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AMD revealed more information about its next-generation Ryzen 9000 processor and the Zen 5-core CPU architecture this week ahead of its launch in late July. The company reiterated some of the high-profile performance claims it made last month — low- to mid-second-digit performance gains over the Zen 4 in both single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks. But AMD also boasted about the chips’ power efficiency compared to the Ryzen 7000, saying they’ll reduce power consumption despite higher performance.
Energy efficiency is a priority
AMD says it has lowered the default performance limits for three of the four Ryzen 9000 processors – the Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 9 7900X – compared to the Ryzen 7000 versions of the same chip. Despite lower standard performance limits, these three chips still boast double-digit performance improvements over their predecessors. AMD also says that the Ryzen 9000’s CPU temperature drops by up to 7 degrees Celsius compared to the Ryzen 7000 chip with the same settings.
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Ryzen 9000’s low double-digit performance gains come despite the fact that the company has lowered the standard TDP for most of its chips. These TDP settings determine how much power your AMD CPU can use (although they don’t determine how much power they can use). Will used).
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Since the TDP has been reduced, AMD claims that the Ryzen 9000 chipset will have more overclocking capabilities than the Ryzen 7000.
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It’s worth noting that we’ve generally tested the original Ryzen 7000 CPUs at multiple performance levels and found for most chips – especially the 7600X and 7700X – that TDP values didn’t significantly improve performance in the first place. Lowering the Ryzen 9000’s TDP may be possible in part through architectural improvements or a new manufacturing process, but AMD already had some scope to lower these power consumption figures without compromising too much on performance. TDP is also best viewed as a performance indicator the border This is not the actual amount of power used by the CPU for a given workload, even if it is maxed out.
However, we applaud AMD’s focus on power efficiency with the Ryzen 9000 series, especially since Intel’s high-end 13900K and 14900K processors have suffered crashes that… to see it Excessive power consumption and improper motherboard configuration can cause this. Intel has not yet made a definitive statement about the problem, but it is plausible (and perhaps even likely!) that the problem is caused by the extreme temperatures and high resistance to electricity of these chips.
Users who want to push the performance limits and try overclocking can still push their Ryzen 9000 CPUs even further – AMD notes that all chips have more room for automatic precision boost overdrive, precisely because the standard performance limit is for slightly higher performance. allows But as long as the chips still run well at their default settings, people who want to build a computer without too much tinkering are better off using chips that are cooler and use less power.
More cycle time for AM5 sockets
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AMD has committed to supporting the AM5 socket until “2027+”, two years longer than “2025+”, which was promised at the end of 2022.
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The Ryzen 9000 will launch alongside several slightly updated chipsets, although existing AM5 boards will be able to use these chipsets after a BIOS update.
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There’s another small but significant change to AMD chipsets that’s good news for anyone who’s already invested in a Socket AM5 motherboard or plans to in the near future: AMD has officially extended the guaranteed period of socket support to 2027, leaving the door open to support beyond that point. . This is a two-year extension of the “2025+” schedule that the company had set for late 2022.
Of course, “support” can mean many different things. AMD continues to officially support the AM4 socket in new CPU releases and continues to rely on AM4 as an economical platform because AM5 sockets are stubbornly expensive. However, these “new” releases were repackages of various versions of the late 2020 Ryzen 5000 CPU rather than truly new products. However, AMD’s official promise about the longevity of the AM5 socket makes this possible little bit Easy to recommend for those who regularly update their CPUs.
The Ryzen 9000 chipset can be connected to any current AM5 motherboard after a BIOS update. The company is also announcing a range of 800-series chipsets for the new motherboards, but they usually offer little improvement over the 600-series chipsets. Of course, the X870E and X870 have USB 4 ports and GPUs, while the lower B840 chipset is limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds for everything. The B840 also does not support CPU overclocking, although it is still capable of RAM overclocking.
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