Arguably most exciting out of AMD's slew of Computex 2024 announcements is finally making official the Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" processors built atop the new [1]Zen 5 cores.

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AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors will begin shipping in July along with the [3]Ryzen AI 300 mobile series as the first Zen 5 products. The Zen 5 core is bringing improved branch prediction accuracy and latency, higher throughput with wider pipelines and vectors, and a deeper window size.

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AMD is talking up to 2x the instruction bandwidth, data bandwidth, and AI performance -- including better AVX-512 throughput compared to Zen 4 where AVX-512 was originally introduced on the AMD side.

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Across games, web browsers, and creator workloads, AMD is talking up around a 16% IPC uplift with Zen 5 compared to Zen 4. With Blender, for example, the open-source rendering software is seeing around 23% higher performance over Zen 4.

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The flagship SKU announced at Computex is the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X that is 16 cores / 32 threads with a 5.7GHz boost frequency and 80MB L2+L3 cache while having a 170 Watt TDP. AMD's benchmarks under Windows showing the Ryzen 9 9950X far exceeding the Intel Core i9 14900K... Of course, we'll be putting the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series under the Linux microscope at Phoronix when the time comes.

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With the Ryzen 9000 series also comes the new X870/X870E chipsets as a new option while existing AM5 motherboards with a BIOS flash can work with the new processors. Going for the X870/X870E motherboards means USB 4.0 is standard across all of them, PCIe Gen 5 on graphics and NVMe for all motherboards, and higher AMD EXPO memory support.

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Alongside the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X flagship, the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X, 8-core Ryzen 9 9700X, and 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X are also releasing in July. Stay tuned for Linux performance tests and benchmarks of these new AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) desktop processors. AMD isn't announcing any 3D V-Cache "X3D" processor models yet based on Zen 5 but will likely do so in the months ahead.

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Exciting times ahead and the figures shown by AMD are exciting for the Zen 5 uplift over Zen 4. I am very eager to get my hands on Zen 5 and begin the Linux support exploration and benchmarking. AMD also announced some of the basic details on the upcoming [10]AMD 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors coming in H2'2024.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Zen+5

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_1_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-300-Series-Zen-5

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_2_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_3_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_4_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_5_lrg

[8] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_7_lrg

[9] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=computex-2024-amd&image=amd_ryzen_9000_8_lrg

[10] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-5th-Gen-EPYC-Turin-192-Core