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AMD announced its first Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 series) desktop CPUs on October 8.
Compared to Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000 series) CPUs, the Zen 3 microarchitecture has higher boost clocks and around 19% higher instructions per clock. A unified core complex die (CCD) allows 8 cores to access up to 32 MB of L3 cache, instead of two groups of 4 cores accessing 16 MB each, leading to lower latency and more cache available for any particular core. TDPs are the same as the previous generation, leading to a 24% increase in performance per Watt.
AMD estimates a 26% average increase in gaming performance at 1080p resolution, with the Zen 3 CPUs beating or tying Intel's best CPUs in most games.
Ryzen 9 5950X, 16 cores, 32 threads, boosts up to 4.9 GHz, 105W TDP, $800.
Ryzen 9 5900X, 12 cores, 24 threads, boosts up to 4.8 GHz, 105W TDP, $550.
Ryzen 7 5800X, 8 cores, 16 threads, boosts up to 4.7 GHz, 105W TDP, $450.
Ryzen 5 5600X, 6 cores, 12 threads, boosts up to 4.6 GHz, 65W TDP, $300.
You may have noticed that these prices are exactly $50 more than the launch prices for the Ryzen 3000 equivalents released in 2019. The 5600X is the only model that will ship with a bundled cooler.
The CPUs will all be available starting on November 5. AMD will stream an announcement for its RX 6000 series of high-end GPUs on October 28.
See also: AMD Zen 3 Announcement by Lisa Su: A Live Blog at Noon ET (16:00 UTC)
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 09 2020, @03:16PM
That's the gold price and the iron price. I wouldn't expect huge price drops on Ryzen 3000 chips right now since the launch prices of Ryzen 5000 are higher, creating a gap in the first place. Ryzen 5000 prices will probably drop by March, when Intel's Rocket Lake is released. Until then, AMD has free reign.
The efficiency gain seems to be a direct result of the performance gain (IPC and clock gain) at nearly the same power usage. Process node benefits (it's assumed to be TSMC N7+) were put into raising the clock speeds. Though undervolting/underclocking your CPU could show great efficiency benefits.
For you, if your motherboard is compatible, you could consider getting a Zen 3 with higher core count in 2022+ after Zen 4 is out. 8 cores for better gaming performance at that time (games will start using at least 8 cores because of the consoles), or 12+ cores if it matters.
AMD is definitely aiming for RTX 3080 performance with its top Big Navi GPU. It could land just short of that, or into RTX 3090 territory (since the gap between 3080 and 3090 is not much).
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