AMD released its Zen 3 desktop processors last October, and if you've been looking for the best gaming CPU, then a chip from team red's current lineup is one of your best bets. Never one to rest on its laurels, however, AMD is looking towards its next generation Zen 4 chips, which will be based on a 5nm process and is expected to arrive sometime in 2022 with DDR5 and even PCIe 5.0 support.
The Zen 4 chips might just be worth holding out for if you can wait another year to upgrade, with a report from Chipsandcheese (via Wccftech) claiming some pretty impressive gains over the previous generation. These include IPC gains of 25%, and total performance improvements of 40%.
The source is careful to state that they can't say whether this is an over-exaggeration, and we'd agree with their cautiousness. But, thanks to the Zen 4 chips being on a smaller 5nm process as opposed to the 7nm Zen 3 chips, these gains do sound plausible. Putting it into context, AMD's first generation Ryzen processors had a 52% IPC gain over the previous Excavator architecture.
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