Hardware detective HXL @9550pro on X reports that AMD has officially announced several brand-new Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs in China. The new CPUs are comprised of a new "Ryzen 5000 XT" refresh and a pair of new purportedly iGPU-less Ryzen 8000-series parts, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F. A release date was not announced, but due to the Chinese locality of this announcement, it seems like most (if not all) of these CPUs could be exclusive to the Asian market.
According to the AMD slide shown off by HXL on X, AMD aims to "attack every price point" with these new chips. As a result, we can expect the Ryzen 5000 XT lineup to target prices that its outgoing AM4 chips don't currently cover. The same is true of the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F, but these chips will be targeting AMD's newer AM5 platform instead.
If AMD repeats history, this new Ryzen 5000 XT refresh won't be impressive. The last time AMD did this with its Ryzen 3000 XT debut, the "XT" versions had a measly 100-200MHz higher clock speed than their vanilla "X" CPU counterparts. This minor change made their performance almost indistinguishable, and the higher price tags on the XT chips made them a poor purchasing choice. But as the saying goes, there are no bad products, only bad prices, and we don't know how much AMD plans to charge for the 5000 XT parts — we're not even sure how many new XT CPUs will become available.
Ryzen 7 8700F Ryzen 5 8400F China only?🤔Source：QQ pic.twitter.com/l818lS6IFmMarch 22, 2024
