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MagyarAMD Tech Day | AMD confirms launch date for Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 desktop processors
Those looking forward to new desktop hardware from AMD will be pleased to know the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X will be available on July 31. Unfortunately, AMD hasn't mentioned how much each SKU will cost, but if earlier leaks are accurate, they could be a bit more affordable than their Ryzen 7000 counterparts.
AMD claims the Ryzen 9 9900X is up to 41% faster than the Intel Core i9-14900K in productivity and up to 22% faster in gaming. Similarly, the Ryzen 9 9700X is between 4% to 42% faster than the Intel Core i7-14700K in productivity benchmarks. In gaming, that ranges between 4% and 31%. Lastly, the mid-range Ryzen 5 9600X trounces the Core i5-14600K by up to 94% in productivity and 29% in gaming.
The tests were conducted on flagship motherboard platforms (Z690 for Intel, X670E for AMD), along with an unspecified amount of DDR5 6,000 MT/s memory, and a Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card. As always, these are first-party benchmarks and should be treated as such. Nevertheless, Zen 5 should help AMD cement its position in the gaming desktop market, more so after the recent debacle with high-end 13th and 14th-gen Intel Raptor Lake processors.
Despite being over two generations old, AMD's first 3D V-cache SKU, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is still considered to be one of the most powerful gaming processors on the market. AMD claims the regular Ryzen 7 9700X can deliver near-identical performance with a lower TDP. Whether or not the Ryzen 7 9700X will get a last-minute TDP boost remains to be seen.
AMD claims the Ryzen 9000 series can deliver up to 22% more performance at the same TDP. One can attribute this to the architectural changes bought forth by their new Zen 5 CPU cores and a node shrink from TSMC N6 to TSMC N4.
Unfortunately, there's no telling when the current generation of X3D processors will arrive. Rumour has it they could show up at around October, but there's no evidence to support the claim so far.
As is the case with every new generation of CPUs, the Ryzen 9000 series launch will be accompanied by new motherboards. The high-end X870E and X870 motherboards will feature at least one USB 4.0 port, while the lower-end chipsets (B850 and B840) will have to make do with USB 3.2 Gen 2. Similarly, the X series boards will support PCIe Gen 5 standards for its GPU and SSD. Lower-end SKUs will be limited to PCIe Gen 4. Lastly, AMD claims the Ryzen 9000 series can support DDR5 8,000 MT/s RAM, with the minimum spec bumped to DDR5 5,600 (JEDEC standard).
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