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Zen 4 is a planned microarchitecture being developed by AMD as a successor to Zen 3.

History

Zen 4 on the roadmap.

Zen 4 was first mentioned by Forrest Norrod during AMD's EPYC One Year Anniversary webinar. During the next horizon event which was held on November 6, 2018, AMD stated that Zen 4 was at the design completion phase.

Process Technology

AMD claims that Zen4 is going to be produced on a 5nm node by TSMC.

Codenames

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Architecture

Little is currently known about the architectural improvements that are being done to Zen 4.

Key changes from Zen 3

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• raised core/thread count from 64/128 to at least 96/192 (vastly due to 5nm process allowing more space, therefore more cores).
• improved cache load, write and prefetch from/to register (less latency).
• improved iGPUs for APU variants; navi integrated gpu with up to 3.4 TFLOPs FP32 (clock frequency unknown, at least 2 GHz).
• utilizes new AM5 socket and is expected to support DDR5 and possibly PCIe 5.
• more transistors (depending on AM5 socket as well and not just the CPU it self).

Bibliography

Designers

• Mike Clark(?), chief architect

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See Also

• AMD Zen
• Intel Meteor Lake