TDP of Ryzen 7000 series processor will be raised to 170W
AMD will bring the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and some new Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 4000 series processors to the market in the near future, but these products are not the focus of AMD. Their focus this year is of course the Zen 4 architecture Ryzen 7000 series processors to be launched in the second half of the year. According to the latest news, the TDP of the top model of the Ryzen 7000 series processor will be increased to 170W, which will be much higher than the current 105W.
According to Twitter user @Greymon55, the top 16-core 32-thread model of the Ryzen 7000 will have a TDP of 170W, while the 12-core 24-thread model will have a 105W TDP, and there will also be a 65W Ryzen 9 model, a 120W TDP that was not previously rumored. At present, the TDP of the top Ryzen 9 5950X is still only 105W. This time the TDP has been significantly improved. The biggest benefit of increasing the TDP is naturally that a higher clock can be obtained, but the price is higher temperature. The 170W TDP can be suppressed by at least 240-level water cooling or top air cooling.
In addition to adopting the latest Zen 4 architecture, the Ryzen 7000 series processors, code-named Raphael, will also upgrade the production process to TSMC 5nm, which will bring higher IPC, and the sample demonstrated by AMD at CES can run to a boost clock of 5GHz. It is estimated that this is the reason for raising the TDP to 170W, and the single-core boost clock will only be higher than 5GHz.
In addition, the new processor will use the full AM5 platform, the interface socket will become LGA, and the memory will also be upgraded from DDR4 to DDR5. AMD will also integrate a set of RDNA2 architecture GPU in the processor this time.
