Today at the opening of Computex 2019, AMD introduced the long-awaited 7rd generation 2nm Ryzen processors (Matisse). The lineup of new products based on the Zen 200 microarchitecture includes five processor models, ranging from $5 and six-core Ryzen 500 to $9 Ryzen 7 chips with twelve processing cores. Sales of new products, as expected earlier, will begin on July 570 this year. Together with them, motherboards based on the XXNUMX logic set will have to come to the market.
The release of the Ryzen 3000 processors, based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture, seems to be a truly tectonic shift in the PC market. Judging by the information presented by AMD today at the presentation, the company intends to seize the lead and become the manufacturer of the most technologically advanced processors for mainstream systems. In many ways, this should be facilitated by the new 7nm TSMC process technology, which is used in the manufacture of the third generation Ryzen. Thanks to him, AMD was able to solve two important problems: to seriously reduce the power consumption of high-performance chips, and also to make them affordable.
A significant contribution to the success of the new Ryzen should be made by the new Zen 2 microarchitecture. According to AMD's promises, the increase in IPC (performance per clock) compared to Zen + was 15%, while new processors will be able to work at higher frequencies. Also among the benefits of Zen 2 there is a significant increase in the amount of cache memory in the third level and a twofold improvement in the performance of the real number operations unit (FPU).
Along with the microarchitecture improvements, AMD also offers a new X570 platform, which should provide support for PCI Express 4.0, a bus with twice the bandwidth. Older Socket AM4 motherboards will receive support for the new processors via BIOS updates, but PCI Express 4.0 support will be limited.
However, it seems that AMD's main weapon at this stage will still be pricing. The company is going to adhere to a very aggressive pricing policy, which is absolutely at odds with what Intel has taught us to do. It is likely that the 7nm process and the use of chiplets allowed AMD to significantly win in the cost of products, due to which competition in the processor market will intensify with unprecedented force.
| Kernels / threads | Base frequency, GHz | Turbo frequency, GHz | L2 cache, MB | L3 cache, MB | TDP, W | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 3900X | 12/24 | 3,8 | 4,6 | 6 | 64 | 105 | $499 |
| Ryzen 7 3800X | 8/16 | 3,9 | 4,5 | 4 | 32 | 105 | $399 |
| Ryzen 7 3700X | 8/16 | 3,6 | 4,4 | 4 | 32 | 65 | $329 |
| Ryzen 5 3600X | 6/12 | 3,8 | 4,4 | 3 | 32 | 95 | $249 |
| Ryzen 5 3600 | 6/12 | 3,6 | 4,2 | 3 | 32 | 65 | $199 |
The top processor in the third-generation Ryzen lineup, which AMD announced today, is the Ryzen 9 3900X. This is a processor based on two 7nm chipsets, which the company is going to oppose to the Intel Core i9 series. At the same time, neither the competitor nor AMD itself has any alternatives to this chip with similar characteristics, because this is the first mass CPU in history with 12 cores and 24 threads. The chip has a TDP of 105W, a very competitive price of $499, and frequencies of 3,8-4,6GHz. The total amount of cache memory of such a monster will be 70 MB, while the L3 cache accounts for 64 MB.
The Ryzen 7 series includes two octa-core and 7-thread processors built using a single 7nm chiplet. The Ryzen 3800 105X has a 3,9W TDP and 4,5-399GHz TDP for $7, while the slightly slower Ryzen 3700 3,6X has a TDP of 4,4-65GHz, 329W TDP and is priced at $32 . The third-level cache of both eight-cores has a volume of XNUMX MB.
The Ryzen 5 series includes two processors with six cores and twelve threads. The older model, the Ryzen 5 3600X, received frequencies of 3,8-4,4 GHz and a thermal package of 95 W, while the frequencies of the younger model Ryzen 5 3600 are 3,6-4,2 GHz, which will allow it to fit within the framework of a thermal package of 65 W . The prices of such processors will be $249 and $199 respectively.
At the presentation, AMD paid a lot of attention to the performance of its new products. So, the company claims that its new 12-core flagship Ryzen 9 3900X is 60% faster than the Core i9-9900K in the multi-threaded Cinebench R20 test, and 1% faster than the Intel alternative in the single-threaded test. However, given the increased number of cores, this ratio of results is quite logical.
However, AMD also said that the Ryzen 9 3900X is able to outperform the competitor's $12 9-core HEDT processor, the Core i9920-1200X. AMD's offering has a 20% advantage in multi-threaded Cinebench R6 and 14% in single-threaded.
The new Ryzen 9 9920X also demonstrated a convincing advantage over the Core i9-3900X in Blender.
When talking about the performance of the octa-core Ryzen 7 3800X, AMD has focused on gaming performance, and it's really impressive. According to the benchmarks AMD conducted with the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card, the frame rate improvement in popular games compared to the previous older octa-core Ryzen 7 2700X ranges from 11 to 34%.
It seems that this may allow AMD chips to perform as well as Intel processors in gaming loads. At least when the Ryzen 7 3800X was demonstrated in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, this processor showed a comparable frame rate to the Core i9-9900K.
Along the way, AMD also boasted of the high performance of its eight-core processors in Cinebench R20. In the multi-threaded test, the Ryzen 7 3800X was able to outperform the Core i9-9900K by 2%, and in the single-threaded test by 1%.
If the Ryzen 7 3700X is compared with the Core i7-9700K, then the advantage in multi-threaded performance will be 28%. At the same time, we recall that the typical heat dissipation of the Ryzen 7 3700X is 65 watts, while the Intel processors with which we are comparing refer to the 105-watt thermal package. The faster Ryzen 7 3800X model with a TDP of 105 W is expected to outperform the Core i7-9700K even more - by 37% in the multi-threaded test.
Ultimately, the introduction of AMD chips caused a noticeable revival in the ranks of enthusiasts. However, it is worth noting that many details are still unclear. Unfortunately, the company did not explain where such a significant jump in performance comes from. We know that Zen 2 has improved branch predictor, instruction prefetching, optimized instruction cache, increased throughput and latency of the Infinity Fabric bus, and changes to the data cache structure. In addition, details regarding the overclocking potential are not clear, about which there are no details at all yet. We hope that more specific details will become clear closer to the announcement.
“To be a technology leader, you have to bet big,” said Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, in her speech at the opening of Computex 2019. And the bet that the red company made today will be outbid by Intel is unlikely to succeed.
Source: 3dnews.ru