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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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 |