AMD unveiled its latest lineup of processors at Computex 2024 this week, with the AMD Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors leading the pack. The AMD Ryzen 9000-series is the follow up to AMD's 7000-series processors released back in 2022, and feature about 15% faster performance over their comparable predecessor chips, according to AMD. The 9000-series is built using the next-gen AMD Zen 5 architecture, a major step up from the Zen 4 cores used in the Ryzen 7000-series.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9000-series will get up to twice as much instruction bandwidth, L2 to L1 and L1 to FP data bandwisth, and improved AI performance thanks to AI and AVX512 throughput. Across various apps from gaming to creative content work, the new Zen 5 chips should get about 16% IPC uplift over Zen 4, which translates directly into faster, more responsive performance on your PC. The launch lineup for the Ryzen 9000 series will include the following chips with general specs given per chip: Noticeably absent are any 3D V-Cache variants, as well as a Ryzen 9800X, though these chips are surely planned for later this year or early next.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9000 series processors will be available starting in July 2024, though pricing for the processors is still unknown at this time. Also of note is that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a roughly 50W lower TDP than the Ryzen 9 7900X, so there have also been some efficiency improvements, which are always a plus. While the new Zen 5 cores might be tricked ou.