AMD will launch its first Zen 5 desktop processor in July, with the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X being called “the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.” Based on AMD’s existing AM5 platform, the new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs include Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X.
The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-core 32-thread CPU with 80MB L2+L3 cache and a 5.7GHz boost clock. AMD promises an approximately 16% improvement in instructions per cycle (IPC) performance compared to the previous generation of Ryzen CPUs, and is expected to achieve performance improvements in productivity and gaming.
“This is a huge leap forward and we’re very, very proud of it,” Donny Woligroski, AMD’s senior technical marketing manager for consumer processors, said in a press release with AMD. edge. “This is a monster. This processor performs extremely well against the competition.
AMD promises that the Blender performance of the new flagship 9950X will be up to 56% higher than the Intel Core i9-14900K, and even improved by 21% in Cinebench 2024. Borderlands 3performance improvement up to 23% horizon zero dawn.
At the heart of the 9950X is AMD’s new Zen 5 architecture. It still uses an AM5 slot, with the usual PCIe Gen 5 and DDR5 support, but there are some updates under the hood to deliver more performance, and AMD considers this to be more than a trivial update. “Sometimes Zen updates are not that important, but Zen 5 is a comprehensive update that greatly improves branch prediction accuracy and latency,” Woligroski said. “This is a very impressive difference, delivering up to twice the instruction bandwidth, up to twice the data bandwidth and up to twice the AI performance of the previous generation.”
AMD originally promised AM5 socket would launch in 2022, It will continue to see new processor support until at least 2025, but now it’s extending that commitment at Computex into 2027 or beyond. The previous AM4 socket was launched in 2016, and almost a decade later it’s still popular. AMD will even launch new 5900XT and 5800XT processors for AM4 motherboards in July. The original 5900X was a 12-core processor, but the 5900XT is now a 16-core, 32-thread CPU designed to compete with Intel’s mid-range 13th generation desktop CPUs. The 5800XT has 8 cores, 16 threads, and a boost clock of up to 4.8GHz.
AMD’s commitment to AM4 and now AM5 is impressive, especially compared to Intel, which is about to launch its fourth desktop socket since 2015. Replaces LGA 1700, It debuted in 2021, replacing the 2020 LGA 1200, which replaced the LGA 1151 used by Intel from 2015 to 2019.
“It really speaks to the success of the AM4 socket and the previous generation of processors that they lasted much longer than anyone thought the platform would,” Woligroski said. “The CPU vendor is committed to us being in this for the long term, and that’s the real advantage — if you want to upgrade at some point, you don’t have to throw out your system and start from scratch.”
While AM5 was delayed, AMD also launched new X870 and X870E motherboards chipsets for these new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs. You don’t need to use these new motherboards for these new CPUs, but they do come standard with USB 4.0, and they all include PCIe 5 Gen 5 for graphics and NVMe, even on the non-E X870 motherboards this time. They also support higher EXPO memory overclocking support, which is great for enthusiasts who want the best possible memory speeds.
Four new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs and the 5900XT / 5800XT will launch in July, but AMD has not yet provided pricing for any of the processors. Ryzen 9 9900X will include 12 cores, 24 threads, and 5.6GHz acceleration. Interestingly, its TDP is also 50 watts lower than the 7900X. The Ryzen 7 9700X comes with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a 5.5GHz boost clock. Finally, the Ryzen 5 9600X will have 6 cores and 12 threads with a maximum frequency of 5.4GHz.
