AMD is definitely going a different route for their next-gen Ryzen CPUs.
A leaked render of the AM5 socket has surfaced, and it looks very similar to that of a typical Intel socket. And rightfully so, because AMD is going the LGA route for AM5. WCCFTech also reports that the socket will be sporting the LGA 1718 pin design, meaning 1,718 pins on the motherboard correspond to the equal number of contacts on the processor itself.
The renders of the new AMD socket comes from a Twitter page called ExecutiveFix:
A first look at the AM5 socket, once again in the form of a 3D-render pic.twitter.com/84T6wUjpQ2— ExecutableFix (@ExecuFix) July 29, 2021