{"video_id":"LpoGGGDtK9U","title":"Is AMD Zen 5 worth buying?","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":257,"segments":[{"start_s":0.04,"end_s":6.759,"text":"it feels like it wasn't that long ago that AMD released Zen 4 and transitioned","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.919,"end_s":10.639,"text":"to LGA sockets but now the release of Zen 5 is imminent with team red","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.36,"end_s":14.639,"text":"announcing it'll be out in July so is Zen 5 worth your excitement and more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.719,"end_s":19.76,"text":"importantly is it worth your hard-earned money let's first take a look at Cold","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.24,"end_s":24.48,"text":"Hard performance numbers at least the ones given to us by AMD the company has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.359,"end_s":28.32,"text":"claimed that we're looking at a 16% performance 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on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.319,"end_s":229.519,"text":"desktops or laptops but if you do want","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":227.599,"end_s":234.599,"text":"Microsoft's AI features on a traditional x86 system then have at it Microsoft has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.879,"end_s":239.12,"text":"announced that co-pilot plus will be getting GPU support in the future and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":236.76,"end_s":242.319,"text":"other AI tasks tend to run quite well on gpus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":240.28,"end_s":246.64,"text":"but laptops save power running them on npus hence the current focus on getting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":244.48,"end_s":250.439,"text":"them into notebooks what do you think about Zen 5 are you going to be checking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":248.4,"end_s":253.68,"text":"it out for your next upgrade let us know down in the comments and if you want to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":251.84,"end_s":258.12,"text":"know more about one of Zen 5's biggest competitors go watch this video next","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1}],"full_text":"it feels like it wasn't that long ago that AMD released Zen 4 and transitioned to LGA sockets but now the release of Zen 5 is imminent with team red announcing it'll be out in July so is Zen 5 worth your excitement and more importantly is it worth your hard-earned money let's first take a look at Cold Hard performance numbers at least the ones given to us by AMD the company has claimed that we're looking at a 16% performance increase over zen4 in terms of instructions per clock cycle and seeing as how the speeds in Mega Herz are similar to what we got with ryzen 7000 that should hopefully translate to a somewhat comparable average performance increase though this will depend heavily on the application with blender being one of the programs that benefited most dramatically in AMD's internal testing team red says that the IPC improvements are partly due to better Branch prediction which is pretty typical for a new generation of CPU but there are also improvements away from the CPU dies themselves for starters Zen 5 has official support for higher memory speeds now you'll be able to set your RAM up to jck ddr5 5600 speeds while remaining within warranty this is up from the 5200 speed supported by Zen 4 and a new chip architecture also means faster chip sets so far AMD has announced the x870 and the x870 with the main difference being that the ladder has a few more usable PCI Express Lanes perhaps a bit more excitingly USB 4.0 support is standard on both chipsets as well as support for Wi-Fi 7 the launch lineup will be fairly similar to what we've seen in the past two n series modules A S Series and a 5 series with the core counts also being the same but with lower tdps outside of the very top end 950x which makes sense considering Zen 5 is on a smaller process node than Zen 4 but there's something on the laptop side that's significantly different from what we've seen from AMD before and we'll tell you what that is right after we thank paulway have you ever left your computer to do something you leave for the day only to come back and find your computer has crashed pulseway wants to free you from these kinds of headaches with pulseway you have your own it sidekick right in your pocket using your smartphone you can monitor your system and automate issue resolutions you can even troubleshoot problems before they rear their ugly heads which means you can just go about living your life imagine that so free yourself from your desk today and try pulseway for free by clicking on the link in the description the first couple Zen 5 mobile CPUs will have different branding than in the past as they're going to be called ryzen Ai and you guessed it these CPUs are going to have integrated neural processing units or npus in order to compete with both qualcomm's new Snapdragon X chips as well as upcoming Intel chips that will also have more of a focus on AI these ryen AI npus will support up to 50 trillion operations per seconds or tops making them over three times as powerful as the npus we got with the ryzen 8000 series and more than strong enough to officially support Windows co-pilot plus features including that controversial Windows recall function assuming of course Microsoft actually releases it at some point two high-end mobile chips will be available at launch one with 12 cores and another with 10 so would we recommend buying a Zen 5 chip or a laptop with one included this summer when they hit the market well you do get a nice little performance bump but seeing as the last Zen 4 already had optional support for newer standards like PCI Express 5.0 and USB 4 we don't think they're an absolute must buy if you've already upgraded recently and the general attitude toward AI these days seems to be rather negative especially considering there isn't yet a super compelling use case for local npus on desktops or laptops but if you do want Microsoft's AI features on a traditional x86 system then have at it Microsoft has announced that co-pilot plus will be getting GPU support in the future and other AI tasks tend to run quite well on gpus but laptops save power running them on npus hence the current focus on getting them into notebooks what do you think about Zen 5 are you going to be checking it out for your next upgrade let us know down in the comments and if you want to know more about one of Zen 5's biggest competitors go watch this video next"}