AMD Zen 2 CPU release date, specs, and performance

The AMD Zen 2 CPU architecture is the next generation processor design set to land on our desktops next year. It will also be the first 7nm x86 CPU to hit the market… before Intel can get its own 10nm chips out the door. Zen 2 represents a brand new, unique approach to AMD’s CPUs and promises to really turn the screw on its Intel competition, both in terms of overall core-count and in its relative performance. AMD has confirmed a 2019 release for the new Zen 2 CPU design, and has recently unveiled some of the architectural magic which promises to make the next-gen AMD processors the best the company has ever produced. And potentially the most advanced CPUs on the market when they launch next year. Along with the new 7nm process node, AMD is taken a modular approach, still using some 14nm silicon in the design to keep costs down and yields high. This new approach will allow the company to double the core density of the architecture, which could potentially mean 16-core chips hitting our desktops. Quite what we’d do with those extra cores in our gaming rigs, I don’t really know, but it would comfortably increase both the core-count and process node lead over Intel.