AMD's next-generation Zen 4 processor architecture and Socket AM5 motherboards were the hot topic of the Computex trade show this week and PC enthusiasts and PC gamers were hanging off every word of the company's keynotes. The company has some fascinating new technologies and products in store for fall this year, but AMD's Robert Hallock, director of technical marketing, spoke to me today, answering some of the most pressing questions enthusiasts have about it's new CPUs and new platformYou can read it all here or watch the interview below. In short, we learn why Socket AM5 will be DDR5 only, how it's new 3D V-Cache technology will appear in future Ryzen 7000 CPUs, why it has the X670E chipset as well as X670 and if Threadripper is dead or AMD has the door open for it to return. Antony: I’d like to start with the present, then talk about Zen 4 stuff and the questions are both my own and also from my readers. So with the present then, The Ryzen 7 5800X3D was a very interesting addition to Socket AM4 and maybe even unexpected too given Zen 4’s proximity. Can you tell us why AMD decided to release it now – was it to showcase 3D V-cache or to bolster gaming performance against some decent competition? Robert: Can I answer yes to all of those? I think what you’ve seen from AMD and I'm not sure how often its recognized is we've been pushing packaging technology very hard. We get very focused on this Zen or that Zen or what process node we're on. But there's this third column of progress that AMD's been making when we went from monolithic dies to chiplets and mixed nodes and now with stacking and that's a five/ six year road map in the same way that Zen has been. So the time felt right to show what we can do with 3D stacking. Yes for gaming performance but also to give people a technical preview of where we're headed outside of Zen and what we can do for performance without iterating process or architecture. So you see AMD now with htree different columns of performance control that are all very significant and kind of equal in terms of benefit and all of them will play a role in our road map going forward. So it's one part look what we can do and one part we want to give a really strong finish to Socket AM4, even though its not going anywhere. We wanted to end on a high note. Antony: As far as 3D V-cache goes, is this going to be included on all Ryzen 7000 CPUs or will there be standard models and X3D models like we have with the Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Robert: I can't go into details yet, but I do want people to know that 3D V-Cache will live on, there will be Zen 4 with 3D V-Cache and it's not a one-off technology. Antony: Is the 5800X3D the last processor we’ll see launched on Socket AM4? Robert: I would say probably not. I don't really know what we plan to do with Socket AM4 but I think you saw Lisa talk about AM4 will continue, it will live on and it certainly has huge demand both from DIY builders and system customers.


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