AMD Confirms Zen 5 CPUs Now Sampling: Turin “EPYC” & Strix “Ryzen” Launching In 2H 2024, Gaming GPU Revenue Takes Big Hit

01.05.2024 - 06:33 / wccftech.com / Lisa Su / Hassan Mujtaba

AMD has revealed that it's now sampling its next-generation Zen 5 CPUs to partners including Turin "EPYC" & Strix "Ryzen" processors.

AMD's Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs For EPYC "Turin" & Ryzen "Strix" Are Now Sampling, MI300 Refreshes Hinted Again

AMD posted its Q1 2024 earnings a couple of hours ago, highlighting strong sales in the data center segment. During the earnings call, AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, gave a brief report of where the company is currently and where it is headed. This year will be all about Zen 5 as it enters both the client & data center segments.

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AMD seems to be betting it all on Data centers in 2024 by accelerating their EPYC CPU and Instinct GPU roadmaps. On the CPU side, the AMD Zen 5 core architecture will play a big role which will be powering two major product families, the EPYC "Turin" and Ryzen "Strix". These two chips are said to be sampling to partners now and launch is expected sometime in the second half of this year.

Starting with the AMD EPYC Turin CPUs first, the family will be the first EPYC lineup to feature the brand new Zen 5 cores. These CPUs are being widely sampled by customers and partners and it is reported that the silicon looks great. Lisa Su mentions that the EPYC Turin CPUs provide significant gains in performance and efficiency which will help drive their server market share even further.

AMD's partners are already developing more than 30% of platforms powered by the 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" CPUs and these will be introduced later this year. In a recent roadmap, AMD confirmed that EPYC Turin CPUs will offer drop-in upgradability with existing 4th Gen EPYC servers on the SP5 & SP6 platforms. We are expecting to see up to 128 Zen 5 and 192 Zen 5C core offerings in the family.

Moving over to the client, AMD is positioning its Ryzen Strix APUs as the "next major step" in its AI PC roadmap. AMD's Strix APUs will be a very important product for the company in its client offerings, targeting the premium market segment with a mix of next-gen core IPs including Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3+ GPU, and XDNA 2 NPU cores, all packed under a single roof. The Strix APUs will be launched in the second half of this year.

Based on what we know, AMD's Ryzen Strix APUs will come in two flavors, a higher-end chiplet, and a standard monolithic die. The former will be aimed at the enthusiast segment while the latter will be designed for thin and light platforms while offering significant performance increases. The NPU performance is already stated to be 3 times faster than the existing Ryzen Hawk "8040" APUs. AMD also expects to launch more mainstream product families as it moves into 2025 such as the Ryzen Kraken APUs.

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