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
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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
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