AMD will soon release the RX 7000 graphics card. However, AMD itself recently announced its latest development. As everyone imagined, AMD declined severely in the consumer market, but continued to make rapid progress in the server market. For the graphics card part, AMD's market share is not high. In the long run, AMD's development focus will still be on the processors that look very good now. Even if the consumer market is sluggish now, AMD's technological development in the processor part will inevitably continue.
According to the roadmap previously released by AMD in August, it is possible to launch a 3D cache version of Ryzen 7000 at the beginning of next year, which is a processor similar to Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It is obvious that AMD's technology in the 3D cache part is relatively mature, so the time interval between the 3D cache version of the previous generation of Ryzen and the launch of this generation of version is not that long. We have said before that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is more like an experimental product of AMD, and now it seems that this experiment is very successful.
It is reported that AMD has made subtle changes and upgrades on the Ryzen 7000 processor, which are mainly to prepare for supporting 3D V-Cache technology in the future. From the perspective of chip design, the CCD used by Ryzen 7000 has a larger and denser array, the spacing has also decreased, and more TSV channels are also provided. This means that the 3D cache chip will have a larger contact area with the CCD, thereby obtaining greater L3 cache bandwidth and supporting higher power.
Simply put, the 3D cache bandwidth on the Ryzen 7000 will be higher and the performance will be stronger. Although the cache capacity may not necessarily increase, of course, the current statement is that a single CCD can support 64MB of 3D cache chips. In other words, the 3D cache chip of Ryzen 7000 will be built with 6nm. Of course, it will definitely continue to cooperate with TSMC. After all, TSMC is better in 3D packaging technology.
Judging from the current rumors, the 3D cache version of Ryzen 7000 may launch three products when it is launched, all of which are aimed at the high-end market. After all, the consumption environment is not good, and the profit of selling high-end will be higher. These three products are Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, respectively, sixteen cores, twelve cores and ten cores. These are all dual CCD products, so they should theoretically be 128MB 3D cache. It is not ruled out that AMD will launch more 3D cache products for single CCD processors in the future, but the capacity is cut by half, but the performance improvement is still obvious.
Intel Currently, although the processor performance of the 13th generation Core is stronger than that of the Ryzen 7000, the gap has not widened, which is somewhat different from what I imagined, and the Ryzen 7000 has some advantages in some projects. After adding 3D cache, it is almost certain that Ryzen 7000 will at least defeat Intel's thirteenth-generation Core in terms of gaming performance.
