Amd has confirmed that it plans to launch three types of ryzen 7000 series products based on Zen 4 in the near future, including Raphael for desktop, dragon range for high-end notebook and Phoenix for lightweight game book In the financial results of the first quarter of 2022, amd provided its latest roadmap, including the adjusted and upgraded roadmap plan for 2022-2023.
It seems that AMD's Zen 4 core architecture will play an important role in providing power for at least three customer platforms, including Raphael for fever desktop computers, dragon range for high-end game laptops, and Phoenix for lightweight laptops.
Raphael
Raphael is driven by 5nm Zen 4 process and is mainly based on the latest Am5 platform. It is oriented to the fever desktop market. The platform provides ddr5 and PCIe 5.0 functions, and the TDP is at least 65W. Raphael desktop CPU platform is expected to be launched in the second half of 2022.
Expected features of AMD ryzen'zen 4 'desktop CPU.
● new Zen 4 CPU core (IPC / architecture improvement)
● new TSMC 5 nm process node and 6 nm IOD
● support Am5 platform with lga1718 socket
● support dual channel ddr5 memory
● 28 PCIe channels (dedicated to CPU)
● 65-120w TDPs (upper limit range ~ 170W)
Dragon Range
It seems that the new dragon range APU lineup will target high-end game laptops over 20mm in size. According to AMD, these products will bring the highest core, thread and cache to the mobile game CPU. These products will also include the fastest creators and productivity performance of Mobile PCs ever. The new dragon range series will also meet ddr5 and PCIe 5 standards and have SKUs in the range of more than 55W.
Before dragon range, it was rumored that AMD would launch raphael-h lineup, which would be based on the same desktop chip as Raphael, but with higher cores, threads and cache for high-performance notebooks. It is expected to have up to 16 cores, which will be amd vs Intel The direct response of alder Lake HX component, which adopts 8 + 8 hybrid design and has up to 16 cores.
Phoenix APU
It will leverage Zen 4 and rDNA 3 cores. The new Phoenix APU will support lpddr5 and PCIe 5, and the power of SKU ranges from 35W to 45W. The product line is also expected to be launched in 2023, and is likely to be launched on CES in 2023. Amd also pointed out that notebook components may include memory technologies other than lpddr5 and ddr5.
According to the early specifications, it seems that Phoenix ryzen 7000 APU may still carry up to 8 cores and 16 threads, and the higher number of cores is unique to dragon range chips. However, the graphics core of Phoenix APU will have a higher number of Cu, which is much higher than anything that competitors may provide.