However, mydrivers claims that Zen4 has been delayed. This is not something new because Hassan Mujtaba (Wccftech) also considered this as a possibility. From what it seems, the announcement will be held on the 29th of August, however, the actual launch may differ by around 2 weeks.

I hope not but that’s what I am hearing. — Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) August 12, 2022 That puts Zen4’s launch date to around 27-28th of September. What’s interesting is that, Intel is also planning to unveil its Raptor Lake (announcement) at the very same date(s). New processors from team blue are often announced at their innovation event which takes place in the last week of September (27-28).  This is to be taken with a grain of salt because MSI accidentally leaked the launch date for its AM5 based X670E motherboards. As expected, the date mentioned is the 15th of September. Now of course, no AIB will bother launching its custom motherboards when the actual supported CPUs are not publicly available. All in all, we will know for sure on the 29th of August whether these leaks are true or not. AMD’s initial lineup for Zen4 looks interesting as they have skipped out a number of SKUs.

R5 7600X = 423.99CAD or $330R7 7700X = 613.99CAD or $479R9 7900X = 777.99CAD or $600R9 7950X = 1,140.99CAD or $900

This is certainly more expensive than Zen3 and the R7 7800X is no where to be found. Expect it to launch next year as a -3XD refresh possibly faster than the R9 7950X.

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