AMD has the tech world excited again, thanks to some news and the announcement of its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs. It’s exactly a year since the company launched its Ryzen 7000 series, and with its Zen 5 architecture set to land on desktops in… July! … wait, August? I only noticed because an official web page lists August. Still, we’re edging towards a new generation. Ryzen 9000 isn’t a massive technological leap, although it promises improvements over Zen 4 from the ground up. It will offer roughly a 16 per cent speed boost, at the same clock rates, in theory.
Looking a little deeper into the technical lobotomy, the Zen 5 architecture does not innovate AMD’s CPU lineup, but rather refines it. This chimes with the tech industry’s broader trend of optimising performance within existing frameworks: while the Ryzen 9000 series will not increase the number of cores, the range will consist of 6 to 16 Zen 5 cores – a strategy the company has benefited from since the Ryzen 3000 series.
Contrary to earlier rumours, the Ryzen 9000 series is likely to never integrate Zen 5c E-cores, continuing AMD’s progress in the multi-core design front and remaining extremely energy efficient. Once again, AMD shows to stay ahead of Intel in terms of power and productivity at each new generation of the Core family. This will happen just when the big tech giants, such as APPLE, spread their bets on two fronts to maximise efficiency and performance.
The company’s new X870 and X870E motherboard chipsets – for use with the Ryzen 9000 CPUs – improve connectivity and performance features, including USB4 support and increased EXPO memory overclocking speeds, all built to deliver the best Ryzen has to offer.
Surprisingly, power consumption for the Ryzen 9000 series is equal to the prior generations so users upgrading from older processors will not have to do a costly overhaul of their hardware. This kind of backwards compatibility has led to the larger conversation about whether or not the AM5 platform will be cost-effective compared with its own predecessor, the AM4 platform, as well as competing systems.
For AMD to sit somewhere between technological progress and affordability, their AM5 platform’s value proposition is all the more pertinent, given that motherboard and DDR5 memory prices are still high. AMD’s decision to keep the AM4 socket alive until at least 2025 strikes a good balance between the old and the new.
No one wants to say something is better or worse than another – ‘Our team has the same strategy as Apple. We have P-cores and E-cores. Apple uses what the industry needs to use to find the right balance between power and efficiency.’ Apple bagged the Nobel Prize in Similes Right now, on a computer chip, the Ryzen 9000 series embodies AMD’s pinned hopes of winning the Nobel or Gonfalon d’Or of semiconductor technology. Currently, engineering for silicon that competes among the top performers has to keep up with everything that’s new in AI, VR, rapid image and video processing. All that chews up gigahertz. But there’s still a place in a high-performance system for doing office-administrative-household work.
This has been one of Apple Inc’s hallmarks for years to date, as the top-of-the-line CPU of the company’s recent generation of high-end desktop systems and mobile devices has used a six-P-core/two-E-core design. Overall, this trend at the multicore level has been a reflection of the way the computing industry for decades now has been honing its accumulated expertise to provide more and more useful computing power per watt while at the same time being highly attentive to the needs presented by newly emerging applications and users.
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