it's with a heavy heart that we now pay respects to a friend who
has touched all of our lives and our wallets
a friend who stuck by our side whether we wanted it or not
and never really changed
the devastating loss of Intel's performance leadership in gaming leaves
a void that for many of us won't be easy to film
but friends don't be blue
because there's always team red
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Linus
four cpus are launching today the ryzen 5950x
ryzen 9 5900x and ryzen 7 5800x and wait
where's our 5600x well there's one of those two curiously
no non-x cpus have even been announced just
yet but these all coincide with their 3
000 series namesakes in terms of core count and market position
AMD did make one tweak to the lineup though every sku but the ryzen 5 5600x
has received a 50 price bump placing it
firmly above Intel commanding a premium
this threw a lot of folks for a loop after the announcement and now we can
finally answer the question can they can they do that
our test setup is a bit more extensive than usual because we're packing in all
four new cpus four of their predecessors
and three team blue cpus to mark this potentially momentous occasion
getting right to business when compared against our ryzen 3000 series chips it's
clear that in games there is a major
performance advantage with the 5000 series in fact that advantage tends to
hover around 20 extremely close to AMD's claimed 19
instructions per clock performance uplift and this is especially true in
notoriously CPU bound games like microsoft flight simulator 2020.
same goes for gta 5 cs go heck even
civilization 6 has turn times that are roughly 5 seconds faster doesn't matter
what game it is the ryzen 5000 series is significantly faster compared to the
last gen but none of this is a surprise i mean obviously AMD wouldn't release a
new product if it was worse than their old one
we don't talk about that usually that doesn't happen
so then how does ryzen 5000 stack up against
team blue ladies and gentlemen
they got him even the ryzen 5 5600x
a CPU that costs 300 us dollars beat
every single one of Intel's cpus more
often than it lost and where it did lose it was within a few percentage points
these are all games that are traditionally CPU bound and holy sh
would you look at that performance in cs go
that is over 200 more frames per second
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moving on productivity is ryzen's traditional stomping ground and well
what can i say this guy stomps
look at these single threaded cinebench scores only the 5600x the lowest in the new
lineup falls below 600 points and for reference a core i9 10900k scores a
measly 535 AMD continues to flex all over not only
their previous generation but team blue's entire lineup with the ryzen 7
5800x meeting or beating Intel's core i9
even in multi-threaded workloads like pov ray our mozilla firefox compile test
and blender only v-ray and corona renderer were any
kinder to Intel and even that lead quickly evaporated when
we introduced the cost competitor ryzen 9 5900x to the mix to say nothing of the
16 core 5950x
Intel just cannot catch a break here
and if you were wondering whether their upcoming rocket lake cpus are going to
help well after doing some rough napkin math here
if we assume rocket lake's performance will be between 10 and 20 percent higher
than 10th gen that basically brings us back to status
quo so assuming that Intel can keep core
clocks as high as they are now the best case scenario is that Intel will get
back their gaming performance thrown but because they are losing two cores on the
top end skew that means that anywhere that thread count is a factor
Intel's claimed ipc uplift is unlikely to make up the difference
so at a minimum then AMD has the gaming crown for a couple of months and will
continue to absolutely pulverize Intel
in productivity even after the 11th gen launch i mean this is something that we
haven't seen in well over a decade now
clearly then surely this comes at some sort of major
cost and power consumption or thermal
output right right
wrong check this out under the same blender workload we are
bang on between all of our 3000 and 5000
series cpus with none of the pairs
appreciably hotter than the other not only that the 5000 series cpus
maintained roughly the same or even higher core clocks throughout the test
that means the improvements in performance mostly came straight from
improvements in core architecture power consumption bizarrely seems to be
actually down a bit for ryzen 5000 with each CPU
drawing at worst the same or at best a
little bit less juice from the socket than 3000 series and that means we can
corroborate AMD's claims that they are literally not drawing so much as a
single watt more this really is an incredible achievement
as for how they got here AMD claims that all of this was done through pure
engineering and there's a lot to talk about here starting with the demise of
the compute complex as we know it now they're still called ccx's but they're
not partitioned into groups of four cores anymore and every eight core die
is now able to access its full level three cache without having to deal with
the extra latency involved in splitting it up this is a big part of what gives
AMD such a massive boost in performance because
as we're well aware by now zen loves fast memory and zen 3 is no
exception so having a unified pool of cache memory means that ryzen 5000 can
more effectively feed all the cores all the time and that's not all AMD tweaked
their branch predictor and their operation queue and the tl dr of that is
that the CPU can do more per clock and there's less of a penalty for it having
to back up and redo work if it
mispredicts something and beyond just ryzen 5000 itself AMD's
upcoming Radeon 6000 series gpus will be
able to work with these cpus with a feature that they're calling smart
access memory which will allow a ryzen CPU to access all 16 gigs of a Radeon
6000 series gpus memory in some cases
providing a major speed up now we are eager to test this out for
ourselves once those cards launch so make sure that you get subscribed so you
don't miss it as for compatibility
AMD says that ryzen 5000 cpus will be compatible with motherboards using 400
series chipsets as well as the recommended 500 series chipsets you'll
need to wait though for a BIOS update in order to use one of these new zen3 cpus
in an older board and unfortunately for
early adopters and thrift seekers 300
series motherboards are officially unsupported
makes sense i guess i mean early first gen ryzen boards
had some issues and they can't guarantee anything at this point and frankly AMD
has still done pretty okay with intergenerational
compatibility for the most part especially compared to Intel's hard and
fast two generations of CPU
two generations of boards and then you're done
bottom line then if ryzen 3000 was ryzen
matured ryzen 5000 is a continuation of that i
mean we experienced no weird stability issues even right at launch and it also
marks AMD's return to the upper echelon of desktop CPU performance
Intel by contrast outright missed the holiday season this year and if AMD is
able to further refine the next big ryzen CPU for tsmc's shiny new five
nanometer process Intel's holiday next year isn't gonna look much better
like to be clear it's not all about nanometers NVIDIA famously squeezed a
full generation of extra performance without changing process nodes when they
released maxwell in 2014 and doi
AMD just did it today on tsmc's 7 nanometer
but rocket lake is going to be pushing Intel's geriatric 14 nanometer node to
its freaking limit unless something really surprising happens
so it's a big win here's the podium
the only reason that i advise you not to pull the trigger is if you get mondo
buyers remorse when you buy new stuff and it gets replaced by something way
better a short time later because Intel and AMD's leapfrog game looks to be
heating up not slowing down
i just hope that AMD's supply can keep up with the demand
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thanks for watching guys if you're looking for something else maybe go
check out our announcement video for the ryzen 6000 series it's got all the juicy
details about the gpus that are supposed to go hand in hand with these cpus did
you notice AMD didn't launch a new chipset with these
that is so cool they're not even trying to force you to go buy a new motherboard
motherboard guys must not like it that much though