AMD announces its new Ryzen 7000-series CPUs are now faster than we all thought
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AMD has today taken the wraps off its new Ryzen 7000-seres CPUs, claiming higher than expected performance for its new Zen 4 processors. It also promised the best gaming CPU will land on September 27 for $699. That’s the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X, and, contrary to the earlier pricing rumours, that puts it a full $100 below the original price of the similarly specced Zen 3 Ryzen 9 5950X.
The initial gen-on-gen performance boost for the new Zen 4 CPUs was between 8 and 10% instructions per clock (IPC) increase, but the biggest surprise of today’s keynote at AMD’s Austin tech day is the upwards adjustment of that number to ~13%.
For contrast, the 19% IPC boost for Zen 3 over Zen 2 was called «historic» at the time, and this isn’t a million miles off that. For something that was suspected might be a bit more iterative in terms of performance gains that’s not looking bad.
Obviously, we’re relying on normalised metrics, and a geomean score across multiple different benchmarks—both computational and gaming—so that still has to be taken with a touch of salt until we get the different chips into our own test rigs for a proper CPU playtest.
For us gamers the single threaded metrics are arguably more important than an ephemeral IPC increase, and AMD is also adjusting the previous 15% total single threaded performance gain up to 29%. That’s almost double, though that number is taken from a Geekbench test compared to a 5950X chip, rather than anything actually gaming related.
But AMD isn’t just promising stellar gaming performance on its most powerful, highest spec processor, at today’s event in Austin Dr. Lisa Su also demonstrated just how far ahead of Intel’s Core i9 12900K its lower-end Ryzen 5 7600X is in gaming terms.
After initially showing AMD’s new six-core CPU besting Intel’s 16-core Alder Lake chip by 11% in F1 2022, it showed an average 5% gain over the competition across a suite of five games.
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It does bear saying that of those five games, Cyberpunk 2077 shows a tie with Intel, and GTA V shows a 3% deficit in gaming performance. Still, we are talking about a $299 processor being able to deliver against a $650 (at launch) chip, which is an impressive showing.
In between the Ryzen 9 7950X at the top and the Ryzen 5 7600X at the bottom of the initial four CPU launch stack there’s the Ryzen 9 7900X and the Ryzen 7 7700X processors. Pricing-wise, the rest of the new chips are either the same price at launch as their predecessors or, in the case of the 7700X, a little cheaper than the equivalent Zen 3 octa-core processor.
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| Header Cell — Column 0 | Price | Cores | Threads | Base clock | Boost clock | Cache (L2+L3) | TDP |
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| Ryzen 9 7950X | $699 | 16 | 32 | 4. 5GHz |
5.7GHz | 80MB | 170W |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $549 | 12 | 24 | 4.7GHz | 5.6GHz | 76MB | 170W |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $399 | 8 | 16 | 4.5GHz | 5.4GHz | 40MB | 105W |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $299 | 6 | 12 | 4.7GHz | 5.3GHz | 38MB | 105W |
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The new chips will launch at the end of September alongside a whole new motherboard chipset and socket.
The new X670 and X670 Extreme motherboards will launch at the same time, starting at $125, though with many, many far more expensive options being offered out by the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI.
The more affordable B650 and recently announced B650 Extreme boards won’t appear until October, though will still offer both PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support, but with only the Extreme version offering both graphics and storage support for PCIe 5. Though if you were hoping PCIe 5.0 SSDs might launch alongside Zen 4 it looks like that’s slipped a bit, as now the first next-gen SSD is set for a November 2022 launch.
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AMD teases next-generation 5nm Ryzen 7000 desktop chips with Zen 4
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AMD teased its next-generation desktop chips at CES 2022, with CEO Lisa Su announcing that its Ryzen 7000 chips, using the company’s upcoming Zen 4 architecture and built on a new 5nm process, will be arriving in the second half of 2022.
The Ryzen 5000 series — led by the flagship Ryzen 5950X — was released in October 2020, when it managed to beat out Intel’s then-top-of-the-line Core i9-10900K. Intel has since reclaimed the gaming crown in most cases with its 12th Gen Core i9-12900K, which were the first desktop chips to be built on Intel’s 10nm process (which the company has since rebranded to “Intel 7”) after years of using its increasingly outdated 14nm tech.
AMD is looking to make another technical jump forward and reclaim its lead with the upcoming Zen 4 chips, which are set to be built on TSMC’s 5nm process and in turn should offer another big advance in processing power by letting AMD cram more transistors into its CPUs.
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The next-gen chips will also feature a new AM5 socket, with AMD switching to an LGA design (where the pins for connecting a chip to the motherboard are located on the motherboard, instead of the current PGA design that AMD has used in the past where pins are locked on the chips).
Additionally, the new chips will support PCIe Gen 5 and DDR5, bringing AMD’s upcoming hardware in line with Intel’s recently released 12th Gen Alder Lake chips for desktop. And despite the change in socket technology, AMD promises that existing AM4 coolers will still work with the new AM5 sockets.
The company isn’t giving too many details for now, though, so we’ll have to wait until AMD is ready to more formally reveal the new chips later this year.
In the meantime, AMD is showcasing an upgraded version of its Ryzen 5000 desktop chip design that’ll utilize its 3D V-Cache technology: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which the company says is the “world’s fastest gaming processor,” outclassing both AMD’s own Ryzen 9 5900X and Intel’s Core i9-12900K. AMD says that the new chips are the first gaming chips to use its 3D stacking tech, which allows for a roughly 15 percent boost in gaming performance compared to the Ryzen 5900X.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D has eight cores, 16 threads, a 3.4 GHz base speed with up to 4.
5GHz boosted speeds, a 105W TDP, and is compatible with both AMD’s 400 series and 500 series motherboards with AM4 sockets. Unlike the upcoming Ryzen 7000 chips, it’s still on the 7nm node, however, and uses the existing Zen 3 architecture. It’ll ship later this spring, although AMD has yet to announce a price.
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AMD has officially unveiled the new AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series processors: new socket AM5, DDR5 support, PCIe 5.0 support, and 5nm process technology.
The release includes 4 processors, including the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X, as well as Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. AMD builds new Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series processors on a new 5nm process node. nine0003
AMD claims the new processors provide a 13% IPC improvement over Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 series processors, with a maximum frequency of up to 5.7GHz, resulting in a 29% improvement in single-threaded performance.
New Zen 4 processors ship on the new AM5 socket which is backwards compatible with most AM4 coolers and uses the LGA1718 socket. Along with the new Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series processors, AMD will launch next-generation X670E, X670, B650E, and B650 motherboards that support not only DDR5 memory but also PCIe 5.
0 for new graphics cards and SSDs. nine0003
Supports PCIe 5.0 GPU or PCIe 5.0 SSD, or both, depending on the board, if you purchase the «Extreme» motherboard, designated «E» in the X670E and B650E models.
Prices for processors:
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950x — 699 dollars
- AMD Ryzen 9 7900x — $ 549
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700x — 399 dollars
- Up to 16 Zen 4 cores and 32 threads
- +29% performance increase in single-threaded applications
- Brand new Zen 4 processor cores (IPC / architectural improvements)
- New TSMC 5nm process node with 6nm IOD
- 25% performance gain per watt over Zen 3
- >35% overall performance gain over Zen 3
- ~13% IPC gain over Zen 3
- Support for AM5 platform with LGA1718 socket
- New motherboards X670E, X670, B650E, B650
- Dual channel DDR5 support
- TDP 105-120W (upper range ~170W)
AMD RYZEN 5 7600X — 299 dollars 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 AMD Ryzen: Zen4:
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