AMD began its new hardware roll out early this year with the debut of Ryzen 3000 series mobile processors and the high-end Radeon VII graphics card in February. The real question on everyone's lips though, is when can we expect the truly new stuff. The Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture and AMD's long-rumored Navi graphics line up? The latest rumors suggest all of it will drop in July.
AMD has previously slated both ranges for a Summer-ish release date and a newly leaked roadmap gives us a more accurate idea of just how accurate a speculation that is. It suggests that the Ryzen 3000U and 3000H laptop CPUs would be released in Q1, which has proved true so far. That will reportedly be followed by a 3000G and 3000GE range of desktop processors, also based on the Zen+ architecture.
The big drop though is in Q3, which will see the Ryzen 3000 Matisse CPUs, with their 7nm chiplets and 14nm I/O dies release. Admittedly that could be anywhere between July and September, but AMD will want to try and get the drop on Intel before Ice Lake releases later this year, so it could well be that we'll see the new Zen 2 chips debut in July.
This will be followed closely after by Threadripper 3000 CPUs which will be released sometime between August and October, as per WCCFTech.
Navi is also rumored to make a debut at the same sort of time. That would allow AMD to offer a new unified platform of next-generation CPUs and graphics cards which together could offer fantastic performance at affordable price points. Although, there have also been rumors of a delay pushing that release back until October, so take all of this with a note of scepticism.
Image source: Planet3DNow
