AMD unveils new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 processors, including ‘World’s Best Gaming CPU’

AMD has just announced a new lineup of its Ryzen 5000 series of desktop processors, which is also the first chipset from the company set to feature the next generation of Zen 3 and marks AMD’s biggest leap for desktop chips to date.

AMD is also setting high expectations, promising that the new Ryzen 5900X is nothing short of “the world’s best gaming CPU”. The new chips will be available starting at $ 299 for the entry-level Ryzen 5 5600X on November 5th.

Like last year’s Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 desktop chips, these new models replace them, the new 5000 Series processors still use the 7nm AMD process but offer a 19 percent increase in instruction per cycle, along with a complete redesign of the chip layout and the highest maximum Boost speed. (The new chipset goes directly to the branding of the Ryzen 5000 series to avoid any confusion between the new Zen 3 chips with the Zen 2-based Ryzen 4000 desktop chips that AMD released over the summer for pre-built systems.)

Taken together, AMD says that simply replacing the Zen 2 CPU with a comparable Zen 3 model – new chips are compatible with old motherboards after a firmware update – will result in an improvement of an average of 26 percent for customers, all while keeping TDP and core numbers the same. .

AMD starts with 4 new Zen 3 CPUs. There’s the best-in-class Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores and 32 indicators and a maximum boost speed of 4.9GHz for $ 799; Ryzen 9 5900X, $ 549, with 12 cores, 32 threads, and a maximum boost speed of 4.8GHz; $ 449 for the Ryzen 7 5800X, with eight cores, 16 threads, and a maximum speed of 4.7GHz boost; And Ryzen 5 5600X, $ 299, with six cores, 12 threads, and a maximum boost speed of 4.6GHz.

Notably, each of these chips received a $ 50 price increase over the original prices of similar Zen 2 CPUs from 2019. All four new CPUs will be available from November 5th.

AMD is taking a direct shot at Intel with its new lineup, in particular the company’s Core i9-10900K model, which Intel previously boasted of as the “world’s fastest gaming processor”. While AMD chips don’t beat Intel 10th Gen chips at absolute clock speed – the top of the Intel chipset maxes out at 5.3GHz, while the Ryzen 5950X (AMD’s fastest new chip) outperforms 4.9GHz – AMD delivers Other benefits, such as improved energy efficiency and increased core and filament count.

The company also cites benchmarks, claiming that the Ryzen 9 5900X managed to beat the Intel i9-10900K in live performance for a wide range of titles, including League of LegendsAnd the Dota 2And the Tomb shadow Ryder, And more. (Intel chip still wins Battlefield V, And we have to wait and see how the third-party metrics rank things before making any real judgments here.)

Of course, the new CPU needs a new GPU to go along with it, and AMD has also taken the time to start teasing the upcoming Radeon RX 6000 “Big Navi” graphics cards based on the next-generation RDNA 2 architecture that the entire company will be announcing on October 28th. The new cards are supposed to be AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs, and the company promises it will also be able to drive high-end 4K gaming, and drive over 60 fps benchmarks. Borderlands 3And the Call of Duty: Modern WarfareAnd and Gears 5 In super settings.

AMD won’t have much time to rest on its laurels, though: Intel is already preparing for its response, and is already teasing out 11th-generation Rocket Lake processors in early 2021.