What you need to know
- AMD’s Ryzen 7000 is centered around performance.
- The chipset will be based on AMD’s new Zen 4 architecture and will utilize the new AM5 socket design.
AMD took the wraps off of its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000 processors at the “Together We Advance PCs” special event from Austin, TX, with company CEO Lisa Su headlining the announcement. According to the chip-maker, the Ryzen 7000 processors will succeed AMD’s current Ryzen 6000 family, which will usher in “a new era of performance for gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators,” new architecture based on AMD’s Zen 4 platform. The Ryzen 7000 chip series will compete later this year against rival Intel’s forthcoming 13th Gen processors, codenamed Raptor Lake.
“At AMD, we’re all about high performance and adaptive computing,” Su said, noting that the company wants to create products that help solve the world’s most challenging problems. The company will introduce four new architectures to the market over the span of the next several quarters, including new RDNA architecture for graphics, Zen 4C, and XDNA next-gen SoC.
“At AMD, we love the PC, and we especially love all of the PC gamers and enthusiasts,” she added in announcing the new Zen 4-powered Ryzen 7000 platform. “Today is all about the next-generation Ryzen processors.”
The company’s goal is to push the performance boundaries with efficiency.
The Ryzen 7000 is the first 5nm desktop CPU, and it has the new AM5 platform that supports DDR5 and PCIe 5.
With the Zen 4 architecture, AMD stated that the new platform gets a 13% IPC boost. The new processor is clocked at 5.7GHz, which leads to a 29% single-thread performance gain compared to the 5000 series.
Ryzen 9 7950X
The flagship Ryzen 9 7950X is “simply the best” CPU for gaming, AMD boasted. It also delivers up to 62% more compute performance for content creators. Compared to Intel’s Core i9-12900K 12th Gen CPU, AMD claimed that the Ryzen 9 7950X delivers 62% higher performance but achieves this at 47% better performance-per-watt, leading to more energy efficiency.
The company is also adding to the Ryzen 7000 series across all price points with additional chips.
Ryzen 7600 X
Compared to Intel’s 12th Gen Core i9-12900K, the Ryzen 7600K delivers consistently higher frames per second, leading to an 11% faster performance, AMD stated.
Powered by Zen 4
“Zen 4 continues our tradition of new CPU performance that delivers high performance right on schedule,” AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said in introducing the new architecture that powers the Ryzen 7000 series.
Compared to Zen 3, Zen 4 brings a 13% uplift in instructions per clock, a new front-end design, and AI acceleration with AVX-512, Papermaster added. The 13% IPC uplift is a geomean, he explained, noting that Zen 4 is a derivative of Zen 3. With Zen 3, AMD increased the execution width, and with Zen 4, the improvements come from the front-end and branch predictions, increasing the capability of more instructions per cycle.
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