Everything we learned at AMD’s Zen 5 tech day

AMD gathered up press from around the world last week to showcase its first Zen 5 processors. Leo flew over to get all the details during the Tech Day. If you're interested in making the jump to Zen 5, then read on!

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AMD's presentation on Zen 5 highlights a few core areas of focus. With this new architecture, AMD has brought more instructions per cycle, doubled cache data bandwidth and AI acceleration. On average, AMD claims a 16 percent IPC uplift for Zen 5 over its predecessor. In the slides found above, we can see some of the benchmarks, with +35% on the high-end in Geekbench 5.4, and a 10 percent gain in games like Far Cry 6 at the low end. According to AMD, Zen 5 also delivers up to 32% higher single-core performance in Machine Learning, and 35 percent more single-core performance in AES-XTS encryption.

This is achieved with faster, smaller and lower power transistors and TSMC's 4nm and 3nm technologies. The first EPYC Zen 5 processors, which are due in the second half of this year, will offer up to 182 cores and 384 threads, security enhancements through Trusted IO. On the consumer front, AMD is launching Ryzen 9000 for desktops, including a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X, a 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X, an 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X and a 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X. On the laptop side, AMD is rolling out the new Ryzen AI 300 processors, codenamed ‘Strix Point', with Zen 5 CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics.

On the graphics front, AMD is introducing RDNA 3.5 for new iGPUs, optimised for performance per watt. AMD sees 15W as the magic number for balancing performance and efficiency. Compared to previous-gen Ryzen ‘Hawk Point' chips, the newer ‘Strix Point' CPUs with RDNA 3.5 offer up to 32 percent higher performance, based on a 3DMark TimeSpy test.

Ryzen 9000 processors for desktops, and the first Ryzen AI 300 powered laptops, are expected to become available this month. Future 3D V-cache processors will be launched under the Ryzen 9000X3D nomenclature at some point, but for now, AMD is keeping quiet on a specific release window.

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