Zen 3
Zen 3 is the successor to Zen 2 and uses TSMC’s 7nm process for the chiplets and GlobalFoundries’s 14 nm process. Zen 3 is a significant incremental improvement over its predecessors, with an IPC increase of 19%, and being capable of reaching higher clock speeds.
About Zen 3 in brief
Zen 3 is the codename for a CPU microarchitecture by AMD, released on November 5, 2020. It is the successor to Zen 2 and uses TSMC’s 7 nm process for the chiplets and GlobalFoundries’s 14 nm process. Zen 3 is a significant incremental improvement over its predecessors, with an IPC increase of 19%, and being capable of reaching higher clock speeds. It also features Smart Access Memory, a technology allowing Zen 3 processors to directly access all of a compatible graphic card’s VRAM, allowing an increased FPS of up to 11% in certain games.
On October 8, 2020, AMD announced four Zen 3-based desktop processors, consisting of one Ryzen 5, one Ryzen 7, and two Ryzen 9. The Epyc server line of chips based on Zen 3 will be named Milan and will be the final generation of chips using the SP3 socket.
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