Alleged AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Processor Retail Availability Dates Revealed

by Brandon Hill — Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 11:15 AM EDT

AMD's latest assault against Intel's Core family of desktop processor is just around the corner. The company has already revealed that its Zen 3 Vermeer-based Ryzen 5000 desktop processors will be unveiled on October 8^th, but what wasn't stated is what the lag will be between the announcement and actual processor availability.

Well, according to Yuri Bubliy, the man behind the comprehensive (and recently released) ClockTuner app for Zen 2 Ryzen processors, the big launch day will occur on October 20^th. This is a little less than two weeks from the reveal date, and less than a month from today. So, enthusiasts out there that are eager to get their hands on AMD's latest processors won't be waiting long.

ComputerBase has backed up that information by alleging that it has also heard of an October 20^th launch; it also hedges its bets a bit by adding a second possibility of October 27^th.

AMD's next-generation consumer desktop processors are expected to adopt the Ryzen 5000 branding rather than Ryzen 4000 in order to avoid confusion with the existing Zen 2-based APUs that were introduced earlier this year. Likewise, AMD board partners like MSI have already introduced a beta microcode updates that add support for the upcoming processors on their existing X570 and B550 motherboards. Initial beta support for A520 motherboards will come later in October.

However, rumors suggest that there will be a full run of X670, B650 and A620 motherboards launching alongside the Ryzen 5000 processors with full PCIe 4.0 compliance across all chipsets. As for the actual processors, we've already seen evidence of the 12-core/24-thread Ryzen 9 5900X and the 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 7 5800X.

It's alleged that those processors to be joined by a 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 5950X and a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 5600X. All of them will be built on an enhanced 7nm process node, offer up to a 20 percent IPC lift over their Ryzen 3000 Series predecessors, and higher base/boost clocks to counter Intel's 10^th generation Comet Lake-S processors.

Tags: AMD, (nasdaq:amd), zen 3, ryzen 5000

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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