It didn’t seem long since AMD last made an announcement for their new desktop processors. Now at COMPUTEX 2024, AMD takes the center stage again to introduce their latest consumer desktop processors which will power computers in the future.
AMD announced their latest Ryzen 9000 series consumer desktop processors, which are based on the new Zen 5 architecture. Unlike the past, where AMD introduces an incremental improvement to the latest architecture and will just add an “+” behind its previous generation’s nomenclature, AMD claims that the new Zen 5 is a totally improved architecture that brings about significant performance improvements.
Zen 5 builds up on the success of Zen 4 with further improvements. It is designed to provide an improved branch prediction accuracy and latency. This generally uplifts the instructions per clock (IPC) of the processor. Moreover, with a higher throughput with wider pipeline and vectors, as well as deeper window size across its design for parallelism, Zen 5 is made to outperform any competing products in the market now.
On average, the new Zen 5 architecture has an 16% IPC improvement over its predecessor. It’s a significant improvement, considering that it has only been less than two years since the launch of the Zen 4 products.
Similar to the past, AMD has introduced 4 new Ryzen 9000 series products for the launch. They are the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X. What’s interesting is that the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 is now a 65W part, down from the previous generation’s 105W.
Based on comparison of performance results between the Ryzen 9 9950X and the Intel Core i9 14900K, the Ryzen 9 9950X performs better across all the games and benchmarks, as tested by AMD.
Also, with its improved architecture, AMD processors are able to more effectively utilize both storage and graphics resources on the CPU by running at their intended full bandwidth. Competing products halves the bandwidth of both storage and graphics resources on the CPU when they are used simultaneously. The Ryzen 9000 series also excels in AI workloads.
The Ryzen 9000 series will continue running on AMD’s AM5 platform, which has just been extended to 2027 and beyond. You can be sure than your motherboard will not go out of date, as future processors will still be able to run on older AM5 motherboards.
Talking about motherboards, AMD has also released the X870 and X870E chipset alongside with the Ryzen 9000 series processors. The new chipsets brings USB 4.0 and PCIe Gen 5 to the table. The motherboards equipped with the new chipsets will also be able to support higher memory clocks on them with AMD EXPO.
The Ryzen 9000 series processors will be available from July 2024 onwards.
