Here's everything you need to know about AMD's Ryzen 7000 Series CPU

The name of the game with AMD now is speed. What exactly I'm talking about, you ask? AMD's newly revealed next-generation Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs with up to 5GHz clock speed. Without wasting any more text in this intro, here's everything you need to know about AMD's newest gen processor.

For the first time in over five years, the next Ryzen CPU based on the Zen 4 architecture will require an entirely new motherboard to accommodate the processor. Current AM4 motherboards are still compatible with Ryzen 5000-series desktop CPUs. But the upcoming Ryzen 7000 requires an AM5 motherboard.

The number five seems to be the lucky number for AMD. The Ryzen 7000 CPU is based on a 5nm process; the AM5 motherboard design will support DDR5 and PCIe 5.0. Do you see where going with this? Also, adding the list of fives, the Ryzen 7000 chips will have a 5.5 GHz clock speed mentioned earlier in the post. During the demonstration at Computex, AMD played the game Ghostwire: Tokyo, and amazingly the processor was able to match Intel's Core i9-12900KS 5.5 GHz turbo speed.

The internal components inside the Ryzen 7000 are pretty interesting; there are still three chiplets that include two 5nm Zen 4 modules and a new 6nm I/O die that now has integrated RDNA 2 graphics DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 controllers and built-in power management. According to AMD marketing director Robert Hallock, every single Ryzen 7000 processor will have the same amount of integrated graphics; you'll have to add a discrete graphics card for gaming and work.

You also should expect one speedy PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage slot, which will be standard on every AM5 motherboard, including the new X670 Extreme, X670, and the affordable B650 (currently, there is no listed price available). In addition, AM5 offers 24 lanes of PCIe 5.0 bandwidth, and motherboards will have up to 14 USB 3. x ports and support 20Gbps and USB-C. You will also get up to four display outputs on the motherboard.

It's worth noting that the Ryzen 7000 series will not support DDR4 RAM. Instead, you can only use the newer DDR5 RAM on motherboards that supports the new processor. In regards to pricing, AMD has not released that information.

The Ryzen 7000 series is expected to take place in the Fall.