AMD has just announced its next-gen Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, which will be officially released in July 2024. In addition, the red team shared some first-party gaming benchmarks, so let’s take a look at them.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU will be the high-end CPU model, featuring two Zen 5 CCDs and a single IOD. The CPU will have 16 cores, 32 threads, and a max boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz. It will also come with 80MB of cache and will have a TDP of 170W.
The next Zen 5 CPU is the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X. This CPU has 12 cores and 24 threads. Its max boost clock will be at 5.6Ghz. It will also come with 76MB of cache and will have a TDP of 120W.
The third Zen5 CPU is the Ryzen 7 9700X. This CPU will have 8 cores and will support 16 threads, with a max boost clock of up to 5.5 GHz. It will also have 40MB of cache and a TDP of 65W.
Finally, we have the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU which will feature 6 cores and 12 threads. This CPU will have a max boost clock of up to 5.40 GHz and will come with 38MB of cache and it will have 65W TDP.
AMD has also shared some Zen 5 core architecture improvements. These new CPUs will come with improved branch prediction accuracy and latency, higher throughput with wider pipelines and vectors and deeper window size across the design for more parallelism.
When it comes to gaming performance, AMD claims that the high-end Ryzen 9 9950X will be between 4% and 23% faster than the Intel Core i9 14900K. So, if you already own a high-end CPU, you can safely skip this generation. From what we can see, we can’t expect major performance improvements.
AMD will officially release its Zen5 CPUs in July 2024!
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yeah i will either wait for zen 6 or 9800x3D
An Intel 14900K has the same performance (according to benchmarks done by tech reviewers) as a 13900K, which makes sense as they are the exact same chip and the only difference is the transistor size is slightly smaller in the 14900K (which nets no benefits without architectural changes and increases in transistor count to take advantage of the space savings due to the smaller transistors). When AMD says their 9950X performs roughly 4% to 23% better in gaming than a 14900K, they're saying the same for the 13900K since they're the same chip, and the 7800X3D is already pulling better numbers than that in most games…
Personally I think AMD is focusing way too much on branch prediction. We don't need a bunch of new speculative execution related security vulnerabilities on AMD chips that require performance degrading patches. Their CPU's may have been less severely impacted by that than Intel CPU's in the past, but that's no reason to tempt fate by implementing more of these sort of potentially dangerous features.
You should focus on speculative execution, since branch prediction is just a part of it.
And if you completely disable speculative execution on a modern CPU, you will lose more than 90 % of its original performance, so that is out of the question.
CPU's already have these features. Why can't the manufacturers just stop adding new ones? Each time AMD does that a new vulnerability is discovered in them. When are they going to learn their lesson?
The 7800x3d looks more n more attractive compated to the comming lineup.
Lets see what intel has in store.
I think it's really cool they've come out and made the announcement on the life span of am5. It gives people that assurance to know whether or not to upgrade, wait or jump ship accordingly with the life span of their rig. I currently have a 7700X and planned to upgrade to the 2rd gen X3D of whatever 8 or 16 core CPU they had on am5 but now I might be able to hold out till 3rd or 4th gen.
better wait for the X3D versions..
i went from i7 8700k to a R7 7800X3D and im the most happiest person in the world i was blown away with its performance.
I just upgraded from an i7 3770K to a 7800X3D, so obviously the difference is even greater for me, but if I had the 8700K I would probably still wait to upgrade. I'm curious what games are running with performance issues (dips below 60fps or stuttering) on 8700K that made you want to upgrade?
I also want to upgrade my GPU (GTX1080), but it's a tough decision because the RTX5080 will be released in Q4, so I would probably regret getting the RTX4080S now. Will see if I can wait that long, becasue even the RTX4080S would be a massive upgrade for me and I could finaly play games with RT.
I'm gonna wait for X3D variants and then upgrade next year maybe.