It's been less than two years since the Zen 4 CPU architecture was launched but progress waits for nobody; today at the Computex 2024 event AMD announced its new Zen 5 design. The new Ryzen 9000 series of desktop processors will ship in July with an average IPC uplift of 16% compared to their predecessors.
At first glance, Zen 5 doesn't seem to be much different to Zen 4. The compute chiplets (CCDs, Core Complex Dies) still have eight cores, all sharing 32MB of L3 cache. The top-end Ryzen models still sport two CCDs, so you won't be getting more than 16 cores and 32 threads in a standard gaming PC. Even the clock speeds haven't increased in this new generation.
