AMD Ryzen 8000 processors have already impressed the open source community

AMD announced a while ago the start of sales of the new family of highly anticipated Ryzen 7000 processors for personal computers. Recently, the company also introduced processors of the Ryzen 7000 family for portable computers - these are the Ryzen 7040 (Phoenix). These are very popular among fans of personal computers, but they are still not at the level of competing Intel processors.

Since the competition in the field of processors for personal computers does not stop, AMD is still preparing the successors to the Ryzen 7000. This will be the new family of Ryzen 8000 processors, which will be based on the completely renewed processor core Zen 5 (Granite Ridge). Although these won't go on sale until next year, support for them has already been added to the Linux kernel. This is a driver called k10temp, which is intended for both servers and personal computers.

AMD will offer new processors for sale with six to 16 physical processor cores, which will consume between 65 watts and 170 watts of electrical power. These will be available both with a built-in graphics core (up to 16 processor cores) and without it. The latter will be available at a slightly lower price.

AMD Ryzen 8000 processors will be equipped with 64 megabytes of L3 cache and 16 megabytes of L2 cache. The processor cores are said to be manufactured using 6-nanometer technology, although there are still rumors online that the manufacturing process could be 4-nanometer. The newcomers will go on sale in the course of next year, and even earlier we should see models of the Ryzen 7000G family. These will primarily be intended for personal computers, and will be available in the second half of the year.