AMD’s leaked CES 2022 presentation slide details little about their new desktop but it seems that the company is scheduling their next-gen Ryzen CPUs for desktops for the second half of 2022, as well as including their move away from socket AM4 which has been with us since the first Ryzen back in 2017.
The chart actually reveals to things: first is the current CPU refresh for AMD featuring V-cache and their naming nomenclature which will add a (-3D) suffx to the end (e.g. Ryzen 7 5800X3D) which are scheduled for Spring of 2022. V-cache promises up to 19% gaming performance and even 25% in some applications. These CPUs will take up the early part of the year up which will be followed up by AMD’s next-gen CPU built on 5nm.
The slide shows us that in the second half of 2022, AMD will debut their socket AM5 CPU socket alongside the Zen4 CPUs. This means that AMD could pull the trigger anywhere around COMPUTEX 2022 timeframe up to December 2022. If its any indication, Ryzen 5000 was debuted around October 2020, around the same period that NVIDIA likes to debut new card generation as well.
Zen 4 will be built on TSMC’s 5nm fabrication node and will arrive just in-time to contend with Intel’s next-gen hybrid CPU, the 13th-gen Intel Raptor Lake CPUs.
