AMD's Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs Set for 2H 2024 Launch
Granite Ridge for desktops, Strix Point for laptops, and Turin CPUs for servers to feature the new architecture.
- AMD's next-gen Zen 5 architecture CPUs are set to launch in the second half of 2024, including Granite Ridge for desktops, Strix Point for laptops, and Turin CPUs for EPYC servers.
- Strix Point, the follow-up to Ryzen 8040 'Hawk Point' APUs, will utilize the Zen 5 core architecture and tuned GPU architecture known as RDNA 3.5, delivering a 3x improvement in AI NPU performance with the upgraded Ryzen AI 'XDNA 2' engine.
- Granite Ridge CPUs will replace the Zen 4-based Raphael chips and offer a major performance improvement on existing and newer AM5 platforms.
- Turin CPUs, the follow-up to Genoa, will be introduced as a drop-in replacement to 4th Gen EPYC platforms, carrying a higher number of cores and include radical memory expansion capabilities.
- AMD plans to introduce even more products based on its Zen 5 'Nirvana' and Zen 5C 'Prometheus' cores in 2025.