At 7:00 a.m. Beijing time on August 30, AMD announced the highly anticipated AMD Raider 7000 series processors and the Zen 4 architecture at a press conference titled “together we advance_PCs” and announced AMD’s development plans for the coming period.
The 7000 series processors, including the Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 700X and Ryzen 5 7600X, are based on TSMC’s 5nm process and feature the new Zen 4 architecture.
The Zen 4 architecture exceeds the original preset goal of increasing the clock instruction count (IPC) by 10%. The new architecture increases the IPC by 13%, and the Zen 4 architecture improves single-threaded performance by 29% and multi-threaded performance by over 35% compared to the previous generation Zen 3 architecture.
And thanks to the partnership with TSMC, the Zen 4 architecture also features higher clock speeds and better thermal design, with more than 25% performance improvement per watt over the previous generation.
It is worth noting that the Zen 4 architecture will also add support for the AVX-512 instruction set. Intel just announced in March this year that the instruction set would be disabled in subsequent production of the 12th generation Core processors. Previously Intel had found that running such instruction sets would make the CPU power consumption increase significantly.
Su Zifeng said that the 7000 series Rex scores on the Geek bench exceeded Intel’s flagship processor i9-12900K.
At the same time, Su also claimed that the 7000 Series Rex flagship model, Ryzen 9 7950X, is by far the most powerful gaming CPU in the world.
Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores and 32 threads. With a base frequency of 4.5GHz and a peak frequency of 5.7GHz, it is 800MHz higher than its predecessor and 200MHz higher than Intel’s 12th generation Core flagship processor, the i9-12900KS.
In terms of actual performance, AMD claims that in gaming scenarios, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X will be able to provide a 35% performance boost compared to the Core i9-12900K in games such as Tomb Raider. And in scenarios running v-ray, the Ryzen 9 7950X is 62 percent faster than the Intel period CPU i9-12900K and delivers 47 percent more performance per watt.
The Ryzen 9 7900K, on the other hand, is equipped with 12 cores, 24 threads, and a maximum frequency of 5.6GHz, positioning it on par with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, and at the same price as the latter, so it can be said to be an increase in volume without an increase in price.
The entry model Ryzen 5 7600X is equipped with 6 cores and 12 threads. With a base frequency of 4.7GHz and a maximum frequency of 5.3GHz, AMD claims that this entry-level chip still has a 5% performance increase compared to Intel’s 12th generation Core flagship products.
The flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X is priced at $699, the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X at $549, the Ryzen 7 7700X at $399 and the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X at $299.
AMD said the Raider 7000 series processors will be available on September 27.
AMD also debuted a new GPU with the RDNA 3 architecture at the event, which, according to Su Zi Feng, takes a small-chip approach to stacking and uses TSMC’s 5nm process to increase performance per watt by 50% compared to existing Radeon GPUs.
A demo video of a game using Ryzen 9 7950X with RNDA 3 architecture GPU was shown live, but no further details of the GPU’s performance in the game were announced.
In addition to the product announcements, AMD also showed off its blueprint for the coming period.
At the launch AMD showed a more detailed roadmap of the Zen architecture. According to the roadmap, AMD will release the Zen 5 architecture processor with 4nm/3nm process in 2024.
Su Zifeng also said that in the next few quarters, AMD will also release Zen4C, RDNA3 and XDNA three new architectures.
