The announcement of the new Ryzen 5000 processors, built on AMD’s Zen 3 microarchitecture, has caused waves of excitement and questions as to the performance. The launch of the high-performance desktop processors on November 5th will be an interesting day. In advance of those disclosures, we sat down with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s positioning, performance, and outlook.
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Being the flagship of the Zen 3 family, the Ryzen 9 5950X is nothing short of impressive. The 7nm chip features a 16-core, 32-thread configuration with 64MB of L3 cache, a 3.4 GHz base clock and boost up to 4.9 GHz. At first glance, the Ryzen 9 5950X doesn’t look too different when compared to the current Ryzen 9 3950X.
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“To clarify, Asus will follow AMD’s support plan to release a new BIOS on X470, B450 and B450 II motherboards and all those available in the market at present will also be compatible with that BIOS upgrade. Beta BIOS support, following AMD guidelines and timelines means this will be ready to roll out around Jan 2021,” Asus added.
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The time has arrived, and today AMD officially announced the 5000 Series. The new line tops off with the 16 core, 32 thread Ryzen 9 5950X. AMD is claiming the best single core performance, best gaming performance and more. A key announcement was a geomean +19% gain in IPC. That’s a substantial gain for a generational upgrade relative to recent history. We’ll need to wait roughly another month for more number, but these chips look promising. Only the Ryzen 5 5600X will come bundled with a cooler, but let’s be honest, if you’re picking up a high end chip you’re likely to pair it up with high end cooling anyway.
| Processor | Cores | Clock | Turbo | L3 Cache | TDP | MSRP |
| Ryzen 9 5950X | 16 | 3.4 GHz | 4.9 GHz | 64 MB | 105 W | $799 |
| Ryzen 9 5900X | 12 | 3.7 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 64 MB | 105 W | $549 |
| Ryzen 7 5800X | 8 | 3.8 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 32 MB | 105 W | $449 |
| Ryzen 5 5600X | 6 | 3.7 GHz | 4.6 GHz | 32 MB | 65 W | $299 |
The Ryzen 7 5800X’s lineage is currently a mystery to be solved. On one end, the chip could belong to AMD’s upcoming Zen 3 (codename Vermeer) family, which the chipmaker will present on October 4. If that’s the case, it would appear that AMD might finally integrate both processors and APUs under the same series. The chipmaker’s mainstream processors and APUs are currently sporting the Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 4000 monikers.
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Today, we’ll be taking an exclusive look at the super rare and highly sought-after AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G (Renoir) processor. According to AMD, the Ryzen PRO series of CPUs provide PRO technologies which includes layers of security features, seamless manageability, and reliable longevity.
This particular chip is based on AMD’s Renoir core (Zen 2), and features 8-cores/16-threads and operates on a base frequency of 3.6 GHz with a max boost speed of 4.4 GHz. It comes with 4MB of L2 cache and a total 8MB of L3 cache. It also comes with onboard Radeon graphics with 8 GPU cores running at 2100 MHz.
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September is the calm time before we soon hit into Zen 3 season. AMD has announced that it will hold an event on October 8th regarding the new Ryzen processors, however exactly what form this event will take (announcement? launch?) is unclear at this time. If you are ready to put some hard earned greenbacks down on one of these new processors, then perhaps come back later when we’ve tested the hardware.
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AMD’s Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G “Renoir” desktop APU brings eight Zen 2 cores and 16 threads paired with a reworked Radeon RX Vega graphics engine to the mainstream desktop, breaking the old ceiling of four cores and eight threads found with the company’s previous-gen “Picasso” APUs. AMD claims the new 7nm chips offer up to a 25% increase in single-threaded performance and up to a 2.5X increase in multi-threaded applications over the prior-gen Picasso APUs.
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A quick glance at the spec sheet shows most of the key specifications remain unchanged, with the most substantial change being that the 12-core 3900XT comes with a 100 MHz higher boost, the 8-core Ryzen 7 3800X gains 200 MHz, and the 6-core Ryzen 5 3600XT gains 100 MHz.
Due to refinements to the 7nm node, AMD says it improved boost frequencies by 2-4%, but it also improved boost residency, or how long the processor remains at its boost frequency, by up to 80%.
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With six cores and twelve threads, the comparative Intel options vary between something like the Core i7-9600KF with six cores and no hyperthreading, or to the i7-9700KF with eight cores and no hyperthreading. The downside is that both of these processors are more expensive: where the Ryzen 5 3600 is $199, the i5-9600KF is $263 and the i7-9700KF is $385.
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