Andrew Cunningham
AMD’s newest Ryzen processors are right here, together with the Zen 4 CPU structure that powers them. And if you happen to do not need to wade by way of a bunch of phrases, tables, and charts, the brief model is: They’re fairly good! Even when we miss the times when AMD prioritized midrange methods as a lot because it did high-end ones, and even when Intel’s choices now are extra compelling than they have been in 2020 when Zen 3 was competing in opposition to the fifth consecutive iteration of Intel’s Skylake structure, there’s quite a bit to understand right here.
For these of you ready to learn on, this piece will concentrate on two Ryzen 7000 CPUs. AMD despatched us a $299 six-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 7600X and a $699 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X. These are (respectively) the lowest- and highest-end members of the Ryzen 7000 household because it exists at present. (The corporate additionally offered a motherboard and DDR5 RAM, in addition to journey and lodging for the Ryzen 7000 unveiling and tech classes we attended in August.)
We’ll evaluate each chips to one another in addition to to varied members of the Ryzen 5000 and Twelfth-generation Intel Core CPU households to get a way of how Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4 enhance on their fast predecessors and their competitors. If you happen to’re extra eager about a high-level overview of the Zen 4 structure, the AM5 socket and 600-series chipsets that AMD can also be launching at present, and different Ryzen odds and ends, that information is out there in a separate piece on your reference and comfort.
