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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

A mockup of AMD Zen4 “Raphael” AM5 LGA1718 package has been leaked

Let's keep it going! Raphael is the first Zen 4 consumer chip and here's a first look

Raphael
- AM5 socket
- DDR5 (no DDR4)
- 28 PCIe 4.0 lanes (+4 compared to Zen 3)
- 120W TDP (170W possible as well 🤯) pic.twitter.com/5DcTmjdqNd

— ExecutableFix (@ExecuFix) May 25, 2021

Not sure what I should think of Raphael

1. No DDR4 fallback means high memory prices guaranteed
2. 4 more PCIe lanes is great, but sadly still 4.0. Still not too shabby and those 4 extra lanes certainly come in handy.
3. The increased TDP doesn't bode well to me. Like, at all. Looks to me like AMD wants to out-Intel Intel in holding the clock speed crown, performance/watt and efficiency be damned.
4. Why change to LGA?

The TDP increase could also be because AMD wants to increase the number of cores again. We've had rumors regarding Zen4 based EPYC processors saying that those new processos would feature extra chiplets for extra cores, and it wouldn't be surprising if AMD wants to bring that increase to desktop as well.

I woudln't complain if the Ryzen 3 parts went from 4 to 6 or even 8 cores, leaving the 2 and 4 core processors to Athom or whatever AMD calls their Pentium equivalent nowadays.

Plus, the higher TDP would only be really noticeable for the high-end processors, the 7900/7950 ones.