From PC Mag: At Computex 2024, AMD laid out the plan for its next-generation Ryzen 9000-series processors based on its new Zen 5 microarchitecture, which are almost ready to slot into desktops. These new CPUs are slated for introduction this July and will ship alongside an updated AM5 platform. (Two new CPUs for the aging AM4 platform will also land then.) These new components come with impressive performance claims and upgraded features, but it remains to be seen if they can stand up against Intel’s upcoming "Arrow Lake" desktop chips.
AMD’s new Ryzen 9000-series processors are codenamed “Granite Ridge,” with key changes in the design, including up to a twofold increase in instruction bandwidth for front-end instructions. The data bandwidth between the L2 and L1 caches also increased by up to double that of Zen 4, and the bandwidth between the L1 cache and floating point unit has increased by a similar amount. You'll also enjoy a 2x increase in AI performance and AVX-512 vector extension throughput.
AMD will launch four new chips in July: the Ryzen 9 9950X, the Ryzen 9 9900X, the Ryzen 7 9700X, and the Ryzen 5 9600X. The Ryzen 9 9950X closely matches the last-gen AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, with both chips having 16 CPU cores, 32 threads, 16MB of L2 cache, and 64MB of L3 cache. Both are set with a max boost clock of 5.7GHz. They also share the same 170-watt (W) thermal design power (TDP).
AMD has two new chipsets to support the Ryzen 9000 processor line. Skipping past the potential 700-series of chipsets, AMD has instead introduced the 800 series with the AMD X870 and the AMD X870E chipsets.
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