During an event yesterday, AMD announced their much-anticipated Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs that are based on their newest Zen 3 architecture. At launch, AMD introduced 4 new CPUs in the series – the Ryzen 9 5950x, Ryzen 9 5900x, Ryzen 7 5800X and the Ryzen 5 5600X, which range from 6 cores/12 threads all the way to 16 cores/32 threads.
With the new Zen 3 architecture, AMD is claiming an impressive 19% improvement in IPC over the previous generation Zen 2 based CPUs, which were already excellent. The architectural improvements also include reduction in latency in cores and cache communication and another upgrade is the doubling of directly accessible L3 cache per core.
| Model | Cores/ Threads |
TDP (Watts) |
Boost/Base freq. (GHz) | Total Cache | Price |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | 16C/32T | 105W | Up to 4.9 / 3.4 | 72MB | $799 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 12C/24T | 105W | Up to 4.8 / 3.7 | 70MB | $549 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | 8C/16T | 105W | Up to 4.7 / 3.8 | 36MB | $449 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 6C/12T | 65W | Up to 4.6 / 3.7 | 35MB | $299 |
The new CPUs are drop-in compatible with the 500-series motherboards and should be available to 400-series motherboards with a BIOS update. All AMD Ryzen 5000 series will go on sale from November 5th, starting a price of $299 (Approx. Rs. 21,880).
Commenting on the launch, Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, client business unit, AMD said:
Our commitment with each generation of our Ryzen processors has been to build the best PC processors in the world. The new AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors extend our leadership from IPC, power efficiency to single-core, multi-core performance and gaming.
Today, we are extremely proud to deliver what our community and customers have come to expect from Ryzen processors – dominant multi-core and single-core performance and true gaming leadership – all within a broad ecosystem of motherboards and chipsets that are drop-in ready for AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors.