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AMD has announced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which is an 8-core 5800X Zen 3 desktop CPU with additional "3D V-Cache" (96 MiB total L3 cache) and slightly lower clock speeds (and no ability to overclock by manually adjusting frequency or voltage). The CPU will launch on April 20 at an MSRP of $449. Previously released Zen 3 CPUs have gotten price cuts in recent months.
AMD also announced official support for Ryzen 5000 CPUs on older motherboards, provided that they receive a BIOS update:
[In] a move as equally unexpected as launching new Zen 2 SKUs in 2022, AMD is also finally relenting on enabling official support for Ryzen 5000 processors on AMD's older 300 series chipsets. Though the company has long declined to support the newest Zen 3 chips on these older chipsets, almost a year and a half later AMD is finally changing their tune, and will be releasing (and supporting) the necessary code to motherboard manufacturers to add support for the chips in new BIOSes. To that end, Ryzen 5000 support should start appearing in beta BIOSes in April and May.
AMD claims that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D will be 15% faster at gaming on average than the Ryzen 9 5900X:
In either case, AMD has decided to go after the gaming market with their beefy 8-core CPU. As detailed by the company back at CES 2022 and reiterated in today's announcement, AMD has found that the chip is 15% faster at gaming than their Ryzen 9 5900X. As our own Dr. Ian Cutress noted at the time: "The extra cache is meant to help with communications with discrete graphics cards, offering additional performance above the regular R7 5800X. Productivity workloads are less likely to be affected, and for those users the regular Ryzen CPUs are expected to be better."
In addition to the 5800X3D, AMD announced 6 "new" CPUs ranging from $100 to $300 in order to combat Intel's Alder Lake desktop CPU lineup.
Ryzen 7 5700X ($299): 8-core Zen 3, 32 MiB L3 cache
Ryzen 5 5600 ($199): 6-core Zen 3, 32 MiB L3 cache
Ryzen 5 5500 ($159): 6-core Zen 3, 16 MiB L3 cache (may be a Cezanne APU with graphics disabled)
Ryzen 5 4600G ($154): 6-core Zen 2, Vega 7 graphics, 8 MiB L3 cache (this was previously an OEM-only Renoir APU)
Ryzen 5 4500 ($129): 6-core Zen 2, 8 MiB L3 cache
Ryzen 3 4100 ($99): 4-core Zen 2, 4 MiB L3 cache
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday March 17 2022, @03:52PM (1 child)
looking to upgrade my 5600g to something better, mostly looking to USE pci4 and top ssd to get that super high i/o speed.
if you go with a non apu chip in the 5k series, pci4 is full speed but the G chips run at half for some reason.
no point spending on pci4 and high end ssd with an apu chip.
hoping this gets fixed in the next rev. hoping this is the next rev ;)
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 17 2022, @04:39PM
No. If you're looking to keep using an APU on your motherboard, 5700G is the only upgrade and has the same I/O limitations. And I don't think going to 5700G for 8 cores when you already have a 5600G is worth it for most people.
Then there is the recently launched Rembrandt APU. It is implied that it will come to desktop [tomshardware.com] (AM5 socket, new motherboard needed). If it does, it will support PCIe 4.0 SSD speeds:
https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/USB4-1.png [kitguru.net]
https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Platform.png [kitguru.net]
With the upcoming Zen 4 desktop CPUs on the AM5 socket (7000-series, Raphael, non-G), you will see PCIe 5.0 support and likely a small amount of graphics cores [videocardz.com]. So if you really don't want to use a discrete GPU and don't care about the graphics performance, that might be a better option. But everything from the CPUs to the platform (new motherboards and DDR5-only) will be expensive.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]