For native Windows 12 support, AMD would already have an advantage over Intel // Source: AMD Gradually, AMD is chipping away at the information that allows us to draw a more precise robot portrait of its future Ryzen 8000 desktop processors. Expected next year, these would already be designed to support the next version of Windows.
No inertia at AMD, and the firm wants to make it known. On the occasion of his last webinar “ Meet the Experts “, the group unveiled an updated roadmap relating to its AM5 platform but also to its future Ryzen 8000 desktop processors, under Zen 5 architecture. The opportunity to learn that AMD plans a launch somewhere in 2024 for its new chips, leaving current Zen 4 processors to take center stage in the meantime.
The American giant also plans to continue its AM5 platform until 2026, thus ensuring at least four years of longevity. At least, because AMD makes it clear that this information is preliminary. In other words, the persistence of this AM5 platform could be even more important in the end, like AM4 before it.
Ryzen 8000 and Windows 12 hand in hand?
We also learn, this time from a leaker on Twitter that future Zen 5 chips will be equipped with an RDNA 3.5 iGPU. Understand that we would benefit from increased performance on the graphics part, thanks to a new architecture that already includes certain characteristics of the future RDNA 4 graphics architecture. Neowin meanwhile points out that the Zen 5 architecture would be a completely new design, and not just a revision of the Zen 4 architecture. If all this is confirmed, then we should enjoy brand new desktop chips in every way.
But above all, the Ryzen 8000 processors will probably be designed to match the new Windows 12 specifications. Currently codenamed “Next Valley” (or “Hudson Valley” according to other sources), the The next version of Windows is indeed supposed to be deployed in 2024. Its support for AMD’s Ryzen 8000 chips therefore seems unavoidable… and AMD could already have an advantage in this respect over Intel.
RDNA 3.5/gfx11.5 is, as the name implies, an in-between gen with features from both RDNA3 and 4.
It contains the new RDNA4 SALU with support for FP32 instructions and improvements to the geometry engine, but not other RDNA4 features like the new scheduler and improved RT cores.
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) June 5, 2023
As Neowin points out, Windows 12 could indeed make the presence of a Pluto coprocessor mandatory, like the TPM 2.0 required by Windows 11. However, AMD processors are already equipped with it, and have been since the Ryzen 6000 generation. an advantage that Intel is not yet afraid to claim, even if its future Arrow Lake CPUs could get started. These would indeed be the designated rivals of the Ryzen 8000 chips for the launch of Windows 12.
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