AMD announced its new and powerful Ryzen 9000 processors with Zen 5 architecture; see specifications

Sunday (02) night, AMD opened Computex 2024 by announcing its new processors for desktop computers, Ryzen 9000 with Zen 5 architecture.. The new chips, codenamed Granite Ridge, feature a number of improvements over the previous generation. AMD showed a 16% IPC (instruction per cycle) gain over Zen 4 chips.

Ryzen 9000 is the successor to Ryzen 7000 for AMD’s latest desktop platform, Socket AM5. AM5 is released in 2022, with AMD promising support until 2025. The company announced at yesterday’s event that this support will be extended until at least 2027.

As usual, AMD announced the main models of the new chip series with the following addition: All models have the same number of cores and threads and the same amount of cache as their predecessors.

However, three of the processors have a much lower TDP than their previous generation counterparts. Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X had a 50 W TDP drop in the first, and a 40 W TDP drop in the last two. This means the new chips are easier to cool and should also consume less energy.

Zen 5 Architecture

The new Zen 5 architecture brings a number of advantages over Zen 4, as well as a 16% gain in IPC. Ryzen 9000 is manufactured using TSMC’s 4nm lithography, which means greater energy efficiency and less heat generation.

The new chip series also offers up to twice the data bandwidth between the L2 and L1 caches and between the L1 and the floating-point unit, twice the bandwidth for front-end instructions, and twice the performance on AI-based tasks and AVX-512 instructions.

AMD also announced two new chipsets (X870 and X870E) that provide compatibility with USB 4.0 and PCIe Gen 5 standards for GPUs and SSDs. These motherboards will also support faster memory.