An AMD Ryzen 9000 processor has been tested showing double-digit performance uplift compared to its predecessor. Zen 5 CPUs are revealing more of their traits each passing day, one of which is up to 5.8GHz clock speed.
Expected to release this July, Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs are all around the news these days with leaks and rumours coming out continuously. The latest of these is a leaked benchmark alongside a CPU-Z screenshot of a presumably 16-core model. This CPU managed to claim 910 points in CPU-Z’s single-core test, which puts it about 19% higher than a Ryzen 9 7950X. An especially great improvement since the latter – X3D aside – is the best AMD has to offer on the Ryzen 7000 series.
While the name of the exact model is hidden, looking at the 170W TDP and the increase in score compared to the highest Zen 4 CPU, we assume this is a Ryzen 9 9950X packing 16 cores and 32 threads.
The second leaked spec concerns the CPU frequency which is said to reach up to 5.8GHz. In other words, 100MHz higher than the 7950X. Though higher clocks are welcome as they tend to improve performance, we can agree that a slower but more stable machine is better.
Lastly, in addition to the increased IPC and frequency, Zen 5 chips are rumoured to have a redesigned L3 cache. According to AdoredTV, both Zen 5 and Zen 5 dense will use a ladder L3 fabric instead of a ring bus on their respective 8 and 16 cores CCDs. This approach should reduce latency between cores, which in turn could increase performance, at least in multi-core tasks. AMD is also tinkering with larger L2 cache variants, but it is unclear if they are Zen 4, 5, or even 6 chips.
AMD’s Ryzen 9000 processors may have many new things after all which is exciting to say the least. Fortunately, we shouldn’t have to wait long as AMD is expected to unveil them next week during Computex.