This document summarizes the design of AMD's "Zen 3" x86-64 microprocessor core. Some key points:
- "Zen 3" is AMD's second generation 7nm CPU core, designed to deliver higher performance than "Zen 2" through a 19% increase in instructions per clock (IPC) enabled by architectural changes and maintaining the same TSMC 7nm process.
- Changes from "Zen 2" include larger caches, increased instruction issue widths, faster floating point units, and higher load/store bandwidth. These changes aim to improve performance across desktop, mobile, and server segments.
- The core complex now includes 8 cores sharing 32MB of L3 cache, compared to 4 cores