AMD ripped the covers off four new 4nm Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors in the Ryzen 9, 7, and 5 families today at Computex 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan, touting that the new Zen 5 architecture will deliver a 16% increase in instructions per cycle (IPC) throughput when the chips come to market in July. Coupled with other improvements, AMD claims the new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X outperforms Intel’s competing Raptor Lake Refresh flagship by an average of 11% in gaming and 21% in productivity workloads, but these will eventually face off with Intel’s Arrow Lake. The chips also feature doubled performance in AI and AVX-512 workloads.
The new Zen 5 chips span from the 6-core 12-thread Ryen 5 9600X to the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X and come with the same core counts as their predecessors, but most models also come with a lower TDP (30% to 40% reduction) while still delivering higher performance than the prior-gen models due to the revamped Zen 5 architecture and a new TSMC 4nm process node. The new Zen 5 chips drop into the AM5 socket, which AMD now says it will support until 2027+, and the company unveiled new X870/X870E chipsets that increase USB 4.0 connectivity and extend PCIe 5.0 support to both chipsets.
