The Game is On!

Last week AMD showed their new Ryzen 5000 series processors! They are using a new Zen 3 architecture and amazingly the same chip socket they used for the 3000 series, so in theory you could be able to put a new chip in your old motherboard (If you have a 400 series motherboard). The new Ryzen 9 is featuring a 19% increase in performance according to AMD. This should put them on the top against Intel now, but we have to remember that Intel has not released a new processor yet. 

Also AMD is claiming that they have eliminated the individual cache memory for each core, making all cores share a cache memory directly, and this has a significant improvement in performance. The next image shows what they mean by this. 

According to AMD the new Ryzen 9 offers: "

• The highest single-thread performance of any desktop gaming processor5
• The most multi-core performance of any desktop gaming processor and any desktop processor in a mainstream CPU socket1 

The 12 core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X offers the best gaming experience by:

• Average of 7% faster in 1080p gaming across select game titles than the competition7

Average of 26% faster in 1080p gaming across select titles generationally"

The prices and more data for future builds can be found in the table bellow.

MODEL	CORES/ THREADS	TDP (Watts)	BOOST9/BASE FREQ. (GHz)	TOTAL CACHE	COOLER	SEP (USD)	EXPECTED AVAILABILITY
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X	16C/32T	105W	Up to 4.9 / 3.4	72MB	N/A	$799	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X	12C/24T	105W	Up to 4.8 / 3.7	70MB	N/A	$549	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X	8C/16T	105W	Up to 4.7 / 3.8	36MB	N/A	$449	November 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X	6C/12T	65W	Up to 4.6 / 3.7	35MB	Wraith Stealth	$299	November 5, 2020

For more information visit: https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2020-10-08-amd-launches-amd-ryzen-5000-series-desktop-processors-the-fastest-gaming