Computex 2024: AMD Reveals Zen 5-Powered Ryzen 9000 Series
Earlier this year, AMD announced the expansion of AI application development through the introduction of products utilizing the Zen 5 series, RDNA 3+, and XDNA 2 architectures. During the Computex 2024 keynote, AMD unveiled the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors, codenamed “Granite Ridge,” and updated the Ryzen 5000XT series desktop processors.
With the Zen 5 architecture, there are significant enhancements in frontend structure computation instruction bandwidth, data transfer bandwidth, and AI computing performance, resulting in a twofold improvement in these areas. Compared to the Zen 4 architecture, there is a 16% increase in computational cycle efficiency. AMD emphasized that the new Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors will deliver superior computational performance.
The Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors include the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X. The former features 16 cores, 32 threads, a maximum clock speed of 5.7GHz, and a total of 80MB cache memory, with a thermal design power (TDP) of 170W. The latter offers 12 cores, 24 threads, a maximum clock speed of 5.6GHz, a total of 76MB cache memory, and a TDP of 120W.
Additionally, AMD introduced two models with a TDP of 65W: the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X. The Ryzen 7 9700X features 8 cores, 16 threads, a maximum clock speed of 5.5GHz, and a total of 40MB cache memory. The Ryzen 5 9600X offers 6 cores, 12 threads, a maximum clock speed of 5.4GHz, and a total of 38MB cache memory.
The Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors are compatible with motherboards featuring the X870 or X870E chipset, utilizing the AM5 socket design. They support USB 4.0 connectivity, PCIe Gen 5, NVMe SSD modules, and memory modules with overclocking extension profiles (EXPO).
The updated Ryzen 5000XT series desktop processors include the Ryzen 9 5900XT with 16 cores, 32 threads, a maximum clock speed of 4.8GHz, 72MB cache memory, and a TDP of 105W. The Ryzen 7 5800XT features 8 cores, 16 threads, a maximum clock speed of 4.8GHz, 36MB cache memory, and a TDP of 105W.
Both the Ryzen 9000 series and the new Ryzen 5000XT series desktop processors are set to be released in July this year, with specific pricing yet to be announced.
