AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs announced

+19 percent IPC, AMD claims ‘best gaming CPU’.

The new family, known as the Ryzen 5000 series, includes four parts and supports up to sixteen cores. The key element of the new product is the core design, with AMD’s latest Zen 3 micro architecture, promising a 19% raw increase in performance-per clock, well above recent generation al improvements. The new processors are socket compatible with existing500-series motherboards.

AMD is keeping a similar structure to the previous generation. The first four processors to market will include products in the key Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 segments, as well as a pair of high-performance parts with Ryzen 9. These will stretch from six cores to sixteen cores, with increased frequencies and increased performance-per-clock, but with no additional increase in power. The processors are still chiplet-based, with one chiplet having either six or eight cores. Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 will have one chiplet, while Ryzen 9 will have two chiplets.

Sitting on the top of the processor line is the new halo Ryzen 9 5950X. With 16 cores and 32 threads, it has a listed base frequency of 3.4GHz and a boost frequency of 4.9GHz. With two chiplets it has the full 64 MB of L3 cache, and the 105W rated TDP is equal to the 16-core equivalent of the previous generation.

The second processor is the Ryzen 9 5900X, which offers 12 cores and 24 threads, using two six-core chiplets and having a full 64 MB of L3 cache. With a base frequency of 3.7GHz and a turbo frequency of 4.8GHz, AMD is calling this processor the ‘World’s Best Gaming CPU’. This is likely because of the lower core count than the other Ryzen 9 allowing slightly higher frequencies when a game loads up several of the cores.

The Ryzen 7 5800X is expected to follow in the footsteps of the popular Ryzen 7 3700X. This is a single chiplet processor with eight cores and sixteen threads, running at 3.8GHz base and 4.7GHz boost.

The base model at launch this time around is the Ryzen 5 5600X, with a single chiplet of six cores and twelve threads, running a base frequency of 3.7GHz and turbo frequency of 4.6GHz. Australian pricing was not announced at the time we went to press.

“The base model at launch this time around is the Ryzen 5 5600X, with a single chiplet of six cores and twelve threads, running a base frequency of 3.7GHz and turbo frequency of 4.6GHz.”