In the document, AMD emphasizes the high performance that Zen 4 Dragon Range should deliver both in terms of gaming and productivity, featuring “higher than ever” core counts, threads and cache size. The proclamations are in line with some rumors in circulation that Dragon Range could sport up to 16 cores.
AMD's Roadmap for the New Ryzen 7000s
AMD has already anticipated the arrival of Zen 4 Raphael processors in the second half of the year. The new models that will compete with Intel's Raptor Lake, will adopt the LGA AM5 socket on the desktop for the first time, while also in this case we will find support for PCI-E 5.0 and DDR5 memories, together with a 65W TDP.
Raphael CPUs, already in pre-production, are made through TSMC's 5nm node. Due to the exclusive support for DDR5, however, the cost of the platform could increase significantly due to the high selling price that for now characterizes these RAM modules.