After a torrent of rumors and speculations over the past few months, AMD has officially announced the launch date for its next-generation CPU and GPU platforms. In a teaser video posted Wednesday, the company revealed that it will unveil its Zen 3-based Ryzen Desktop CPUs (codenamed ‘Vermeer’) on October 8, followed by the Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture on October 28.
It’s going to be an exciting fall for gamers… time to start a new journey with @AMDRyzen Zen3 and @Radeon RDNA2 pic.twitter.com/O9SXvLo4y0
Meanwhile, recent leaks have suggested that the upcoming CPUs will have higher clock speeds, and combined with a newer architecture based on an enhanced 7nm process, should offer faster performance than their predecessors. In fact, reports suggest that the upcoming CPU generation might bring the biggest leap in performance for AMD since the first-generation Zen chips.
