AMD has a couple of announcements at COMPUTEX 2024, and the Ryzen 9000 series is among its major announcements. These new batch of processors make use of AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, which AMD claims offers up to twice the overall performance compared to Zen 4.
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To illustrate this, AMD presented a graph, where they claim that Zen 5 offers an average of a 16% instructions per clock (IPC) uplift compared to Zen4, with the biggest gaines seen with GeekBench 5.4, Blender, and League of Legends.
Leading the Ryzen 9000 series is the Ryzen 9 9950X, which has 16 cores, 32 threads and up to a 5.7Ghz boosted clock speed. It also comes with a 170w TDP, along with a total of 80MB L2+L3 cache. AMD’s new processor is meant to compete with Intel’s Core i9-14900K, where AMD claims as much as 23% better performance with Horizon Zero Dawn and as much as 56% better performance with Blender.
The rest of the Ryzen 9000 series lineup consist of the Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X. All of them will make use of the AM5 socket that was introduced in 2022, with AMD announcing new X870/870E chipsets that offer USB 4.0. and PCIe 5.0 connectivity across all motherboards, along with higher AMD EXPO memory clock support.
All Ryzen 9000 series processors are expected to arrive this July, and expect AMD to reveal pricing details by then.
