this is a big moment for me my career at
LMG began with the launch of the very first ryzen cpus in 2017.
fast forward five and a half years and the socket that i cut my teeth on as a
tech journalist is finally at the end of its life cycle using the new am5 socket
AMD's ryzen 7000 promises not only to
live up to the legacy they built with ryzen but also to humiliate the competition in
the same way they were in the before times and even more surprisingly
they might be bucking industry trends when it comes to efficiency
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AMD's first big announcements of the day were all centered around the ryzen 9
7950x the 16 core 32 thread beast of a
CPU that can boost up to a staggering 5.7 gigahertz making it a massively
versatile piece of silicon from AMD's benchmarks which we should take with a
grain of salt it performs about 15 percent better on average over the
outgoing 5950x in 1080p gaming and up to
a whopping 40 percent better in content creation compared to Intel's core i9
12900k it's either as good or up to 24
faster depending on the game and as much as 62 percent faster in content creation
now obviously this depends greatly on the
workload AMD brought receipts by showing the v-ray
renderer running on both chips now mind you v-ray is more geared towards GPU
compute but this is an illustration of the wider design principles that AMD put
into the new zen4 cores built on what AMD calls a specialized n5 process
developed in close collaboration with tsmc the new chips accomplished their
performance targets while actually reducing dye area by 18
despite the addition of new features including the infamous avx-512 that
Intel deprecated for alder lake instead of using up die area with dedicated
space for this AMD is using the existing 256-bit structures but in a double pump
or ddr arrangement which they say causes
fewer clock speed fluctuations as all those transistors are constantly
changing state and crunching on those vast numbers
but hold up a second avx-512 is not for gaming and Intel's
more or less abandoning it so why is AMD
embracing it well AMD's claim is that avx 512 will give ryzen a performance
boost in deep learning workloads which Intel has dedicated instructions for the
long and the short of it is that it should improve performance while having minimal downsides and a die that's
half the size of the competition though of course this is something we'll
have to test for ourselves but perhaps the most important consequence of this
shrunken die is power efficiency it's no secret that
the tech industry has been headed down the dark path of ever increasing power
draw for a while now and with the announcement that the ryzen 9 7950x's
TDP would increase by 62 percent many in
the tech industry feared that verizon 7000 would be another example of
throwing more power at the problem luckily for us AMD claims that this was
done on the 7950x almost entirely for the extra headroom and in operation the
new chips have been substantially better in performance per watt than ryzen 5000.
using the 16 core ryzen 9s is an example the 7950x manages 62 percent lower power
draw for the same performance or gets 49
more performance for the same power draw most impressively at a fixed 65 watt TDP
that number grows to 74 percent better performance which
would mean that rather than the new chips being
insatiably power hungry they're in fact
much more efficient i'm not sure that this isn't spin until i see it myself
but this is extremely exciting for future
efficiency builds if true as for how they've managed it AMD tells
me that it's a roughly 60 40 split between the physical die shrink along
with some tweaks and the design and all the lessons learned in the mobile space
including the all new six nanometer i o die with the new integrated graphics
processor now they didn't really talk too much about that new igpu in the
presentation but they say that it's not going to be as powerful as what you
might find in an apu that its primary role is to bring up and expand displays
and to offload acceleration functions for video and code and decode
they specifically said that it wouldn't be something that people expect to game
on which of course means that people are going to try and game on them like come
on as we reported before all of the new chips are going to have this new eye GPU
thanks to the i o die and if you're not
GPU limited you're going to get a lot more performance in games because AMD
has further improved the front end with some tweaks and a doubled up l2 cache
giving the ryzen 979 50x a grand total of 80 megabytes of combined cash to play
with as anyone who's followed our rising coverage from day one knows keeping the
beast fed is half the battle and this
should help tremendously AMD's testing showed a 13 instructions per clock
uplift over ryzen 5000 thanks to these tweaks to design when they had
previously expected eight to ten percent and those clocks are much higher what
will also help is the transition to pure ddr5 for the new socket am5
the nerdiest among you like myself will already know this but tldr
socket am5 is a brand new platform that finally transitions AMD to using a land
grid array like Intel or threadripper do today instead of a pin grid array as
previous generation ryzen processors used this increases the pin density in this
case 1718 and reduces the likelihood that you'll
break your CPU just by putting it down wrong no word yet if they'll need that
eight dollar walmart CPU frame to prevent flexing but the extra pins will
allow for more power to flow to the socket up to 230 watts and allow for
more bandwidth to and from ddr5 memory and pci express gen 5 which comes
standard on all chipsets for the NVMe storage that AMD says we'll see in
november but for the GPU gen 5 will only be
supported on the two extreme series chipset variations
now AMD says there is zero performance difference between the chipsets in stock
operation and that they should differ really only in io and power delivery for
overclocking which all chipset variants
do in fact support AMD's claiming that they'll support am5 until at least 2025
which i mean that's like two and a half or three
years from now given that am4 lasted for twice as long and was host to five whole
generations of cpus we can only hope
that this is a case of under promise over deliver and hopefully they'll over
deliver on their new expo RAM specification too this is AMD's answer
to Intel's xmp and was announced a few months ago but AMD says that we should
see over 15 kits available at launch at up to 6 400 mega transfers per second
xmp memory will still work but AMD figures this will make it a lot easier
for vendors to tweak sub timings for ryzen and in typical AMD fashion the
spec is fully open to the public the pricing for the chips themselves hasn't
changed compared to ryzen 5000 except the 16 core ryzen 9 which is
seeing a 100 discount for the newer chip like what is this bizarro land like in
this economy they're gonna do a discount anyway i don't have the sales data but it seems
like a good bet that the 5950x didn't sell as well as AMD had hoped after its
price hike over the previous generations 3950x
or perhaps they just felt embarrassed to have the most expensive desktop CPU on
the market i'm like Intel's 12900 ks to shoulder that now instead interestingly
the only ryzen 7 option announced today was the 7700x
not the 7800x my guess would be that AMD
will use that name for the 3dv cache variant later on
probably sometime later this year they said maybe early next year i'm not
entirely sure most exciting for gamers though is that
AMD's 300 ryzen 5 7600x seemingly
competes with and wins against the core i9 12900k
a CPU that costs more than twice as much
as with any claim from the manufacturer this is something that we're going to
have to verify but it's also something that we're excited for especially if
there's overclocking headroom available given its 5.3 gigahertz stock max turbo
speed no word yet on any less expensive non-excuse though AMD says that they
expect the lineup to expand in a similar way to ryzen 5000 so we're probably
looking at next year sometime for true budget
options from team red this entire event was about ryzen but AMD being AMD they
just couldn't help but talk a little bit about our dna 3 as well which is
apparently going to feature a 5 nanometer chiplet based design that AMD
claims will provide a 50 performance per watt improvement over current gen Radeon
gpus again a big win if true next to the
looming shadow of rtx 4000 they showed off a bit of gameplay as a teaser but
that's really all we got i guess we'll just have to stay tuned
the too long didn't watch though is this
ryzen 7000 looks far more of an upgrade
than people initially feared and it doesn't look like it's just gonna be
ryzen 5000 on ddr5 of course
this is all stuff we have to verify for ourselves again i keep saying that but
it's true and we'll have a review as soon as we're able to launch it the
whole am5 platform including the four cpus they're launching with it will be
coming out on september 27th and AMD says that they're confident in their
ability to keep up with demand now we've heard that before but hey we
can always hope just like we can always hope for a response in kind from team blue and for
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more at the link down below thanks for watching guys this is a uh well it's
been a while since we've done it on location shoot hasn't it maybe we can
look at some of the previous rising releases like the ryzen 5000
announcement or some of the earlier ryzen 7000 rumors it's uh it's been an
interesting ride and it's been an interesting ride since driving 1000 too