AMD announces 4th gen ZEN 3 based Ryzen 5000 series CPUs!

AMD has announced its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 series CPU for desktop which will be based on their new ZEN 3 Microarchitecture.

AMD has said that these ZEN 3 CPU will represent the biggest leap in AMD's desktop CPUs. AMD is also setting expectations high, promising that the ZEN 3 Ryzen 9 5900X is going to be the best gaming CPU.

In specifications, the Ryzen 5000 CPU are using the same AMD's 7nm process but offer a 19 percent increase in instructions per cycle, along with a complete redesign of the chip layout and a higher max boost speed.

The first ZEN 3 CPUs which will start selling the earliest would be Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 5 5600X.

The most powerful CPU of this line-up, the Ryzen 9 5950X model with 16 cores and 32 threads will cost $799, the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores and 32 threads will be for $549, The Ryzen 7 5800X with 8 cores and 16 threads for  $449 and the cheapest Ryzen 5 5600X, with 6 cores 12 threads for $229. All four new CPUs will be available starting on November 5th. Other ZEN 3 CPUs would be launched soon after these are launched. Also the non X CPUs will be coming later too. 

MODEL	CORES/ THREADS	TDP (Watts)	BOOST9/BASE FREQ. (GHz)	TOTAL CACHE	COOLER	SEP (USD)	EXPECTED AVAILABILITY
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X	16C/32T	105W	Up to 4.9 / 3.4	72MB	N/A	$799	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X	12C/24T	105W	Up to 4.8 / 3.7	70MB	N/A	$549	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X	8C/16T	105W	Up to 4.7 / 3.8	36MB	N/A	$449	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X	6C/12T	65W	Up to 4.6 / 3.7	35MB	Wraith Stealth	$299	November 5, 2020

 

Ryzen 5000 Specifications

AMD has officially leaked the specifications of these new CPUs. There is no increase in Cache, Cores and TDP (except in Ryzen 5 5900X) as compared to ZEN 2 CPUs. There is increase in the CPU Frequency.

AMD also claims that the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X has "the highest single-thread performance of any desktop gaming processor" and the "most multi-core performance of any desktop gaming processor and any desktop processor in a mainstream CPU socket."

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The 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is on average "7% faster in 1080p gaming across select game titles than the slightly cheaper Core i9 10900K.

The new chips are compatible with older motherboards after a firmware update will result in an average 26 percent improvement for customers, all while keeping TDP and core counts the same.

AMD is targeting gaming as the bigger motive for these CPUs as Intel has been always ahead of AMD in gaming all this time. It is also shown that the Ryzen 9 5950X has surpassed the Core i9 10900K in gaming as shown in the Graph below.

The company also points to benchmarks, claiming that the Ryzen 9 5950X manages to beat Intel’s i9-10900K in head-to-head performance for a wide range of titles, including League of Legends, Dota 2 and all except Battlefield 5.

AMD suggests the new Zen 3 architecture provides 19% higher instructions per clock compared to the Zen 2 processors. The company also emphasised the substantial generational uplift for single-core performance, with the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 5900X both beating the Intel i9-10900K in the single-threaded Cinebench R20 benchmark test.