compatible with the same AM4 motherboards as the standard Ryzen 5000. Due to their coincidence in time with the Ryzen 6000 APUs, we don't know if they will appear under the Ryzen 6000 trade name in order to differentiate them from current models.
Raphael, AMD's flagship CPU for 2022
After the appetizers we have the main course that is nothing other than the AMD Ryzen with Zen 4 that will appear sometime in the second half of 2022. The new information? Well, at the level of the processor itself, we don't have new data, but we do have the motherboards and the supported I/O interfaces.
And it is that contrary to the rumors that were said a few months ago, AMD will bet on PCI Express 5.0 as standard, something that should not surprise us since we know that there will be graphics cards and NVMe SSDs with that interface already at that time. Although the most surprising thing is that there will be no DDR4 and DDR5 duality of Intel CPUs, but AMD's bet with the X670 and B650 boards will not support DDR4, since the memory controller integrated into the Zen 4 Raphael CPUs will only work with DDR5.
By the release date that these CPUs will have, it is very clear that they will compete against Intel's Raptor Lake.
Link: https://hardzone.es/noticias/procesadores/amd-cpu-2022-renoir-vermeer-x/
