[Hardware] AMD Zen 3 ‘Ryzen 4000’ Desktop CPUs & RDNA 2 ‘Radeon RX Navi 2X’ GPUs On Track For 2020 Launch – EPYC Milan Ships Later This Year, 5nm Zen 4 in 2021

[Dr.Drako]

During its latest earnings call for the second quarter of 2020, AMD once again reaffirmed its plans to introduce Zen 3 based Ryzen 4000 Desktop CPUs and RDNA 2 based Radeon RX 'Navi 2X' GPUs in the second half of 2020. AMD stated that both its CPU and GPU products are on track and also provided an insight on its next-generation products featuring sub 7nm process nodes and launch in the coming years.

AMD Ryzen 4000 'Zen 3' Desktop CPUs & Radeon RX Navi 2X 'RDNA 2' Desktop GPUs On Track For 2020 Launch
AMD just posted its second all-time high revenue during Q2 2020 and the company revealed that the best is still yet to come. According to AMD's CEO, Dr.Lisa Su, AMD is on track to introduce two key products later this year. These include the client aimed Ryzen 4000 Desktop CPUs codenamed Vermeer which will be powered by the Zen 3 core architecture and the Radeon RX Desktop discrete graphics cards codenamed Navi 2X which will be powered by the RDNA 2 GPU architecture.

AMD had also recently confirmed that Zen 3 based Ryzen 4000 desktop processors would mark the continuation of its high-performance journey. The Zen 3 architecture would be first available on the consumer desktop platform with the launch of the Vermeer family of CPUs that will replace the 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 Matisse family of CPUs.

In addition to Zen 3 based consumer CPUs, AMD also talked about its Zen 3 powered EPYC lineup codenamed Milan. The 3rd Generation EPYC Milan family is stated to be on track to ship later this year. A while ago, AMD confirmed that they have Zen 3 Ryzen 4000 CPUs running in their labs and now they are confirming that EPYC Milan CPUs are also looking good in the labs. While EPYC Milan will be a major driver for AMD in 2021, AMD still expects some huge wins with its existing 2nd Gen EPYC Rome CPUs.

On that matter, AMD states that there are still a number of OEM and cloud-based platforms that are expected to launch in the second half of this year and during the first half of 2021. From the looks of it, EPYC Milan will start picking up momentum by the second half of 2021 as the company continues to work with its customers on Milan. AMD has also confirmed its first Zen 4 powered EPYC Genoa lineup to be introduced in the second half of 2021 and we can expect first shipments commencing by the end of 2021.

There could be no AMD earnings call without discussing graphics and AMD's CEO has confirmed that its RDNA 2 and CDNA 1 GPUs are expected to launch later this year. AMD's CEO also termed RDNA 2 as Big Navi, once again highlighting the fact that we will get to see enthusiast-grade GPUs first before moving into the more mainstream stack. AMD has previously confirmed that the Big Navi GPU will be the first RDNA 2 product to launch this year and even before the launch of next generation of consoles.

Lisa also stated that RDNA 2 isn't just aimed at the high-end market. It will be a full refresh from the top of the stack to the rest of the stack. This means that AMD is just aiming the enthusiast segment first and will introduce mainstream performance offerings within the first half of 2021.