Amd ryzen 4: AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 Specs, Release Date, Benchmarks, Price Listings

AMD Ryzen 7000: availability, specs, and performance

AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs are here, and there are plenty of them to go around. AMD started out strong by introducing the best processors in the Zen 4 lineup, including the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X, and then followed up by launching even more CPUs. Now, the Ryzen 7000 family includes a whole host of desktop and mobile CPUs, and the 3D V-Cache versions of AMD’s chips are right around the corner.

Contents

• Pricing and availability
• Specs
• Architecture
• Performance
• New chipset and a new socket
• Integrated graphics and APUs

We’ve already had the chance to test some of AMD’s latest and greatest, and with more to come, we’ve kept our ears to the ground to not miss any details about the upcoming CPUs. Here’s everything we know about Ryzen 7000.

Pricing and availability

AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs came out on September 27, 2022, a bit later than some rumors had predicted. It’s probably not a coincidence that September 27 was also the day Intel announced the competing 13th-generation Raptor Lake CPUs; perhaps AMD decided a delay wasn’t just necessary, but also welcome.

The first wave of Ryzen 7000 CPUs arrived with the following recommended prices:

• Ryzen 9 7950X: $699
• Ryzen 9 7900X: $549
• Ryzen 7 7700X: $399
• Ryzen 5 7600X: $299

Not long after their release, the processors got an unofficial discount that seems to have lasted to this day. As a result, you can find the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X for around $600, and the other chips are cheaper too.

Pricing has actually improved for the eight- and 16-core models. The 7950X is cheaper than the original 16-core flagship 3950X was when it launched in 2019. The 7700X is also cheaper than the 5800X, though it would have been nice to see the 7700X match the price of the $300 5700X, but it’s not that far off. While many people expected higher prices for most of these CPUs, we can be quite relieved that prices are either flat or lower than before.

AMD followed up by launching even more Zen 4 processors. The company revealed a massive number of chips during CES 2023, and the new lineup includes both desktop and mobile options.

For desktops, AMD announced three new chips sporting the 3D V-Cache that made the Ryzen 7 5800X3D so successful. These processors are set to arrive in February 2023, and the lineup includes the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

As mentioned, the Zen 4 family has also expanded to include a truckload of mobile chips that will begin popping up in some of this year’s best laptops starting in March. This range is split in two: Ryzen 7040 and Ryzen 7045. The latter are aimed at gamers, with the top chip sporting 16 cores, and the Ryzen 7040 chips are going to be found in productivity-oriented laptops that don’t consume too much power.

Specs

The Ryzen 7000 range consists of Zen 4 desktop CPUs, their 3D V-Cache counterparts, and two mobile lineups. Let’s take a look at all of their specs, starting with the desktop Ryzen 7000.

	Ryzen 9 7950X	Ryzen 9 7900X	Ryzen 7 7700X	Ryzen 5 7600X
Cores/threads	16/32	12/24	8/16	6/12
Boost clock speed	5.7GHz	5.6GHz	5.4GHz	5.3GHz
Base clock speed	4.5GHz	4.7GHz	4.5GHz	4.7GHz
Cache (L2 + L3)	80MB	76MB	40MB	38MB
TDP	170W	170W	105W	105W

The big changes with this generation of CPUs come in the form of clock speed, cache boosts, and a higher TDP to account for it. Thanks to improvements to the Zen 4 architecture and a new, more efficient 5nm process node, AMD has been able to take its Ryzen 7000 CPUs well north of 5GHz for the first time. That does come at the cost of TDP, however. Where the last-generation Ryzen 5950X had a TDP of just 105 watts, the 7950X with the same 16 cores is now rated for a 170W TDP. It actually pulled around 200W when maxed out in our testing (more on that below).

	Ryzen 9 7950X3D	Ryzen 9 7900X3D	Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Cores/threads	16/32	12/24	8/16
Boost clock speed	5.7GHz	5.6GHz	5GHz
Base clock speed	4.2GHz	4.4GHz	4.4GHz
Cache (L2 + L3)	144MB	140MB	104MB
TDP	120W	120W	120W

The three processors listed above utilize AMD’s 3D V-cache technology. They come with extra cache stacked on top of the chip, and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D sports a whopping 144MB — a notable increase over the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which has 96MB. Even the direct follow-up to the 5800X3D kicks things up a notch, with a combined cache of 104MB.

	Ryzen 9 7945HX	Ryzen 9 7845HX	Ryzen 7 7745HX	Ryzen 5 7645HX
Cores/threads	16/32	12/24	8/16	6/12
Boost clock speed	5.4GHz	5.2GHz	5.1GHz	5.0GHz
Base clock speed	2.5GHz	3.0GHz	3.6GHz	4.0GHz
Cache (L2 + L3)	80MB	76MB	40MB	38MB
TDP	55-75W	45-75W	45-75W	45-75W

Coming up next, we have the Ryzen 7045-series laptop chips currently being released in four different models ranging from the high-end Ryzen 9 to the midrange Ryzen 5. In many ways, these chips share some specs in common with their desktop counterparts — they have the same core counts and cache sizes, but the clock speeds and the TDP are both lower. These processors will be found in gaming laptops.

	Ryzen 9 7940HS	Ryzen 7 7840HS	Ryzen 5 7640HS
Cores/threads	8/16	8/16	6/12
Boost clock speed	5.2GHz	5.1GHz	5.0GHz
Base clock speed	4.0GHz	3.8GHz	4.3GHz
Cache (L2 + L3)	24MB	24MB	22MB
TDP	35W-54W	35W-54W	35W-54W

Lastly, the Phoenix Range processors feature cutdown specs, but are also a lot more power-conservative. The core counts are kept fairly low, but the clock speeds are still more than decent. You’ll also notice that the cache size has been drastically reduced. The drop in specifications shouldn’t be a problem, because these are not gaming chips — you’ll find them in lightweight, productivity-oriented laptops.

Architecture

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The Ryzen 7000 chips are based on the new Zen 4 architecture. It continues the evolution of the chiplet design pioneered on Zen 2 and is built on TSMC’s new enhanced 5nm process node.

The 5nm node — known as N4 at chipmaker TSMC — is said to offer either a 15% boost in clock speed at the same power or a 30% reduction in power consumption at the same frequency, in addition to 1.8 times greater transistor density over N7.

As for the design improvements of the architecture itself, AMD promised an 8% to 10% instruction per clock (or IPC) boost at its Financial Analyst Day in June, but AMD has since revised that figure to 13%. That’s a smaller improvement compared to last-gen’s Zen 3, but we haven’t talked about clock speed.

AMD has targeted extremely high clock speeds with Ryzen 7000. AMD finally hit the 5GHz mark on its Zen CPUs with Ryzen 6000 mobile and Ryzen 5000 capped out at 4.9 GHz. But Ryzen 7000 blows right past last-generation chips and features clock speeds as high as 5.7 GHz, albeit in single-threaded workloads. At the same time, Ryzen 7000 is 25% more efficient than Ryzen 5000, thanks to the 5nm node and decent IPC improvements offsetting the increase in frequency.

Cache is also a focus for Ryzen 7000, as each Zen 4 core is now equipped with 1MB of L2 cache rather than the 512KB we saw on Zen 3. L3 cache was not increased within the CPU itself, but AMD was quick to remedy that by introducing the 3D V-Cache chips that come with up to 144MB of combined cache. Counting both L2 and L3 cache, the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X has 80MB total, and a theoretical Ryzen 7 7700X3D with V-Cache could have up to 104MB.

Ryzen 7000 also features a TDP increase for its flagship parts, from 125 watts on Ryzen 3000 and 5000 to 170 watts. Prior 12- and 16-core models were constrained by the 125-watt limit, hence the increase. Another interesting change is the addition of integrated RDNA 2 graphics, but they aren’t very powerful. One might wonder why AMD would decide to add a weak iGPU to its desktop CPUs, but it’s likely because AMD wants to be able to sell this CPU in machines without discrete graphics and also in laptops such as Dragon Range. Fortunately, as you’ll see below, they might be limited, but the onboard graphics are more than enough to game on.

Those graphics are stored not on the CPU chipsets, but on the I/O die, which is now on TSMC’s 6nm node, a more economical version of its 7nm node. Graphics aren’t the only new addition to the I/O die, though, as AI acceleration features are built in as well.

Performance

Higher IPC, higher clock speeds, and more cache are basically the perfect formula for great performance, and AMD delivered in style with Ryzen 7000. In our own testing of the 7950X, we found that it made major leaps over both the 5950X and its main competitor from Intel (for now), the Intel Core i9-12900K.

In single-core performance, the 7950X shows an impressive 31% improvement over the 5950X — that’s greater than even its ambitious 29% claims made previously. That should deliver a big boost in general compute performance and in specific applications that really thrive on extra clock speed and cache, like Photoshop.

Games also love that kind of per-core enhancement, and in our testing, the 7950X was able to handily beat the 12900K and the previous AMD gaming king, the 5800X3D.

CPUs aren’t the arbiter of gaming performance that they once were, but they still play a part, and faster CPUs can unlock additional GPU performance in CPU-bound games. In our spread of tested titles, we found the 7950X delivered around 13% higher frame rates in games on average, but in some, like Forza Horizon 4, it jumped by as much as 28% over the 5950X. It was around 10% faster than the 5800X3D, but in some games, it was as much as 18% quicker.

The 12900K offers stiffer competition in some games, but even then, the 7950X is the clear winner. Intel will have a tough fight to regain that ground with its next-generation designs.

Real-world productivity applications showed impressive gains, too, giving the 7950X the multi-threaded crown again after AMD lost it to the best Alder Lake designs. This makes Ryzen 7000 a very attractive buy for anyone using their PC for creative means.

We don’t have the rest of the Ryzen 7000 range to test just yet, but if the 7950X is anything to go by, Zen 4 should be very special indeed. AMD has claimed that the $300 7600X is a better gaming CPU than the 12900K, a claim we’ll definitely want to examine in detail.

Ryzen 7000’s main competition isn’t Intel’s  12th-gen Alder Lake; it’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake. We’ve compared the Ryzen parts to Intel’s best processors of this generation and found them often going head-to-head. Let’s take a closer look.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X and the Core i9-13900K were evenly matched on many occasions. In the Cinebench R23 single-core test, the Intel chip shows a slight lead over AMD that grows bigger in the multi-core test. However, when we ran the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, we found that the AMD and Intel flagships scored almost exactly the same.

Next, we tested the processors in a gaming setting. Again, it’s safe to say that they’re butting heads, but that will change when AMD’s 3D V-Cache parts land on the shelves. Much like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was pretty much the best gaming processor in terms of raw performance and efficiency, there’s a high chance that its Zen 4 counterparts will excel in gaming.

We paired the CPUs with an RTX 3090 and 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and tested them in various games. In Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and the Intel Core i9-13900K maintained the same frames per second (fps), averaging 128 fps. In Red Dead Redemption 2, Ryzen takes a small lead over Intel, while in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Intel wins by a few frames. All in all, they’re fairly even, but that may soon change in AMD’s favor when we get the chance to test the upcoming Ryzen 9 7950X3D.

New chipset and a new socket

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With the next generation of CPUs, AMD is retiring the AM4 socket that it has used since the launch of first-generation Ryzen chips. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, as the socket is now 5 years old.

This new socket uses an LGA1718, Land Grid Array design, with the CPU pins on the motherboard instead of on the CPU. Intel has used LGA sockets for several generations, while AMD has stuck with the older Pin Grid Array (PGA) socket design for everything up to Ryzen 5000.

As the name suggests, LGA1718 features 1,718 pins on the motherboard. LGA designs can support a higher pin density, and that’s clear to see with AM4’s mere 1,331 pins. Those additional pins help open up support for DDR5 memory, as well as PCI-Express 5.0 and improved overall performance.

Those new AM5 sockets will be part of a new generation of 600 series motherboards. The X670E extreme motherboards offer the highest-quality voltage regulator modules for enhanced overclocking and will have PCI-E 5 support on every M. 2 and PCIe slot. X670 boards will feature mainstream overclocking potential, PCIe 5.0 on both the first x16 PCIe 5.0 slot, and at least one M.2 slot. B650 motherboards will have PCIe 5.0 for at least one M.2 slot and will feature PCIe 4.0 for the actual slots.

These new motherboards will bring with them support for up to 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes, 14 USB ports running up to 20Gbps, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2. Better yet, thanks to the new integrated graphics, AMD 600 motherboards will be able to support up to four HDMI 2.1 or DisplayPort 2 ports.

Although AMD is moving to a new socket design, Ryzen 7000 chips will use the same socket size and will fully support AM4 coolers.

Integrated graphics and APUs

By including the GPU on the I/O die instead of the main CPU chiplets, AMD isn’t having to make any sacrifices to add integrated graphics, so all Ryzen 7000 chips will have an onboard RDNA 2 GPU. Ryzen 7000 won’t replace APUs, though. Instead, the included graphics are meant to aid in troubleshooting as well, to enable AMD to sell its desktop CPUs in other machines that normally have integrated graphics, like laptops and desktops for business.

Although AMD has said that the onboard GPUs aren’t designed with gaming in mind, we found the 7950X is perfectly capable of gaming using only its onboard GPU cores. It delivered playable frame rates at 1080p with medium settings in Forza Horizon 4, Rocket League, and Rainbow Six Siege. 

It’s not stellar, but it’s completely viable, opening up the door for low-level Zen 4 CPUs that can play games without a GPU at all, and for anyone who wants to stagger buying their gaming PC components by starting with a Zen 4 CPU and adding a dedicated GPU later. It’s also great for troubleshooting if something goes wrong with your main card.

AMD’s new 3D V-Cache chips also come equipped with RDNA 2 technology, although it’s unlikely that anyone will be using them without a top-notch GPU to match — they’re gaming processors through and through.

In the mobile sector, things get a little bit more interesting. AMD has chosen to use RDNA 2 iGPUs on the gaming-oriented Ryzen 7045 series. Again, this makes sense — as these chips are meant to end up in gaming laptops, it’s likely that they will feature a discrete graphics card. However, the Ryzen 7040 APU series kicks things up a notch by introducing RDNA 3 onboard graphics.

AMD seems confident in the capabilities of RDNA 3 graphics in its new APUs, and it’s true that they may offer some of the best performance in that part of the market. The iGPUs seem to be intensely powerful, with clock speeds reaching close to 3GHz. AMD promises next-level performance in creative workflows, productivity, and AI-related tasks.

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AMD Blitzes CES With Cache-Fueled Zen 4 CPUs, A Ryzen And Radeon 7000 Mobile Arsenal And AI

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su At The Company’s CES 2023 Keynote Address

Dave Altavilla

There’s a silicon slugfest going on right now between AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) and its chief rivals Intel and NVIDIA. If it were not for the continued execution machine that AMD has proven itself to be under the leadership of its CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, one might think this stiff competition is an extremely tall order. But AMD is apparently oblivious, because the company continues a relentless pace of innovation. In fact, on Wednesday evening during Dr. Su’s CES 2023 keynote, there was so much to unpack from the data center to the desktop and mobile client, that I’m kind of breaking a sweat at the heavy lifting required for even a high level synopsis. That’s OK though, I’m buckling my chinstrap and dropping a shoulder.

One aspect of Dr. Su’s stage presentation that impressed me were some of the partner endorsements, including Microsoft, which is an ecosystem partner that doesn’t casually appear on stage with another brand. However, seeing Panos Panay step in to share the limelight with AMD on the topic of AI, was just a feather in the company’s cap. But I digress; let’s limber-up and dive in.

Ryzen 7000 And Radeon RX 7000 Mobile Power A New Breed Of All-AMD Laptops With XDNA AI

A moment that laptop OEMs were apparently waiting for as well, was the announcement of AMD Ryzen 7000 and Radeon RX 7000 processors and graphics chips for laptops. Let’s start with the CPUs, and though its decoder ring is a bit of an eye chart here on Forbes, AMD unveiled a big family of chips based on its new Zen 4 and legacy Zen 3/3+ microarchitectures, some of which have the company’s new RDNA 3 graphics cores board, which based on the same tech as its new Radeon RX 7900 series discrete graphics cards.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Mobile Processor Lineup

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As you can (hopefully) see above, AMD has a new naming convention that is a bit complex but transparent and detailed. The 7 designates the model year and family, and a 4, 3 or 2 in the third digit location designates the CPU core architecture as Zen 4, Zen 3 or even Zen 2 for the company’s entry level chips. So Ryzen 7030 and 7020 series CPUs are essentially scaled back and optimized legacy chips, while Ryzen 7040 series CPUs are where the new blood is.

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Dragon Range Coupled With Discrete AMD Radeon RX 7000

AMD’s Ryzen 7045, aka Dragon Range, will be comprised of 16-core Zen 4 offerings with previous-gen AMD RDNA 2 (Navi 2X) graphics cores on board and support for DDR5 memory. Laptops powered by this platform will be larger enthusiast gaming or beastly content creation mobile workstation type machines. These machines will likely be equipped with discrete graphics chips as well, including AMD’s new Radeon RX 7000M series, that I invite you to check out at HotHardware for a full deep-dive.

AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT Performance Claims

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AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 mobile family is comprised of 4 new mobile GPU offerings, known as the Radeon RX 7600M XT, RX 7600M, RX 7700S and RX 7600S, the latter of which are power-optimized for thinner and lighter gaming notebooks. The company is comparing its top-end Radeon RX 7600M XT mobile GPU to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 desktop-class performance, which is definitely stronger than the competition’s mobile RTX 3060 offering. However, where it will line-up versus NVIDIA’s higher-end RTX 30 or just announced GeForce RTX 40 series mobile offering remains to be seen.

AMD Phoenix Infused With RDNA 3 And Xilinx DNA

AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Features And Specs, With AMD XNDA On-Board AI Acceleration

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The new AMD Ryzen 7040 Series, however, is designed for what AMD is calling the “Elite Ultrathin” laptop segment, and also sports Zen 4 CPU architecture with 8-core designs, along with up to 12-core on-chip AMD RNDA 3 graphics (Navi 33) and something new called AMD XDNA. This new AMD mobile CPU design is the most exciting to me, personally, both because of its strong on-board RDNA 3 GPU engine, as well as its Xilinx FPGA-based AI accelerator. This chip marks the first true AMD integration of Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology with its CPU and GPU tech, on a single monolithic die, built on TSMC’s 4N process node.

AMD Ryzen AI Mobile Experience Advantages Powered By Xilinx FPGA Technology

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So, in addition to strong GPU cores for content creation and some lighter-duty gaming, AMD’s Phoenix Ryzen 7040 series will have a more efficient, dedicated AI engine for accelerating workloads like machine vision and collaboration. Think background noise elimination on your Zoom calls, as well as head tracking and framing, studio background blur camera effects, etc. Intel has been driving the adoption of on-board AI accelerators for a while, but this is the first time a reconfigurable block of logic has come to a consumer laptop client device to my knowledge. The technology’s potential down the road, as new use cases and workloads evolve, will be very interesting to watch.

AMD’s Desktop Ryzen Zen 4 Onslaught Continues With 3D V-Cache And A Value Play For Gamers

Almost everybody in the industry saw this coming — and it was even hinted at in a recent interview I had with my colleagues and former AMD Director Of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock on the initial launch of the company’s Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 desktop chips — but yes, the day is finally here where AMD is unveiling new Ryzen 7000 series enthusiast processors strapped with sweet 3D V-Cache that helps these chips game so well. As with AMD’s previous gen Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the new Ryzen 7 7800X3D has been outfitted with 64MB 3D V-Cache bolted-on for a total of 96MB of shared L3 cache (104MB with L2 and L3 combined). What this affords is the ability for the CPU to go off-chip less often to system memory, with its cache complement maintaining a larger scratch-pad for frequently access data and metadata that game engines so frequently crave.

AMD Claims Ryzen 7 7800X3D With 3D V-Cache Is The New Ultimate Gaming Processor

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Gaming Performance Gains Over Its Previous Generation Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU

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This additional cache memory pool required AMD to scale back clock speed by 400 MHz to mitigate power and thermals, but the company proclaims the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the new “Ultimate Gaming Processor,” with significant gains of up to 30% over its previous gen Ryzen 7 5800X3D Zen 3 chip.

AMD Ryzen 7000X3D Series Lineup

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But that wasn’t the only 3D V-Cache infused CPU that AMD unveiled, the company also brought a 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D to the fold, as well as a beastly Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-core chip, with 3D V-Cache strapped to one of its 8-core CCDs (Core Chiplet Die). This may sounds a touch unbalanced but AMD notes that it has worked with Microsoft on its scheduler functionality to accommodate for this. In short, apps like games that benefit from the added cache block will be able to take advantage of it, while those that don’t will run on the other CCD at higher clock speeds, or both at nominal clock speeds. As you can see in the slide above, the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D have top-end clocks of 5.6GHz and 5.7GHz, respectively.

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Non-X Processors And Pricing

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In addition to this trio of high-end chips (pricing hasn’t been revealed yet but I wouldn’t expect these premium enthusiast CPUs to be cheap), AMD also revealed a trio of mainstream Zen 4-based non-X branded Ryzen 7000 chips, called Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700 and Ryzen 5 7600. These are completely unlocked (for overclocking), lower power 65 Watt CPUs that drop in at great price points, and will be available starting 1/10/23.

For The Data Center, Instinct MI300, Big And Strapped With Many Chiplets This Way Comes

There’s little question AI (Artificial Intelligence) or machine learning, is the new frontier for many industries, from big data analytics and supercomputing, to healthcare, science and finance. AMD of course has been hard at work for years developing AI acceleration engines that are built on its core CPU, GPU and FPGA technologies, and in Ms. Su’s keynote we were treated to the culmination of thousands of ours of engineering effort that have resulted in what the company has unveiled as its new Instinct MI300 AI Accelerator.

AMD Instinct MI300 AI Accelerator Chip With CPUs, GPUs And HBM3 Chiplets

Marco Chiappetta

AMD’s new Instinct MI300 will be bound for data center servers tasked with some of the most intense machine learning workloads and is built on 24 Zen 4 AMD EPYC server CPU cores and an undisclosed number of its latest gen CDNA 3 GPU cores (similar to RDNA 3 for gaming but optimized for GPU-compute workloads). This massive slab of silicon is comprised of 146 billion transistors and is also equipped with 128GB of HBM3 (High Bandwidth Memory).

AMD Instinct MI300 AI Accelerator Performance Claims

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The company is claiming an 8X performance lift in AI workloads versus its previous generation Instinct MI250 accelerator, and a 5X lift in performance-per-watt, which if realized will be great for AMD’s AI accelerator TCO metrics as well as sustainability through better power efficiency.

Wrapping things up here isn’t so easy, and I still have a lot to digest personally with all of AMD’s disclosures during Dr. Lisa Su’s CES 2023 keynote address. However, there’s one thing for sure and its that this company isn’t taking its foot off the gas on any of its core technologies and market segments. In addition, the integration and rollout of its acquisition of Xilinx is progressing along seemingly very well, not only with a solid combined go-to-market strategy, but new silicon innovations on multiple fronts.

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Which processor to choose? Comparison of AMD or Intel

Processors Home News & Reviews AMD or Intel?

The processor market has long been divided by two giant companies with their vision of an ideal processor — AMD is trying to create a niche product with a low price, Intel focuses on top-end, productive processors. Which processor is better, Intel or AMD?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE OF AMD PROCESSORS FROM INTEL

Each processor has a different architecture, which directly affects its performance. Each processor has a number of basic parameters:

• Frequency
• The number of nuclei
• Graphic core
• Technician

cache

, STRECTIONALS, The results of comparison can be very radically different -8350K at 4GHz ($210) is 60% faster than AMD Athlon X4 840 at 3.1-3. 8GHz dynamic ($40). It is by performance that you need to compare processors, and not by frequencies and the number of cores.

PICKUP IN CHOOSING A PROCESSOR

If you are going to buy a processor for an already assembled computer, everything is greatly simplified. Just choose the right processor for your motherboard — the more expensive the processor, the more powerful it is. And although the increase in performance drops significantly closer to the most expensive options, there are simply no options to get a more powerful processor for a finished system unit.
However, budgeting for the processor of a future computer is somewhat more difficult. When comparing, do not forget about the cost of components that match the processor parameters and your requirements. The difference in price will be different when choosing the following components:

• Motherboard (sometimes $10-15 difference)
• Cooler (up to $10-15 difference depending on mounting type and power dissipation) )

HOW TO KNOW THE PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE?

There are many target sites for this, but SERVER. BY recommends userbenchmark.com. This performance comparison site contains real measurements of user performance (processors, video cards, SSDs, hard drives, flash drives, RAM). You can test the components of your computer yourself by downloading a free test on the site. When comparing processors, pay attention to the number of points scored in the following categories: 900 ($50-60)

If you are going to use a video card, and not integrated graphics in the processor, then we recommend taking a closer look at the 4-core AMD Athlon X4 950

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G vs. Intel Core i3-8100 ( $110-130)

Parity between Ryzen 3 and Core i3 processors, but Intel is slightly ahead of AMD: i3-8100 has higher single-core power. However, the third Ryzen is cheaper (-$20), and has more powerful integrated graphics Radeon Vega 8 (+55% performance) — you can easily run any game, even the most demanding one, but at the minimum settings (for example, Assassin`s Creed: Odyssey). Both processors are good in their own way, and are capable of opening most video cards, so the choice is in favor of Ryzen if the computer is planned without a video card. By the way, a very smart move is to invest as much as possible in a computer without a video card, and then pick it up and buy a new and powerful video card.

Intel Core i5-8400 versus AMD Ryzen 5 2600 ($190-215)

Ryzen 5 has the upper hand here. Yes, Core i5 wins in terms of core power, but look what a gap in the multi-threaded test! It affects the support of as many as twelve AMD threads against six Intel ones. And the price of $190 for Ryzen is more attractive than $215 for Core i5. The only plus. The presence of an integrated graphics core of the Intel processor is the only plus over the AMD processor, which is deprived of such joy. How significant this plus is, you decide. Let’s go further!

Intel Core i7-8700K vs. AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ($370-450)

Wow, this is hot! Again, Intel is ahead of AMD due to the power of individual cores. Although the Ryzen 7 is significantly faster in multi-threaded tasks, this is not enough to overtake the Core i7 — there is still a slight gap in the performance of the Intel processor. But wait, let’s take a look at the cost — the $370 Ryzen 7 2700X looks way better than the $450 Core i7-8700K. The clear winner is of course Ryzen, if it’s not about maximum performance.

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Looking at these tests, one thing can be said for sure?

• AMD processors cope better with multi-threaded tasks, more than 4 threads are mathematical calculations , archiving and copying large file arrays, converting files, working with video and 90.
• Intel processors show themselves faster in tasks using 1-4 threads — this is everyday work, web surfing, leisure, games and streaming , audio work .

This doesn’t mean that you can’t render on Intel and run broadcasts on AMD — these processors do an excellent job with all tasks. But if the question is about maximum efficiency in relation to the money invested, then try to stick to the list above.

ALL THE SAME — WHO IS THE WINNER, INTEL OR AMD?

There is not and will not be a clear winner — each company is strong in several segments. AMD processors focus on cheap multitasking, the ability to perform many tasks at the same time and inexpensively. Intel processors tend to have more power per core, and are better at tasks that don’t require a lot of processing power from multiple cores. In terms of reliability, SERVER.BY prefers Intel processors — most of the repaired computers in the service center fall on the AMD platform. As for the price, AMD processors are leading in the average price range of $100-200, but everything can change dramatically at any time, as it already happened with Intel processors in the fall of 2018. The sharp rise in price of the entire line of Intel products twice dramatically changed the balance of power in the direction of AMD.
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specifications and prices of Zen 4 processors / News / Overclockers.ua

AMD has officially introduced the Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) line of desktop processors based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture. It includes four models: Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. All of them have an AM5 design, support DDR5 RAM, high-speed PCI Express 5. 0 interface and will go on sale September 27th.

In the Ryzen 7000 desktop processors, the company continued to use the chiplet design, combining two 5nm chips with Zen 4 cores and a 6nm I / O crystal on one PCB. The maximum number of x86 cores, like the current Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) CPUs, is limited to 16.

The Zen 4 microarchitecture provides a 13% increase in IPC (the number of instructions executed per clock), which, coupled with high operating frequencies, significantly increased CPU performance. For example, for the flagship Ryzen 7 7950X, a single-thread performance increase of up to 29% is declared, and in games it is ahead of the Ryzen 9 5950X by 6-35%, depending on the project.

The I/O chip of Ryzen 7000 processors contains not only 28-lane DDR5-5600 and PCI-E 5.0 controllers, but also a 2nd generation RDNA graphics core. iGPU characteristics have not yet been disclosed, however, according to preliminary information, it will offer only two computing units (Compute Units, CU). By comparison, the Ryzen 6000 mobile APU graphics have up to 12 CUs.

Of course, new motherboards will be released along with the first AM5 processors. On the day of the release of the Ryzen 7000 CPU, it will be possible to buy models with the top-end AMD X670(E) chipset, and in October more affordable solutions with the B650(E) logic will appear. All of them will offer a set of tools necessary for overclocking Zen 4 processors, and will differ in the version of the PCI Express interface (5.0 or 4.0) and the number of lanes available.

The recommended prices for AM5 boards, as AMD representatives assured, will start at $125, and the platform’s life cycle will last until at least 2025. The characteristics and prices of the debut Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors are summarized in the table.

Processor	Cores / Threads	Frequency, GHz	TDP, W	L3 cache, MB	Recommended price
AMD Ryzen 7000 (Raphael/Zen 4)
Ryzen 9 7950X	16 / 32	4. On 6 марта, 2023 By alexxlab Sonstig