AMD has presented last night, at the AMD Premiere event: together we advance_PCs; all the necessary data about Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Zen 4 architecture. It is the new core architecture that will be used in the Ryzen 7000 CPU series and all the news regarding the launch of its new generation of CPUs.
The Ryzen 7000 with the Zen 4 cores will be the first 5nm node CPUs for PCs. They will include the PCie Gen5 platform and memory in DDR5 format. Compared to Zen 3, the IPC is up 13%, boosts the frequency up to 5,7GHz, resulting in 29% more single core performance.
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What you need to know about the AMD Ryzen 7000 flagship: the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
First, AMD presented what will be the flagship of the Ryzen 7000: the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, which has 16 cores with 32 threads, up to 5,7 GHz boost frequency, a total of 80 MB of La2 cache and L3 combined, and a TDP of 170 W.
Through its own gaming tests, compared to the AMD Ryzen 5950X, the 7950X increases from 6% performance in Borderlands 3, to 35% in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Regarding content creator hardware, the performance improvement is even more noticeable, such as 30% in Blender Reader, up to 48% in V-Ray Render and in the Cinebench R23 sT benchmark.
Comparisons with the competition were not lacking, specifically the Intel i9-12900K of the Alder Lake generation. Except for a 1% performance drop in Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and a draw in Borderlands 3, the Ryzen 9 7950X achieves improvements of more than 20% in all benchmarks. AMD highlighted the performance improvement compared to the same Intel processor. In Ray Tracing tests, it gained 62% performance, and its performance per watt was 47% better.
Ryzen 7000 models available at launch on September 27
| Córdoba | Hubs | Threads | Frequency | Frequency Boost | Cache | TDP | Punctuation in Spanish Geekbench 5.4 |
| Ryzen 9 7950X | 16 | 32 | 4,5 GHz | 5,7 GHz | 80 MB | 170 W | 2275 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | 12 | 24 | 4,7 GHz | 5,6 GHz | 76 MB | 170 W | 2250 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | 8 | 16 | 4,5 GHz | 5,4 GHz | 40 MB | 105 W | 2225 |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | 6 | 12 | 4,7 GHz | 5,3 GHz | 38 MB | 105 W | 2175 |
What Zen 4 offers as a new core architecture
The second point of the presentation was to detail the performance improvements offered by AMD's Zen 4 architecture. Some of the key points were a new front end design, and implementation of AI acceleration through AVX-512.
Being the first commercial-class processor with a 5nm node, AMD will showcase its improvements as smaller, faster transistors with lower power consumption. They currently have several products in development and a collaboration with TSMC. Zen 4 performance can be summed up in two visualization ways:
- 62% less power consumption at the same performance compared to 7nm AMD Ryzen 5950X.
- Up to 49% performance improvement at the same average power consumption vs. equivalent AMD Ryzen 5000 series models.
The performance improvement will be especially noticeable at lower TDOs, as the 65W TDP models gain 74% performance. For their part, the 105 W and 170 W models gain 37% and 35% respectively, which does not scale the performance improvement as much in higher consumption, but it is still a notable difference.
Zen 4 is the next step for AMD in its current roadmap that began with Zen 2. In the current phase, developers are planning Zen 4 models with 3D V-Cache and Zen 4c, and for the future they hope to make the equivalents in the Zen 5 architecture, with hints to come out in 2024.
AM5 to support the power of Zen 4
AMD was able to confirm that AM5, on a single socket, currently has five CPU architectures, 4 compute nodes, over 125 processors, and over 500 motherboard models under development by partners.
They promise that AM5 will have an easier installation, with the 1718-pin LGA socket, and that it will have more power capacity with the potential to use 230W TDD CPUs. Only memory in the DDR5 format will be supported, and PCie 5.0 will be implemented for the first time on AMD boards. To maximize compatibility, Heatsinks that are already AM4 compatible will be supported.
They have several series of motherboards under development. The first series will come out in September together with Ryzen 7000, which will be the X670 and X670 Extreme. The more affordable B650 and B650 Extreme ranges will be launched in October.
For overclockers who want to get the most out of their components, AMD EXPO Technmology is introduced to create overclocking profiles for DDR5 memory. About fifteen adapter memory kits are expected for AMD Expo Technology, hoping to reach frequencies of 6400 MHz.
Ryzen 7000 release dates and prices
In a quick announcement, Dr. Lisa Su discussed the following prices for the first four Ryzen 7000 models to hit the market, the September 27 day all over the world:
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X for US$699.
- AMD Ryzen 9 7900X for US$549.
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X for US$399.
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600X for US$299.
What about RDNA 3 charts?
About the new series of AMD graphics cards, they have confirmed that they will come out this year, but they have not said anything else. They were able to show a test with the Lies of P game at 4K, using an RDNA 3 graphics card and an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.
