By 2025-2026, the processors AMD’s Ryzen could combine Zen 6 CPU cores and RDNA 5 GPU cores.
While we are talking more and more about the next Ryzen in Zen 5 architecture, AMD is obviously seeing much further than that. Plans for the next generation are already in motion.
Plans still relatively vague for us, poor consumers, to the extent that AMD has not presented any roadmap. The first indiscretions, however, provide some interesting elements.
The impasse on RDNA 4?
Starting this year, AMD should therefore launch its first Ryzen processors in Zen 5 architecture. Known under the code name Granite Ridge, they are expected in the second half of 2024.
At the same time, AMD should launch mobile versions of these processors, codenamed Strix Point. If the former will combine Zen 5 with RDNA 2 graphics solutions, the Strix Point will mix Zen 5 with the more recent RDNA 3 and even RNDA 3.5 iGPUs due to some improvements.
During 2025, developments in these two generations are planned with the arrival of Granite Ridge processors integrating X3D technology for more cache. On the other hand, AMD kept Zen 6 a mystery.
New package with 2.5D interconnect
We therefore know a little more today thanks to the indiscretions of Olrak_29 relayed by Wccftech. The next generation is therefore known by the code name Medusa and it will integrate Zen 6 cores.
Cores that are still mysterious, but which should lead to a clearer evolution than the transition from Zen 4 to Zen 5. The Zen 6 cores are designed for 2 nm engraving in particular. On Medusa, they would not be associated with RDNA 4 for the graphic part, but directly with RDNA 5.
A generational leap which is not necessarily a surprise insofar as AMD has already more or less clearly indicated that RDNA 4 would focus on the mid-range with, therefore, a more ambitious RDNA 5. The Medusa package would also be improved with a 2.5D interconnect.
The goal here is to improve the bandwidth between the different parts of the CPU so that the CCDs (Core Chiplet Dies) and the IOD (I/O Die) communicate more freely, without latency. Of course, we will have plenty of time to talk about all that again: no release before the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026 for Medusa.
Source : Wccftech
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