THE processors Zen 5 should be presented by AMD in less than a month: a good kick in the anthill is being prepared?
In a few days, a few weeks at most, AMD will present in the most official way possible its new CPU architecture intended to replace Zen 4, launched in September 2022.
Logically called Zen 5, this architecture must further improve the number of instructions per cycle (IPC), one of the measures used to evaluate processor performance.
Zen 5 much more efficient than Zen 4
This increase in the number of IPCs is a promise from AMD which, on this point, clearly stands out from Intel. Indeed, each generation of Zen will have been an opportunity to increase the IPC while Intel seems a little stuck.
Last March, we had a first glimpse of the expected performance for Zen 5 thanks to information from Kepler_L2. The latter explained that on a single-core performance test, the Zen 5 core was 40% faster than a Zen 4 core. The test in question was none other than the SPEC bench, widely used in industry.
Problem is, we had little details on the test conditions and we did not know, for example, whether these 40% were a maximum difference or an average difference between the Zen 5 core and its Zen 5 counterpart.
A clear difference observed on Blender
Today, it is more precise information that relays VideoCardz with performance measurements on Blender software. This time we are talking about Zen 5 integrated into a Strix Point chip, an APU designed for laptops.
This is not a final chip, however, but an engineering sample stamped “ 100-000000994-38 ” referred. It is compared to a Ryzen 7 7700X, a desktop PC chip. When the latter is limited to a score of 269.92, the Strix Point Zen 5 reaches 270.92, also overflowing with the Ryzen 9 3900X (267.89) and Ryzen 7 7800X3D (266.77) chips.
Why this precision on other outdated CPUs? Because the Strix Point Zen 5 has 12 cores while the Ryzen 7 7700X only has 8 Zen 4 cores. The Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores (but Zen 2) and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 Zen 4 cores. Finally, note that we have no information about the frequencies or the power allocated to the CPU.
The processors codenamed Strix Point will be officially presented by AMD during Computex 2024 – at the beginning of June in Taiwan – and renamed Ryzen AI 100 series.
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The reception of the Ryzen 7 7700X convinced us of the qualities of the Zen 4 architecture. As is often said, the Ryzen 9 7950X is there to drive the point home, to pass the second layer. Powerful in all areas, practically leader in each of our tests, the most efficient of AMD’s new processors suffers mainly from two faults: a pronounced tendency to overheat and a memory subsystem that is a little behind.
Nothing that is really detrimental to it and this Ryzen 9 7950X clearly stands out as a monster prepared for all eventualities. A monster certainly, but one that doesn’t sacrifice everything on the altar of performance. Certainly, it heats up a lot, but it is also – and by far – the most efficient of the processors tested in terms of energy. Limited to 125 Watts of power, it even pulverizes any of our competitors.
To make matters worse, AMD is not taking the opportunity to raise prices and the launch price is even lower than that of the Ryzen 9 5950X! Finally, it is impossible not to say a word about the progress of the AM5 platform: more modern, more complete, it suffers on the other hand from a price positioning, partly linked to DDR5, which is a little more questionable.
The reception of the Ryzen 7 7700X convinced us of the qualities of the Zen 4 architecture. As is often said, the Ryzen 9 7950X is there to drive the point home, to pass the second layer. Powerful in all areas, practically leader in each of our tests, the most efficient of AMD’s new processors suffers mainly from two faults: a pronounced tendency to overheat and a memory subsystem that is a little behind.
Nothing that is really detrimental to it and this Ryzen 9 7950X clearly stands out as a monster prepared for all eventualities. A monster certainly, but one that doesn’t sacrifice everything on the altar of performance. Certainly, it heats up a lot, but it is also – and by far – the most efficient of the processors tested in terms of energy. Limited to 125 Watts of power, it even pulverizes any of our competitors.
To make matters worse, AMD is not taking the opportunity to raise prices and the launch price is even lower than that of the Ryzen 9 5950X! Finally, it is impossible not to say a word about the progress of the AM5 platform: more modern, more complete, it suffers on the other hand from a price positioning, partly linked to DDR5, which is a little more questionable.
Source : VideoCardz
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