AMD is planning to release its Ryzen 8000 desktop CPUs, codenamed "Granite Ridge," sometime next year. The next generation Zen 5 core microarchitecture is expected to come with (Navi) RDNA 3.5 iGPU cores, according to the latest Team Red product roadmaps. Today, hardware tipsters Olrak29_ and Kepler_L2 have made claims on social media that the Ryzen 7000 CPU legacy will continue with the next desktop processor lineup. We already know that Granite Ridge will be available as a Socket AM5 package, but today's leak suggests that these next-gen chips will use the same IO die as AMD's current Zen 4 desktop family.
These new rumors suggest that the "reused" Ryzen 7000 IOD (I/O Die) chiplet will provide the familiar allocation of 28 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, memory controllers, USB functions, and RDNA 2 iGPU cores. Wccftech points out that AMD lists the Ryzen 7000 "desktop" CPUs with Navi 3.0 support, even though the Radeon 710M iGPU is based on the RDNA 2 graphics core. The article suggests that "RDNA 3.5 GPU cores on the AM5 platform" could be introduced with the upcoming Ryzen APUs, specifically the 6 nm Rembrandt (6000G) and 4 nm Phoenix (7000G) desktop solutions.
