AMD Reveals their High-end Ryzen 3rd Generation Processor Lineup

AMD is gearing themselves up for a strong 2019, with plans to bring 7nm products to the CPU and GPU markets en masse, with their Ryzen 3rd Generation processors taking the fight to Intel’s high-end offerings. 

Now, AMD has revealed their Ryzen 3rd Generation processor lineup, showing several new product SKUs, ranging from 8-core models to 12-core models, each of which will be compatible with the company’s existing AM4 socket motherboards, assuming they are updated with BIOS files for Ryzen 3rd Generation products.

So what is AMD offering with Ryzen 3rd Gen? For starters AMD is offering more cores, next up there are higher clock speeds, then there’s increased power efficiency, and finally, there is increased per clock performance. AMD plans to lead the industry, which means that they don’t plan to remain behind Intel. With this in mind, we present to you the Ryzen 3000 series of Zen 2 processors. 

There is a lot to unpack here. Zen 2 is a big deal, 7nm is a big deal and together they offer AMD an opportunity to properly take on Intel on the high-end. AMD was not satisfied with 1st generation Ryzen, yes, it shook up the industry, but AMD wanted to do better, push the envelope further and do more for their customers. 

With Zen 2 AMD has doubled their cache size and has delivered a 2x improvement to Floating Point performance, two factors which enable increased performance in games and in workstation workloads. In terms of IPC, AMD’s Zen 2 cores deliver a 15% boost to performance per clock, with Lisu Su claiming that Zen 2 will deliver a performance boost in all applications.  

AMD’s Ryzen 3rd Generation processors will also offer PCIe 4.0 support, a first for the consumer CPU market. This makes Ryzen 3rd Generation an ideal partner for their Radeon Navi series of graphics cards, the first gaming GPU to offer PCIe 4.0 support.