Powerful new AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series desktop processors with Zen 4 and AMD Socket AM5 Platform to deliver incredible leap in performance and connectivity

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, at COMPUTEX 2022, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) show­ca­sed its latest inno­va­tions in com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy to advan­ce the high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting expe­ri­ence. AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su pro­vi­ded a look at the upco­ming Ryzen™ 7000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors with the new “Zen 4” archi­tec­tu­re, which are set to deli­ver a signi­fi­cant increase in per­for­mance upon their launch in the fall of 2022. Addi­tio­nal­ly, Dr. Su high­ligh­ted the strong growth and momen­tum for AMD in the mobi­le mar­ket as 70 of the more than 200 expec­ted ultrath­in, gam­ing and com­mer­cial note­book designs powered by Ryzen 6000 Series pro­ces­sors have been laun­ched or announ­ced to-date. In addi­ti­on, other AMD exe­cu­ti­ves announ­ced the newest addi­ti­on to the Ryzen Mobi­le lin­e­up, “Men­do­ci­no;” the newest AMD smart tech­no­lo­gy, Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage; and more details of the new AM5 plat­form, inclu­ding sup­port from lea­ding mother­board manufacturers.

“At Com­putex 2022 we high­ligh­ted gro­wing adop­ti­on of AMD in ultrath­in, gam­ing and com­mer­cial note­books from the lea­ding PC pro­vi­ders based on the lea­der­ship per­for­mance and bat­tery life of our Ryzen 6000 series mobi­le pro­ces­sors,” said Dr. Su. “With our upco­ming AMD Ryzen 7000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors, we will bring even more lea­der­ship to the desk­top mar­ket with our next-gene­ra­ti­on 5nm ‘Zen 4’ archi­tec­tu­re and pro­vi­de an unpar­al­le­led, high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting expe­ri­ence for gamers and creators.”

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Desk­top Processors
Con­ti­nuing to expand on the inno­va­ti­on and lea­der­ship per­for­mance of the Ryzen 5000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors, the new Ryzen 7000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors are based on the extre­me­ly effi­ci­ent 5nm “Zen 4” archi­tec­tu­re. The new pro­ces­sors will dou­ble the amount of L2 cache per core, fea­ture hig­her clock speeds, and are pro­jec­ted to pro­vi­de grea­ter than 15% uplift in sin­gle-thread per­for­mance ver­sus the pri­or gene­ra­ti­on, for an unmat­ched desk­top PC expe­ri­ence.¹ During the key­note, a pre-pro­duc­tion Ryzen 7000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sor was demons­tra­ted run­ning at 5.5 GHz clock speed throug­hout AAA game play. The same pro­ces­sor was also demons­tra­ted per­forming more than 30% fas­ter than an Intel Core i9 12900K in a Blen­der mul­ti-threa­ded ren­de­ring workload.²

In addi­ti­on to new “Zen 4” com­pu­te dies, the Ryzen 7000 series fea­tures an all-new 6nm I/O die. The new I/O die includes AMD RDNA™ 2‑based gra­phics engi­ne, a new low-power archi­tec­tu­re adopted from AMD Ryzen mobi­le pro­ces­sors, sup­port for the latest memo­ry and con­nec­ti­vi­ty tech­no­lo­gies like DDR5 and PCI Express® 5.0, and sup­port for up to 4 displays.

AMD Socket AM5 Platform
The new AMD Socket AM5 plat­form pro­vi­des advan­ced con­nec­ti­vi­ty for our most deman­ding enthu­si­asts. This new socket fea­tures a 1718-pin LGA design with sup­port for up to 170W TDP pro­ces­sors, dual-chan­nel DDR5 memo­ry, and new SVI3 power infra­struc­tu­re for lea­ding all-core per­for­mance with our Ryzen 7000 Series pro­ces­sors. AMD Socket AM5 fea­tures the most PCIe 5.0 lanes in the indus­try with up to 24 lanes, making it our fas­test, lar­gest, and most expan­si­ve desk­top plat­form with sup­port for the next-gene­ra­ti­on and bey­ond class of sto­rage and gra­phics cards.

The AM5 fami­ly fea­tures three levels of motherboards:

• X670 Extre­me: Brin­ging the most con­nec­ti­vi­ty and extre­me over­clo­cking capa­bi­li­ties with PCIe 5.0 sup­port for two gra­phics slots and one sto­rage slot
• X670: Sup­port­ing enthu­si­ast over­clo­cking with PCIe 5.0 sup­port on one sto­rage slot with gra­phics sup­port optional
• B650: Desi­gned for per­for­mance users with PCIe 5.0 sto­rage support

Mother­board models span­ning all three chip­sets are expec­ted from part­ners inclu­ding Asrock, Asus, Bio­star, Giga­byte, and MSI, and PCIe 5.0 sto­rage solu­ti­ons will be available from a multi­tu­de of part­ners inclu­ding Cru­cial, Micron, and Phison.

Expan­ding the AMD Ryzen Mobi­le Portfolio
With an incre­di­ble com­bi­na­ti­on of per­for­mance and value, the new “Men­do­ci­no” pro­ces­sors will offer gre­at ever­y­day per­for­mance and are expec­ted to be pri­ced from US $399-$699. Fea­turing “Zen 2” cores and RDNA 2 archi­tec­tu­re-based gra­phics, the pro­ces­sors are desi­gned to deli­ver the best bat­tery life and per­for­mance in the pri­ce band so users can get the most out of their lap­top at an attrac­ti­ve price.

The first sys­tems fea­turing the new “Men­do­ci­no” pro­ces­sors will be available from OEM part­ners in Q4 2022.

AMD Advan­ta­ge™ Sys­tems and AMD Smart­Ac­cess Storage
AMD Advan­ta­ge lap­tops are desi­gned to deli­ver gre­at gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces, offe­ring sta­te-of-the-art per­for­mance, beau­tiful high-refresh rate dis­plays, gre­at bat­tery life and more. AMD Advan­ta­ge sys­tems fea­ture AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies, a coll­ec­tion of advan­ced capa­bi­li­ties that enable AMD CPUs and GPUs to work cohe­si­ve­ly to help eli­mi­na­te sys­tem bot­t­len­ecks and deli­ver maxi­mum per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy. AMD today unvei­led the latest addi­ti­on to the smart tech­no­lo­gy fami­ly, AMD Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage³, which sup­ports Micro­soft Direct­S­to­rage and uti­li­zes AMD Smart Access Memo­ry™ tech­no­lo­gy and other AMD tech­no­lo­gies to help redu­ce game load times and acce­le­ra­te tex­tu­re strea­ming. More infor­ma­ti­on about AMD Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage will be pro­vi­ded in the coming months.

New AMD Advan­ta­ge sys­tems are available from a num­ber of OEMs, inclu­ding sys­tems from Ali­en­wa­re, Asus, Leno­vo, and HP, and now also include sys­tem inte­gra­tor designs from Meta­mech­book and Ori­gin PC.

Cor­sair is also laun­ching their first-ever lap­top desi­gned for gamers and strea­mers, exclu­si­ve­ly with AMD Advan­ta­ge, inclu­ding an inte­gra­ted 10-key strea­ming com­mand cen­ter powered by Elgato’s popu­lar Stream Deck soft­ware, and a 1080p high-fide­li­ty strea­ming gra­de webcam.

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About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Lin­ke­dIn and Twit­ter pages

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This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts inclu­ding the AMD Ryzen^TM 7000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors, “Men­do­ci­no” pro­ces­sors and AMD Advan­ta­ge™ Sys­tems, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als, sub­stra­tes or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; abili­ty to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with expec­ted fea­tures and per­for­mance levels; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty inci­dents inclu­ding IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness, and abili­ty of AMD to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses, such as Xilinx;  impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes, the gua­ran­tees of Xilinx’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments or gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow to make all of its plan­ned R&D or stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

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¹ Test­ing as of May 5, 2022, by AMD Per­for­mance Labs. Sin­gle-thread per­for­mance eva­lua­ted with Cine­bench R23 1T. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Sys­tem: ASUS ROG Cross­hair VIII Hero X570, 2x8 DDR4-3600C16. AMD Ryzen 7000 Series: AMD Refe­rence X670 Mother­board, 16-core Ryzen 7000 Series pre-pro­duc­tion pro­ces­sor sam­ple, 2x16GB DDR5-6000CL30. All sys­tems con­fi­gu­red with Rade­on™ RX 6950XT GPU (dri­ver: 22.10 Prime), Win­dows 11 Build 22000.593, Sam­sung 980 Pro 1TB SSD, Ase­tek 280MM liquid coo­ler. Results may vary when final pro­ducts are released in market.
² Test­ing as of May 5, 2022 by AMD Per­for­mance Labs. Ren­der time mea­su­red in seconds to com­ple­te AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Series pro­ces­sor wall­pa­per ren­der. AMD time: 204 seconds, Intel time: 297 seconds. Core i9-12900K Sys­tem: ASUS ROG Maxi­mus Z690 Hero, 2x16 DDR5-6400CL32. AMD Ryzen 7000 Series: AMD Refe­rence X670 Mother­board, 2x16GB DDR5-6400CL32. All sys­tems con­fi­gu­red with Rade­on™ RX 6950XT (dri­ver: 22.10 Prime), Win­dows® 11 Build 22000.593, Sam­sung 980 Pro 1TB, Ase­tek 280MM liquid coo­ler. Results may vary.
³ Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage tech­no­lo­gy requi­res Direct­S­to­rage enab­led games, OEM ena­blem­ent with Smart­Ac­cess Memo­ry on sel­ect lap­tops, with an AMD Rade­on RX 6000 Series gra­phics card and Ryzen 6000 Series mobi­le pro­ces­sor. GD-210.