Zen 3 and radeon 'rdna 2' at 7nm + confirm their launch in 2020

AMD has updated its next-generation roadmaps for CPUs and GPUs, which confirm that Zen 3 and RDNA 2 will reach customers in 2020. The new products would use TSMC's most advanced 7nm + process node, offering a higher performance and much better efficiency than existing products.

AMD updates its Ryzen 4000 and RDNA 2 roadmap

Although AMD is not yet done with its 7nm Zen 2 or RDNA (1) GPUs, its work plan confirms that we will test the new designs in 2020. AMD's Zen 2 chip architecture would be replaced by the Zen 3 core, while that the first generation RDNA architecture would be replaced by the RDNA 2 (second generation) architecture.

The design of the Zen 3 core at 7nm + has been completed and we can see that production will start sometime in the first half of 2020. While Zen 2 was the first processor architecture to be based on the 7nm node, Zen 3 would be based on a 7nm + node, allowing 20% ​​more transistors than Zen 2's 7nm process.

One of the flagship products of Zen 3's core architecture would be the 3rd Generation EPYC line known as Milan. The EPYC Milan series of processors would be deployed on the Perlmutter Exascale supercomputer, designed by CRAY.

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The new Radeon 'RDNA 2 would launch in late 2020

AMD has also revealed that the RDNA 2 GPU architecture is currently in the design phase and that its launch is scheduled for 2020. Since the design of the Zen 3 has been completed and the RDNA 2 is still in the design phase, we can say that Ryzen 4000 will be released before the new next-generation Navi graphics cards. We can see a possible CPU release in mid-2020 and the arrival of GPUs later that year.

We don't know much about the RDNA 2 other than the rumors, but AMD has officially talked about Ray Tracing, which will be hardware accelerated in this architecture.

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