The new ones processors from AMD promise the best performance thanks to the Zen 5 architecture… but perhaps not in all areas.
At Computex 2024, AMD created a surprise by presenting and announcing the marketing date of its new generation of desktop processors, the Ryzen 9000 in the “X” range.
Having passed the element of surprise, the question now arises of the real performance of the Zen 5 architecture on the one hand, and of the Ryzen 9000X more generally. Things seem likely to be complex.
Significant gains for the Ryzen 9000X…
During the presentation of the Ryzen 9000X, Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, did not really go into detail about the Zen 5 architecture and the progress that we can expect compared to Zen 4 .
There was thus talk of an improvement in the number of instructions per cycle (+16% on average vs Zen 4), but with the progress recorded on Geekbench (+34%), this average is perhaps a little biased. In addition, AMD has been evasive about the technological contributions of its new architecture, essentially insisting on better branch prediction, a doubling of L2 to L1 bandwidth and AI calculation capabilities with the AVX-512.
Another point that can confuse the issue, very quickly, the rumor of an “anticipated” launch of Ryzen 9000X3D processors spread. AMD would have the idea of offering these processors from September 2024.
… but not enough to beat the 7800X3D in video games
These 3 months would constitute the shortest period of time between the “X” ranges and the “X3D” ranges, after 17 months on the 5000 generation and 7 months on the 7000 generation.
The explanation for this short time could have been given to us by Donny Waligroski, technical marketing manager at AMD. To a question from our colleagues at Tom’s Hardwarethe latter replied: “ Is it the fastest for video games? It’s faster than the competition in our tests. X3D remains king of the hill, but by a much smaller margin than we typically see between X3D and non-X3D. »
Don Waligroski adds: “ So a 7800X3D would, yes, be faster than the 9700X, but perhaps not as much as one might expect. » By launching the Ryzen 9000X in July, then the Ryzen 9000X3D in September, AMD would then do a double take to gain the advantage on all fronts, even before Intel can release Arrow Lake, whose release is scheduled for October.
Source : Tom’s Hardware
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