AMD unveiled its 5nm Ryzen 7000 lineup as we speak, outlining the small print of 4 new fashions that span from the 16-core $699 Ryzen 9 7950X flagship, which AMD claims is the quickest CPU on the planet, to the six-core $299 Ryzen 5 7600X, the bottom bar of entry to the primary household of Zen 4 processors.
Ryzen 7000 marks the primary 5nm x86 chips for desktop PCs, however AMD’s latest chips don’t include larger core counts than the previous-gen fashions. Nevertheless, frequencies stretch as much as 5.7 GHz – a powerful 800 MHz enchancment over the prior technology – paired with an as much as 13% enchancment in IPC from the brand new Zen 4 microarchitecture. That leads to a 29% enchancment in single-threaded efficiency over the prior-gen chips. That larger efficiency additionally extends out to threaded workloads, with AMD claiming as much as 45% extra efficiency in additional demanding functions.
| Value | Cores / Threads (P+E) | Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2+L3) | TDP / Max | Reminiscence | |
| Ryzen 9 7950X | $699 | 16 / 32 | 4.5 / 5.7 | 80MB | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $549 | 12 / 24 | 4.7 / 5.6 | 76MB | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $399 | 8 / 16 | 4.5 / 5.4 | 40MB | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $299 | 6 / 12 | 4.7 / 5.3 | 38MB | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
AMD says these new chips energy big generational beneficial properties over the prior-gen Ryzen 5000 fashions, with 29% quicker gaming and 44% extra efficiency in productiveness apps. Going head-to-head with Intel’s chips, AMD claims the high-end 7950X is 11% quicker total in gaming than Intel’s quickest chip, the 12900K, and that even the low-end Ryzen 5 7600X beats the 12900K by 5% in gaming. It’s noteworthy that these claims include a couple of caveats, which we’ll cowl additional under.
The Ryzen 7000 processors come to market on September 27, and so they’ll be joined by new DDR5 reminiscence merchandise that assist new EXPO (EXtended Profiles for Overclocking) profiles. AMD’s companions will even supply a strong lineup of motherboards – the chips will snap into new Socket AM5 motherboards that AMD says it should assist till 2025+. These motherboards assist DDR5 reminiscence and the PCIe 5.0 interface, bringing the Ryzen household as much as the newest connectivity requirements.
The X670 Excessive and customary X670 chipsets arrive first in September, whereas the extra value-oriented B650 choices will come to market in October. That features the newly introduced B650E chipset that brings full PCIe 5.0 connectivity to price range motherboards, whereas the B650 chipset slots in as a lower-tier choice.
The Ryzen 7000 lineup additionally brings built-in RDNA 2 graphics to all the processors within the stack, a primary for the Ryzen household. These new iGPUs are designed to supply a primary show output, so they are not appropriate for gaming. Nevertheless, this function does enhance Ryzen’s positioning in a number of market segments.
AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 Specs and Pricing
As a reminder, the Ryzen 7000 processors include the N5 TSMC 5nm course of node for the core compute die (CCD) and use the TSMC 6nm course of for the I/O Die (IOD). You possibly can learn many extra particulars concerning the structure in our Ryzen 7000 all we all know article.
| Value | Cores / Threads (P+E) | Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2/L3) | TDP / PBP / MTP | Reminiscence | |
| Ryzen 9 7950X | $699 | 16 / 32 | 4.5 / 5.7 | 80MB (16+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 9 5950X | $546 ($799) | 16 / 32 | 3.4 / 4.9 | 74MB (8+64) | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $549 | 12 / 24 | 4.7 / 5.6 | 76MB (12+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 9 5900X | $398 ($549) | 12 / 24 | 3.7 / 4.8 | 70MB (6+64) | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $399 | 8 / 16 | 4.5 / 5.4 | 40MB (8+32) | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 7 5700X | $268 ($299) | 8 / 16 | 4.6 | 36 (4+32) | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $299 | 6 / 12 | 4.7 / 5.3 | 38MB (6+32) | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 7 5600X | $199 ($299) | 6 / 12 | 3.7 / 4.6 | 35MB (3+32) | 65W | DDR4-3200 |
Within the desk above, we are able to see the 5nm Ryzen 7000 processors in comparison with the prior-gen 7nm Ryzen 5000 processors. We’ve listed the present retail pricing for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips and included the unique launch pricing in parenthesis.
The 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X is $100 lower than the unique launch pricing of the Ryzen 9 5950X, a win for these on the hunt for the highest-end efficiency potential. The 12-core 24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X maintains the identical launch value as its predecessor, the 5900X.
Nevertheless, AMD raised the launch pricing of the eight-core 16-thread Ryzen 7 7700X by $100 over the 5700X, which is steep. AMD additionally saved the entry-level pricing on the similar $299 with the Ryzen 5 7600X, however that isn’t a whole win – this similar excessive bar for entry-level pricing wasn’t well-received with the Ryzen 5000 household. AMD says that the chips supply higher efficiency per greenback than each Intel’s competing Alder Lake and the prior-gen Ryzen 5000 chips, justifying the worth tag.
Different price issues weigh in, although. AMD’s Ryzen 7000 platform requires DDR5 reminiscence that continues to command a premium over DDR4, and that may add to the general system price. In distinction, Intel’s looming Thirteenth-Gen Raptor Lake processors have the choice for both DDR4 or DDR5 reminiscence, offering a extra value-centric choice. That stated, Intel has additionally just lately introduced that it’s going to improve its chip pricing on account of provide chain disruptions and different components, so we gained’t know the total pricing story till Intel launches Raptor Lake.
| Yr / Processor | Peak Frequency | Frequency Achieve | Course of, Structure |
| 2017 – Ryzen 7 1800X | 4.1 GHz | – | 14nm Zen 1 |
| 2018 – Ryzen 7 2700X | 4.3 GHz | +200 MHz / +5% | 12nm Zen+ |
| 2019 – Ryzen 9 3950X | 4.7 GHz | +400 MHz / +9% | 7nm Zen 2 |
| 2020 – Ryzen 9 5950X | 4.9 GHz | +200 MHz / +4% | 7nm Zen 3 |
| 2022 – Ryzen 9 7950X | 5.7 GHz | +800 MHz / +16% | 5nm Zen 4 |
Right here we are able to see AMD’s development in clock charges over the Ryzen period. As you’ll be able to see, the 800 MHz improve in clock speeds with the 7000 collection processors marks the biggest single acquire in Ryzen’s historical past. Now AMD has the best official clock velocity in the marketplace, although Raptor Lake would possibly beat it by a mere 100 MHz (extra under).
AMD has additionally dialed TDP as much as 170W for the Ryzen 9 fashions, a brand new excessive for the mainstream Ryzen household. As such, we see a 65W improve within the base TDP for the Ryzen 9 fashions and a 45W improve for Ryzen 5. Moreover, the height energy consumption (PPT) for the AM5 socket is now 230W. That is a big improve over the previous-gen Ryzen 5000’s 142W restrict.
Naturally, we’ve to view the elevated energy consumption by way of the prism of how a lot performance-per-watt the processor supplies, and right here AMD says it has made massive strides courtesy of the structure and course of node enhancements.
| Value | Cores / Threads (P+E) | Base / Increase Clock (GHz) | Cache (L2/L3) | TDP / PBP / MTP | Reminiscence | |
| Ryzen 9 7950X | $699 | 16 / 32 | 4.5 / 5.7 | 80MB (16+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Core i9-13900K / KF | ? | 24 / 32 (8+16) | 3.0 / 5.8 | 64MB (32+36) | 125W / 253W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i9-12900K / KF | $589 (Ok) – $564 (KF) | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 3.2 / 5.2 | 44MB (14+30) | 125W / 241W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Ryzen 9 7900X | $549 | 12 / 24 | 4.7 / 5.6 | 76MB (12+64) | 170W / 230W | DDR5-5200 |
| Core i7-13700K / KF | ? | 16 / 24 (8+8) | 3.4 / 5.4 | 54MB (24+30) | 125W / 253W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i7-12700K / KF | $409 (Ok) – $384 (KF) | 12 / 20 (8+4) | 3.6 / 5.0 | 37MB (12+25) | 125W / 190W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Ryzen 7 7700X | $399 | 8 / 16 | 4.5 / 5.4 | 40MB (8+32) | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $299 | 6 / 12 | 4.7 / 5.3 | 38MB (6+32) | 105W / ? | DDR5-5200 |
| Core i5-13600K / KF | ? | 14 / 20 (6+8) | 3.5 / 5.1 | 44MB (20+24) | 125W / 181W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i5-12600K / KF | $289 (Ok) – $264 (KF) | 10 / 16 (6+4) | 3.7 / 4.9 | 29.5MB (9.5+20) | 125W / 150W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Core i5-13400 / F | ? | 10 / 16 (6+4) | 3.4 / ? | 24MB | 65W / ? | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-5600 |
| Core i5-12400 / F | $199 – $167 (F) | 6 / 12 (4+0) | 4.4 / 2.5 | 25.5MB (7.5+18) | 65W / 117W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
That is how Ryzen 7000 stacks up in opposition to Intel’s present Alder Lake chips, together with info that we’ve collected about Intel’s yet-to-be-announced Raptor Lake. Remember that the Raptor Lake specs within the above desk are usually not but official.
Intel’s Alder Lake Core i9-12900K is quicker in most workloads than the present Ryzen flagship, however its next-gen 13900K provides in eight extra E-Cores, which is able to ship considerably extra efficiency in heavily-threaded workloads. Intel has additionally sprinkled in 4 extra e-cores for its 13700K and 13600K.
Intel has additionally introduced E-cores to its value-centric 13400 SKU for the primary time, which is able to make for a considerably extra aggressive chip on the decrease finish of the market the place AMD is not practically as aggressive. Once more, pricing and efficiency are the wild playing cards, and Intel has but to make any official bulletins. Nevertheless, it’s clear that Intel will use a mix of upper clock speeds and extra E-Cores to fight Ryzen 7000.
AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 Benchmarks
As with all vendor-provided benchmarks, you must take the above check outcomes with a grain of salt. AMD hasn’t but revealed the formally supported reminiscence speeds for the Ryzen 7000 collection, however the check notes do level to the corporate utilizing DDR5-6000C30 EXPO reminiscence profiles. {EDIT: AMD has now listed the supported reminiscence frequency for Ryzen 7000 as DDR5-5200, so these benchmarked configurations have been with closely overclocked reminiscence.}
These new EXPO profiles are similar to the present XMP profiles that we’re accustomed to, however they’re designed particularly for AMD processors. The profiles permit one-click reminiscence overclocking to predefined speeds. AMD’s check notes additionally say the corporate loaded these similar reminiscence profiles for Intel’s processors, however it’s unclear if these profiles are tuned for, or will even work with, Intel chips. We’re following up for extra info.
AMD’s comparisons to its previous-gen chips are spectacular, however the benchmarks in opposition to Intel’s Core i9-12900K present substantial benefits in each threaded rendering functions (57% quicker in vRay with 47% higher energy effectivity) and in single-threaded work, although we do should warning that the Geekbench 5 outcomes are solely indicative of 1 single-threaded workload. Additionally, that seems to be a non-zero axis that visually amplifies the disparity between the chips. Based on AMD’s outcomes, Ryzen 7000 is from 7% to 12% over Alder Lake on this benchmark, however we’ll have to see extra assorted head-to-head benchmarks to make a robust dedication right here.
Maybe most surprisingly, AMD claims that its lowest-end chip, the Ryzen 5 7600X, is 5% quicker in gaming than Intel’s flagship 12900K. In actual fact, AMD says the mixture of the Zen 4 structure and the TSMC 5nm node provides one of the best efficiency enhancements in decrease TDP ranges. That is smart given the standard energy/efficiency tradeoffs as you dial larger up the frequency/voltage curve.
In fact, the query is how all of this can examine to the approaching Raptor Lake processors, and if the EXPO reminiscence profiles had an impression on the Intel check programs. The overclocked reminiscence undoubtedly has an impression on the AMD programs — these checks use overclocked reminiscence that might carry eye-watering pricing for kits that may match this degree of efficiency. We’ve additionally included the check notes on the finish of the article to your perusal.
AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 IPC and Microarchitecture
AMD shared a few of the preliminary particulars of the Zen 4 structure, saying it’s an iterative advance over Zen 3. In distinction, Zen 5, which arrives in 2024, will probably be a ground-up redesign.
Zen 4 has loads of developments, although. AMD final projected an 8 to 10% IPC acquire over its Zen 3 however has now revised that determine to 13%. AMD measured this as a geometrical imply of all kinds of workloads, together with gaming. As you’ll be able to see above, the gaming benchmarks have a tendency to indicate the biggest IPC beneficial properties, whereas a few of the workloads which are extra historically used to measure IPC present extra muted beneficial properties.
AMD achieved the improved efficiency by way of a number of advances, however widening the entrance finish to raised feed the execution models and bettering department prediction account for 60% of the IPC acquire. AMD additionally elevated the op-cache by 1.5x, improved the load/retailer models, and doubled the L2 cache capability. AMD labored with TSMC to tune the 5nm course of for its design targets, leading to a specialised 15-layer N5 course of node.
AMD has enabled assist for AVX-512 directions, giving it a curious benefit over Intel, which pioneered the SIMD directions however ended up disabling them with Alder Lake. AMD described its AVX-512 implementation as a ‘double-pumped’ execution of 256-bit large directions to defray the frequency penalties usually related to Intel’s processors once they execute AVX-512 workloads. This might end in decrease throughput per clock than Intel’s technique, however the larger clocks will clearly offset not less than a few of the penalty. We’ll have to attend to study extra concerning the new implementation.
AMD additionally claims to ship higher energy effectivity in a a lot smaller package deal than Intel’s Alder Lake processors. The corporate in contrast its Zen 4 core to Intel’s Golden Cove to focus on that it’s half the dimensions at 3.84mm2, but wrings out 47% extra energy effectivity.
AMD Socket AM5 Motherboards, Chipsets and DDR5 EXPO Profiles
AMD introduced that its X670 and X670E chipsets will probably be accessible at launch, whereas the newly-announced B650E and the B650 will arrive in October. The B650E motherboards will present PCIe 5.0 to each the M.2 and GPU slots, whereas the usual B650 will solely have 5.0 to the M.2 slot, and PCIe 4.0 all over the place else. AMD says that each varieties of B-series boards will supply the identical efficiency and overclockability – the one distinction resides within the PCIe connectivity.
AMD says that motherboard pricing will drop as little as $125, however hasn’t clarified if that constitutes pricing for X- or B-series boards. We’ve way more protection of those platforms in our Ryzen 7000 explainer.
AMD hasn’t introduced the official base reminiscence velocity for Ryzen 7000, however the above slide with DDR5-5200 listed in 2022 exhibits that AMD would possibly launch merchandise with elevated base DDR5 frequencies in 2023. AMD additionally expects reminiscence makers to be prepared with EXPO-enabled kits at launch. EXPO permits one-click overclocking, and AMD says it permits latencies as little as 63ns. EXPO kits will attain as much as DDR5-6400 at launch.
| 2x16GB | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zen 3 | Zen 4 | Distinction | ||
| Default | ||||
| DDR4-3200 C16 2x16GB | $81.97 (opens in new tab) | DDR5-5200 C36 2x16GB | $161.99 (opens in new tab) | 98% |
| DDR4-3200 C14 2x16GB | $189.99 (opens in new tab) | DDR5-5200 C28 2x16GB | $219.99 (opens in new tab) | 16% |
| Max FCLK | ||||
| DDR4-4000 C20 2x16GB | $104.99 (opens in new tab) | DDR5-6000 C36 2x16GB | $224.99 (opens in new tab) | 114% |
| DDR4-4000 C14 2x16GB | $449.99 (opens in new tab) | DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB | $289.99 (opens in new tab) | -36% |
In fact, the satan with DDR5 is within the pricing particulars. Whereas we not see DDR5 shortages as we did instantly following the Alder Lake launch, DDR5 continues to command a premium. Above, you’ll be able to see some value comparisons that we generated as we speak for each customary (default) and one of the best affordable overclocked (Max FCLK) kits.
We requested AMD concerning the reminiscence pricing scenario, and the corporate tells us that it expects provide and pricing to enhance by way of the tip of the 12 months, and says that the reminiscence distributors are working to scale back pricing. AMD stated we may even probably see pricing crossover for DDR4 and DDR5 happen in the course of 2023. It’s noteworthy that the newest market projections do level to a looming reminiscence provide glut because of the latest surprising decline in PC demand, which ought to naturally assist pricing as effectively.
And the remaining is all the way down to testing the silicon to see if AMD’s claims pan out. The Ryzen 7000 chips will probably be accessible on September 27, and AMD has labored to guarantee loads of provide. If custom holds, you may see opinions in the same timeframe.
Keep tuned.
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