AMD is really letting the floodgates open in Computex with a bevvy of announcements that will take us through to 2025. One of the announcements that the company made is its new generation of Ryzen processors. The new 9000 series processors will be leveraging the Zen 5 architecture like its Ryzen AI brethren and are pushing performance boundaries with the same AM5 socket.
The new Ryzen 9000 series processors will benefit from what AMD calls a sweeping upgrade that will impact performance and power efficiency with its new Zen 5 architecture. The new updates to the Zen 5 increase branch prediction and accuracy as well as support higher data throughputs. This translates into a marked increase in performance of up to 16% in instructions per cycle. The new Zen 5 Architecture is also designed for parallelism. This will allow power users to run multiple processors in parallel to derive even more gains and higher compute.
New Chipsets to Leverage Larger Throughputs
The Ryzen 9000 series processors will continue to support the AM5 socket which AMD launched back in 2022. However, the company has also announced new chipsets that will allow users to leverage the full performance of the new processors. The new X870 and X870E chipsets come with USB 4.0, PCIe Gen 5 and NVMe as a standard and are designed to support DDR5 memory. Overclockers will be able to squeeze more performance out of these processors. The X870 and X870E feature a total of 44 PCIe lanes and direct-to-processor PCIe 5.0 NVMe connectivity. The X870E takes it further with 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes with 16 lanes dedicated to graphics. It also offers twice the bandwidth when both sets of lanes are enabled at the same time.
However, as always, the Ryzen 9000 series processors will work with older chipsets with the AM5 socket. This will allow users to upgrade to better processors without the need to spend on new chipsets.
SKUs and Availability
The new Ryzen 9000 series processors will be available starting in July 2024. A total of 4 SKUs have been announced at Computex. Details are as follows.
| Model | Cores / Threads | Boost9 / Base Frequency | Total Cache | PCIe® | TDP |
| AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X | 16 / 32 | Up to 5.7 GHz / 4.3 GHz | 80MB | Gen 5 | 170W |
| AMD Ryzen™ 9 9900X | 12 / 24 | Up to 5.6 GHz / 4.4 GHz | 76MB | Gen 5 | 120W |
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 9700X | 8 / 16 | Up to 5.5 GHz / 3.8 GHz | 40MB | Gen 5 | 65W |
| AMD Ryzen™ 5 9600X | 6 / 12 | Up to 5.4 GHz / 3.9 GHz | 38MB | Gen 5 | 65W |
New AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processors Prolong AM4 Longevity
In addition to the new Ryzen 9000 series processors, AMD also announced two new Ryzen 5000 series processors. These new processors will support the AM4 socket extending the socket’s longevity yet again; notably beyond AMD’s initial promise of supporting it through to 2020 from 2016.
The new processors feature more performance at lower TDPs for better power efficiency. These are the details for the two new SKUs. They will be available starting in July 2024.
| Model | Cores / Threads | Boost9 / Base Frequency | Total Cache | PCIe® | TDP |
| AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900XT | 16 / 32 | Up to 4.8 GHz / 3.3 GHz | 72MB | Gen 4 | 105W |
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800XT | 8 / 16 | Up to 4.8 GHz / 3.8 GHz | 36MB | Gen 4 | 105W |
