AMD Announces Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Desktop Processors: What’s the Big Surprise?

Most of the recent rumors about AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 desktop processor plans have turned out to be true, and we learned almost everything about them during AMD CEO Lisa Su’s keynote address at the Comptex trade show in Taiwan today. These will launch in July and will feature up to 16 cores in the case of the Ryzen 9 9950X, offering an average of 16% more IPC, or instructions per cycle, compared to the Ryzen 7000 CPUs.

The two CPU lines have similar frequencies and cache amounts, so you’ll likely see this 16% performance boost in gaming software. However, that doesn’t mean the new CPUs will be faster than the older 3D V-Cache models. The extra cache will improve gaming performance in its own way, but AMD hasn’t mentioned any comparisons between the Ryzen 7000 3D V-Cache models and the Ryzen 9000.

The new Ryzen 9000 collection

The real specs have been very near maximum of the leaks and rumors over the previous couple of weeks, with a Ryzen nine 9950X flagship with sixteen cores, Ryzen nine 9900X with 12 cores, Ryzen 7 9700X with 8 cores and Ryzen five 9600X with six cores. There aren’t anyt any adjustments to AMD`s Simultaneous Multitasking, so every center presents threads.

The cache amounts, as you may see above are much like Ryzen 7000 too, with those being the mixed L2 an L3 cache amounts. So far, there may be no point out of pricing or an real release date, aside from July. According to AMD, the progressed overall performance comes from progressed department prediction, better throughput with wider pipelines and vectors plus deeper window length throughout layout for greater parallelism. This effects in as much as two times the coaching bandwidth, statistics bandwidth and additionally AI overall performance.

The new X870 and the first two are features currently supported on all X870E/X870 chipset motherboards, namely USB 4 and PCIe Gen 5 support for graphics, and at least one M.2 NVMe SSD slot. This should make things clearer, as there are quite a few X670 chipset motherboards that do not support PCIe Gen 5 SSDs. Additionally, faster memory speeds are also supported on these chipset motherboards, thanks to the memory EXPO profile.

Big Surprise: Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT for Socket AM4

As rumored, AMD also announced two new Ryzen 5000 CPUs that support the older Socket AM4. The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16-core CPU, rather than a 12-core CPU like the Ryzen 9 5900X, but unlike the Ryzen 9 5950X, which also has 16 cores and was released in 2020, it has a slightly lower boost frequency – 4.8GHz compared to 4.9GHz – but it has more cache and cores than the Ryzen 9 5900X.

Meanwhile, the Ryzen 7 5800XT retains the usual 8 cores of a Ryzen 7 CPU, but gets an additional 100 MHz peak boost frequency. These are interesting additions for those looking for an upgrade path if they’re using pre-Ryzen 3000 processors and aren’t quite ready to move to Socket AM5 yet. These are also due to launch in July, but again, pricing is yet to be determined.