Like , at a just-concluded online presentation, AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 series processors belonging to the Zen 3 generation. As the company promises, this time it managed to make an even greater leap in performance than with the release of previous generations of Ryzen. Thanks to this, new items should become the fastest solutions on the market, not only in computing tasks, but also in games - at least AMD itself promises so.
The Ryzen 5000 processor lineup with which the company is entering the market includes four models: the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X, the 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X, the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X, and the 6-core Ryzen 5 5600X. All these processors will go on sale on November 5th. Full specifications are presented in the table:
| Model | Cores/threads | TDP, W | Frequency, GHz | L3 cache, MB | Complete cooler | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 5950X | 16/32 | 105 | 3,4-4,9 | 64 | No | $799 |
| Ryzen 9 5900X | 12/24 | 105 | 3,7-4,8 | 64 | No | $549 |
| Ryzen 7 5800X | 8/16 | 105 | 3,8-4,7 | 32 | No | $449 |
| Ryzen 5 5600X | 6/12 | 65 | 3,7-4,6 | 32 | Wraith Stealth | $299 |
In the characteristics of new products attract attention to two things. Firstly, despite the use of the next version of TSMC's 5000nm process technology in the production of Ryzen 7, the clock speeds remained almost the same as those of the previous generation processors. In fact, AMD was able to raise only the maximum frequencies in turbo mode for 12- and 16-core processors due to regular optimizations of Precision Boost technology. The base frequencies of all new products, on the contrary, even decreased.
Secondly, at the same time, AMD did not hesitate to increase the official prices of the Ryzen 5000. Representatives of the Ryzen 3000 family with the same number of cores cost $50 less at the time of their announcement.
However, AMD considered itself entitled to do so due to the fact that processors based on the Zen 3 architecture have become much faster than their predecessors. According to the presentation, the 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X is an impressive 26% faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT in games, and the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X can be called the processor with the highest single-threaded and multi-threaded performance among all mainstream offerings.
Moreover, according to AMD, gaming performance is no longer a weak point compared to Intel processors. About the same Ryzen 9 5900X, the company says that it is on average 7% ahead of the Core i9-10900K in games at 1080p resolution.
Such significant progress is explained by significant changes at the level of internal structure: unified CCX modules now consist of eight cores and include 32 MB of L3 cache. This reduces core-cache communication latency and doubles the L3 addressable cache per core.
This, together with microarchitectural improvements to the Zen 3 cores, produced an impressive 19% increase in instructions per clock (IPC), according to internal tests.
As Saeid Moshkelani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Customer Business at AMD, commented, “The new AMD Ryzen 5000-series desktop processors reinforce our leadership from instructions per clock and power efficiency to single-core and multi-core performance, including in games.
Ryzen 5000 series processors can work in motherboards with 500 series chipsets after a simple BIOS update with versions based on AGESA 1.1.0.0 (coming soon). Support for boards based on 400-series processors is under development, and the first Ryzen 5000-compatible beta BIOSes for these boards will be released in January 2021.
The processors announced today are expected to go on sale worldwide on November 5, 2020. However, customers who purchase a Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, or Ryzen 7 5800X between November 5, 2020 and December 31, 2020 will receive a free copy of Far Cry 6 when it launches.
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Source: 3dnews.ru