AMD Ryzen 8000 processors have already impressed the open source community

AMD recently announced the launch of a new family of long-awaited Ryzen 7000 processors for PCs. Recently, however, the company also introduced Ryzen 7000 family processors for laptops - namely the Ryzen 7040 (Phoenix). Although these are very popular among PC enthusiasts, they are still not at the level of competing Intel processors.

Since the competition in the field of processors for personal computers does not rest, AMD is already preparing successors to the Ryzen 7000. This will be a new family of Ryzen 8000 processors, which will be based on the completely renewed processor core Zen 5 (Granite Ridge). Although these won't go on sale until next year, support for them has already been added to the Linux kernel. This is a driver called k10temp, which is intended for both servers and PCs.

AMD will offer the new processors for sale with six to 16 physical processor cores, which will consume between 65 watts and 170 watts of electrical power. These will be available both with a built-in graphics core (up to 16 processor cores) and without it. The latter will be available at a slightly lower price.

AMD Ryzen 8000 processors will also be equipped with 64 megabytes of L3 cache and 16 megabytes of L2 cache. The processor cores are said to be manufactured using 6-nanometer technology, although there are already rumors online that the manufacturing process could be 4-nanometer. The newcomers will go on sale in the course of next year, and we should see models of the Ryzen 7000G family even earlier. These will primarily be aimed at personal computers, and will be available in the second half of the year.