But compatibility should remain
This year, AMD should introduce many new processors based on the Zen 5 architecture. Among others, there will also be Granite Ridge desktop ones. It’s interesting that they can get the performance not AM5, but AM5+.
At least this is the name of the socket that appears in the MC Extractor data, where support for the upcoming AMD CPUs has been added.
The software detected two processors:
- AMD cpu00B40F40_ver0B404006_2024-02-02_D222E366;
- AMD cpu00B40F00_ver0B40002D_2023-10-27_9F40FB20.
There are no details, but there is a version that these are just different samples, and not different models.
We hear about the AM5+ socket for the first time. At the same time, AMD has already used a similar approach in naming its CPUs, so it can repeat it. You shouldn’t be afraid of changing the socket, since the company has previously directly said that AM5 will be relevant until at least 2025, and maybe longer, so if AM5+ comes out, compatibility with AM5 will be maintained.