In an interview with Overclockers UK, AMD VP David McAfee confirmed that socket AM5 will be supported until 2025 and beyond. The wording is a bit tricky, because McAfee was answering a tricky question. In addition, the latter was not exactly the happiest, as AMD already confirmed in the past in black on white (or white on black) that socket AM5 will be supported at least until the year 2026:
The mere assertion that socket will be supported at the same time, it is not a definite confirmation whether (that) Zen 6 will be compatible with the AM5 socket. Socket AM4 is still supported and it also does not mean that it is compatible with new architectures.
However, the media attention paid to the topic activated the usual sources of behind-the-scenes information (RedGamingTech, MLID) and they subsequently confirmed that after initial hesitation it indeed looks like Zen 6 will be compatible with AM5.
Let us recall that Zen 6 is an architecture that will yield a lower IPC increase than Zen 5, but it will be created on a 3nm process, from which higher energy efficiency can be expected, and an increase in the number of cores is also expected. How big remains a question. It cannot be ruled out that with regard to remaining on the AM5 socket (i.e. DDR5 memory), the increase may not be extreme. It will be possible to increase the data throughput only within the memory clock frequencies and cache adjustments. It is also a question whether the speculated change in the chiplet architecture (layering) will be confirmed, as it cannot be ruled out that some changes were linked to the switch to the AM6 socket. But we will probably see that later, with a generation Zen 7 (say in 2027-2028). Assuming that AMD manages to release Zen 5 in the spring of 2024, may Zen 6 arrive in late 2025 or early 2026 a Zen 7 so about 18+ months after that.
2024-01-01 23:04:40
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