AMD reconfirms that Zen 3 Ryzen processors are releasing in 2020

A lot of recent rumours have suggested that AMD had delayed its upcoming Zen 3 processors, moving their launch from 2020 to early 2021. This delay was allegedly the reason behind AMD’s recent launch of AMD Ryzen 3000XT series processors, an injection of new life into the Ryzen 3000 series to tide it over until the release of the Ryzen 4th generation processors.

AMD has heard these rumours and has reconfirmed that they plan to release Zen 3 based Ryzen processors this year, backing up the comments of their CEO and the roadmap they outlined during their latest investor presentation (see the slide below). 

New Ryzen processors will be released before the end of 2020, but at this time it is unknown exactly when these processors will be released. Given the recent launch of the Ryzen 3000XT series, our guess is that Zen 3 processors will release between early October and early December.     

Zen 3 is due to deliver AMD fans further enhancements to the single-threaded and multi-threaded performance of the company’s Ryzen series processors, either by boosting clock speeds or the performance levels the architecture delivers per clock cycle. Major cache changes are also expected, which could significantly increase the gaming performance of AMD’s next-generation chips, a factor which will be hugely beneficial for AMD within the consumer PC market.