Discussion Speculation: Zen 4 (EPYC 4 "Genoa", Ryzen 7000, etc.)

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Vattila

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Except for the details about the improvements in the microarchitecture, we now know pretty well what to expect with Zen 3.

The leaked presentation by AMD Senior Manager Martin Hilgeman shows that EPYC 3 "Milan" will, as promised and expected, reuse the current platform (SP3), and the system architecture and packaging looks to be the same, with the same 9-die chiplet design and the same maximum core and thread-count (no SMT-4, contrary to rumour). The biggest change revealed so far is the enlargement of the compute complex from 4 cores to 8 cores, all sharing a larger L3 cache ("32+ MB", likely to double to 64 MB, I think).

Hilgeman's slides did also show that EPYC 4 "Genoa" is in the definition phase (or was at the time of the presentation in September, at least), and will come with a new platform (SP5), with new memory support (likely DDR5).

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What else do you think we will see with Zen 4? PCI-Express 5 support? Increased core-count? 4-way SMT? New packaging (interposer, 2.5D, 3D)? Integrated memory on package (HBM)?

Vote in the poll and share your thoughts! :)
 
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Timmah!

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A while back in the thread, @Timmah! and I discussed the labelling design for the Ryzen processors (see post #7386).
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Did AMD listen?

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In the latest design, seen in 7950X3D, note that they have made the font for "RYZEN" taller (also, the stroke width is reduced and corrected, for a lighter look and a more balanced "Y" in particular, which looked somewhat puny and out-of-place before). For the full product name, they have condensed the font and made the word spacing wider. For the product details, they now use a nicer condensed font. They have dropped "DIFFUSED IN TAIWAN" altogether, for less clutter. And the whole thing is nicer aligned.

We did it, dude! If they listen now, i am starting 24C Zen4 thread! :-D
 

JustViewing

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Potentially. One would have to run code profiles against it to know for sure for a given workload.
You'd need to take the average op-cache miss-rate into account in order to make that assumption. Almost everything can become a bottleneck on a CPU with the right (or wrong) workload.

What I was trying to say was, 4 wide decode will not be a bottle neck as Zen4 has large(6.75 K Ops) 9 issue OP-cache.

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biostud

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Launch day of 3D cache models to be Valentines day:
 

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In2Photos

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Launch day of 3D cache models to be Valentines day:
Looks like I know what I'll be getting for my birthday later in the month!
 
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Hitman928

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The AMD non K has been delay at retail!😱

All AMD CPUs are non-K :p

If you mean non-X, then I think either you have a bad source or are just trying to troll. . .



 

biostud

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Launch day of 3D cache models to be Valentines day:
Meh

AMD on 7000 X3D Launch date leak: "As you know, today http://AMD.com briefly published a launch date for the Ryzen7000X3D Desktop CPUs, however, that date is incorrect."

 

Det0x

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For general purposes - usage! Might buy the 7900? Faster startup!

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Will, maybe 7600?
I need to update my runs with a Zen4 score, but looking back at my Zen3 numbers i cant really find those benchmarks on the chart from THG.
Are "Application startup" = "APPS Score" on the 3dmark result page ?
And "Microsoft Edge" = "Web Score" ?
 

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