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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)
AMD Teases Radeon RX 6000 Card Performance Numbers: Aiming For 3080?
Previously: AMD's Zen 3 CPUs Will Not be Compatible with X470, B450, and Older Motherboards
AMD Reverses BIOS Decision, Intends to Support Zen 3 on B450 and X470 Motherboards
AMD Launching 3900XT, 3800XT, and 3600XT Zen 2 Refresh CPUs: Milking Matisse
AMD Zen 3, Ryzen 4000 Release Date, Specifications, Performance, All We Know
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 10 2020, @06:37AM (1 child)
The ARM supercomputer that is the fastest supercomputer in the world is by NEC. NEC was a sparc shop who made big iron while Sun supplied the smaller stuff, and purportedly these new NEC arm processors are based on their sparc processors just using the arm instruction set. The CPU's vector units which are what gives this machine its performance (it does not use accelerators like GPUs that you find in Intel HPC clusters), are of NECs own design. But, to GP's point, it ain't Intel.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Saturday October 10 2020, @07:59AM
a supercomputer is not a computer. it's a supercomputer. it's a cluster of many computers. just because you put a bunch of computers on a network does not make each node more powerful - it just means you have more nodes. to make a node more powerful, or on the topic of this specific discussion - to make a CPU more powerful, ARM does not come even close to competing with other architectures such as Power or x86.
And by the way, Vector units, in addition to being things like SSE/MMX/etc, are what a GPU is made of.
So all you're saying here is a cluster of thousands of underpowered nodes, each running an OS, perform fast on a highly parallel workload. Which has zero to do with how fast a CPU is. A CPU, in case you didn't know, is a bunch of cores on a die. Not a cluster of networked computers.