AMD renews its CPU line-up with the introduction of a brand new architecture. Zen 3 is supposed to offer 26 percent more performance on the same 7 nm TSMC baking process.
AMD introduces its Ryzen 5000 desktop processors. Ryzen 5000 chips are still baked to the TSMC 7nm process familiar from Ryzen 3000 predecessors, but the architecture under the hood has been thoroughly refreshed. After all, the Ryzen 5000 processors are built on the completely reworked Zen 3 architecture. For clarification: Ryzen 4000 is the name for AMD’s mobile chips, so not a thousand is skipped.
Zen 3 brings 19 percent more instructions per cycle, according to AMD. In combination with a higher clock speed, this should provide a performance boost of 26 percent compared to chips from the previous generation. AMD does not need to boost the TDP for this. Ryzen 5000 also remains compatible with existing motherboards, so AMD system owners can perform a chip update without any hassle.
Line-up
AMD will initially come out with four new chips: two in the top Ryzen 9 series, a Ryzen 7 mid-engine and a still-powerful Ryzen 5 chip. All processors have multithreading on board and all have a TDP of 105 watts except for the Ryzen 5, which comes with 65 watts. It concerns the following models:
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X -16 cores / 32 threads, 3,4
GHz / 4,9 GHz, 72 MB cache, 799 dollar - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X -12 cores / 24 threads, 3,7
GHz / 4,8 GHz, 70 MB cache, 549 dollar - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X -8 cores / 16 threads, 3,8 GHz
/ 4,7 GHz, 36 MB cache, 499 dollar - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X -6 cores / 12 threads, 3,7 GHz
/ 4,6 GHz, 35 MB cache, 299 dollar
For the time being, we only know prices in dollars. It is noticeable that all CPUs are priced about $ 50 higher than the Zen 2 chips last year, although AMD continues to adopt a sharp strategy. The processors should be on the shelves on November 5.
AMD’s major competitor in this segment is the Intel Core i9-10900K. With its boost speed of 5.3 GHz, it has a higher maximum clock speed than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, but keeps it at 10 cores and 20 threads. In most workloads, the AMD line-up is therefore champion according to benchmarks of the manufacturer itself, although there are exceptions. When workloads are optimized for fewer threads and the clock speed is more important, the Intel chip wins. In addition, the Intel hardware is baked at 14 nm, which means a higher TDP (125 watts).
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