oh i've got bad news guys
AMD just announced their plans for socket am5 and there's no other way to
put this it represents such a major shift from the incremental generational
improvement paradigm that we've enjoyed so much since the first quad-core CPU
showed up in 2007 that i'm afraid we as consumers are reaching the point where
winning this hard for so long is becoming unbearable we're back on an
upgrade treadmill where a CPU from five years ago even two or three years ago is
now at a major disadvantage it's tough to keep up
and i wouldn't have it any other way and i'm gonna tell you why this announcement
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AMD always saves the biggest news for last but we're going to front load it
AMD's ryzen 7000 and am5 platform look
very promising Intel's 12th gen core did
beat AMD to the punch with ddr5 and pci
express gen 5 support but AMD is clapping back with more available PCIe
lanes off the CPU and what appears to be a more mature ddr5 memory controller
that is if the test notes are to be believed not content with only that AMD
has come after Intel in terms of core clocks too in their demo at the end of
the presentation they showed off a pre-production 16 core ryzen 7000 CPU
blazing along at 5.5 gigahertz in ghostwire tokyo which
matches the core i9 12900 ks's maximum
boost clock that alone is a massive improvement over AMD's current flagship
the 5950x which manages 4.9 gigahertz
max boost and remember guys this isn't a game it's not even single threaded AMD
could have called it a day at that point but no they're coming at Intel with core
level improvements too like ai acceleration instructions though exactly
what they are and what they do isn't yet known what is known is that thanks in
part to doubling the level two cache on each core to one megabyte AMD is
claiming a 15 or greater per thread performance improvement in cinebench r23
so if they can get multi-core clocks to stay high to match those single core
clocks Intel may have to go completely back to the drawing board thankfully
AMD's new lga-based socket am5 supports
cpus with tdps of up to 170 watts so
along with the switch to what AMD hints is an optimized version of tsmc's n5p
process node that shouldn't be an unreasonable goal especially with a good
cooler i mean especially since there's coolers out there that are rated to
handle Intel's 12900k which is rated for
241 watts and from our testing regularly
blows right past that figure thanks to his extra power draw the 12-900k does
manage to beat the 5950x in our testing
during short renders like the kind that AMD showed on stage but the best we've
seen is a 15 lead the other way for AMD
in a much longer test as for AMD's ryzen 7000 demo they showed the 16 core ryzen
7000 chip finishing 31 faster than the
core i9 12 900k this is big that was enough short test too
right Anthony interestingly AMD didn't mention
anything about 3d v cache their method for adding well three-dimensional
vertical cache for ryzen 7000 to expand the level 3 cache already on the die
what that means is much like with ryzen 5000 we could see separate standard and
3dv cache versions of these chips in the future which could potentially improve
performance even further they could also just all have it for all we know like
they all have the new six nanometer i o die complete with rd and a2 integrated
graphics integrated graphics were one of Intel's last major differentiators prior
to their e-core p core layout change because previously this required you to
give up some cache and pci express bandwidth on ryzen apus
well now all desktop ryzen cpus will
have integrated graphics just like Intel can we get rid of the term apu now then
great AMD didn't comment on just how many
compute units would be included but they did say that am5 motherboards could come
with any combination of up to four HDMI 2.1 or displayport 2.0 outputs likely in
the form of usb type-c ports which AMD will support in force with up to 14
20 gigabit per second usb ports by contrast Intel's top-end z690 chipset
can only run four of those with the rest of them being 10 or 5 gigabit per second
that chipset's integration of wi-fi 6e is also no longer an Intel exclusive
advantage since the new am5 platform natively supports wi-fi 6e with
bluetooth le 5.2 and all of these features are going to be available
across all of the new chipsets AMD's actually shaken things up a little bit
by the way with respect to their chipsets what we might have previously
thought of as x670 is now x670 extreme
and it extends pci express gen 5 to every available slot on the motherboard
for ridiculous overall system band something that Intel z690 doesn't do
vanilla x670 meanwhile limits gen 5 operation to just m.2 storage and the
graphics slot connecting those directly to the CPU like Intel does finally
there's b650 which defaults to pci express gen 4 for all but the storage
slot which does get the gen 5 treatment there's no word on future a series
chipsets but at least according to AMD's presentation these are the only major
differences between the chipsets that they did announce outside of power
delivery which is really more down to the motherboard manufacturers anyway so
if that's the case then hey thanks AMD and even if it's not i still have to
thank AMD for the direction that they have forced the industry to go since the
release of ryzen back in 2017. five short years was all it took to change a
stagnant straight line performance improvement into a very prominent hockey
stick core counts instructions per clock cash
pci express bandwidth ddr memory bandwidth it has all skyrocketed in the
last five years and i have no reason to believe that Intel would have been
pushed to participate so quickly if they had been left unchallenged it's at a
point now where those AMD and Intel cpus and platforms from five years ago
are really showing their age something that actually wasn't true of third gen
core even as recently as 2020 when it
was five generations into its life cycle
you don't need to worry about that with your water bottle from ltstore.com though that will never be obsolete now
if you thought that was all you haven't been paying attention to mobile either
because AMD has some exciting stuff in the pipeline there too first up is their
mendocino apu an up to quad core zen 2
chip with integrated rdna 2 graphics that AMD is targeting the 399 to 6.99
price point with and hopes to see greater than 10 hours of mixed usage
battery life from i mean gaming chromebooks anyone this should seriously
improve battery life at the lower end of the scale i mean remember zen 2 cores
may not be the latest and the greatest but they're not that much slower than
zen 3 and paired with rd and a2 for GPU accelerated video decoding they should
handle most everyday tasks with ease a
lot of new laptop designs were announced too including a 17 millimeter thick
lenovo with a 100 watt hour battery capable of 100 FPS gaming an alienware
with a 4k 120hz display another more
different lenovo with force sensitive wasd keys for precise movements
and Corsair's first ever in-house laptop complete with what they call a streaming
grade webcam and an integrated 10-key stream deck no word on whether this
laptop also supports other streamer-friendly features like HDMI
input but get subscribed so you don't miss our upcoming coverage of it how
could we pass through on something like that AMD says that the am5 platform will
release this fall with mendocino apus coming in quarter four oh right apus are
apparently still here darn it the other announcements were mostly stuff we've
already seen although they did elaborate on their support for direct storage
hinting that their implementation will be more than simply adding GPU
accelerated decompression so that's another thing we'll have to wait and see
about with the industry in such an upward trajectory remember pci express
gen 4 was only around on the desktop for like two years before being replaced it
really feels like the good old days doesn't it when you could go and buy a
computer knowing that it was going to be obsolete in just a few short years which
sounds bad from an investment standpoint but what it means for the pc industry is
more performance better graphics faster video editing and honestly
it's getting to the point where it's been so long with this new hockey stick
shift i'm starting to feel like it's just the beginning the beginning of the
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thanks for watching guys go check out this older video now from when AMD first
revealed the ryzen 5000 series that definitively snatched the gaming crown
from Intel for the first time well for the first time since the early 2000s
anyway and really kicked off this battle of the giants