AMD Announces Ryzen 9950X, 9900X, 9700X, 9600X processors (ZEN5)
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CPC_RedDawn
65W for the 9700X is crazy for an 8/16 cpu at those clocks, that thing is gonna sell so fast.
Conan The Barbarian
Undying
Do we know the price yet? 🙄
wavetrex
No... but probably not more than Zen4 launch prices, since the increase in performance is marginal.
Most likely not worth the upgrade over Zen4 owners, but quite a major difference vs older CPUs
mackintosh
The leaks were saying the same MSRP. Nothing compelling about any of these if you're already on a 7800X3D as I assume most enthusiast gamers would be. Oh well, wake me up when the 9800X3D drops.
Silva
5.7Ghz Max Boost Clock is crazy. When we got to 5Ghz I thought we hit a limit and we're getting close to 6Ghz now.
170W TDP is absurd though. CPUs are following GPUs and I don't like this trend.
Horus-Anhur
170W on a 16 core 32 thread part is nothing special.
That's 10.6W per core.
And the 9700X, with 8C16T is only 65W.
For the performance they are delivering, this is very good efficiency.
Venix
All nice and danty.... But why they named a 16 core part 5900xt instead of 5950xt ?
Horus-Anhur
MonsterMX99
RIP Intel
mohiuddin
Me too is ready for eating popcorn .
Waiting (on my ryzen 2600) 😛 for 3rd party benchmarks of R9 9950x ; with plans to upgrade to a Ryzen 5600 when the 9950x releases so that it drives down the price of 7800x3d causing price drop of 5700x3d resulting in a surge of 2nd hand Ryzen 5600s 🙂
H83
So it seems the focus of these new CPUs is efficiency because the clocks and cache are basically the name.
Nice improvement but no point in getting the new 9700X over my current 7700X.
I'll wait for the X3D version.
Hilbert, some parts of the article are repeated.
Solfaur
I'm really glad AMD is still doing well in the CPU department. Can't wait to see the X3D models later.
Vananovion
Me too. 9800X3D is quite possibly going to get me off AM4.
I guess these types of comments are just part of the folklore nowadays 😀.
geogan
Of course I'd love to upgrade my 5950X to the Ryzen 9950X... if it wasn't for the whole trouble of the new expensive motherboard swap and DDR5 RAM replacement on top of it... spent enough on 64GB of DDR4 to want to do it again o_O
AuerX
Yawn...
maybe upgrade at AM6
TLD LARS
What do you mean? The 9700X is never going to hit the boost clock listed the same time as it is hitting the TDP listed.
Do not expect more then 4900-5300MHz on all cores at 65W.
nevcairiel
The 9950X and the 7950X have identical paper specs, kinda boring tbh. I would've loved an increase in baseline cache which a die shrink might allow (from a marketing perspective, increasing L3 baseline would partially undermine the X3D though, so who knows if that argument plays into that).
And releasing X3D 6+ months later just makes you feel bad.
We'll see how actual benchmarks play out, but so far an average of 15% uplift doesn't sound extremely exciting.
mackintosh
They did the bare minimum, which suggests they expect Arrow Lake to be a turd.
CPC_RedDawn
More L3 cache is the big one, 15% IPC, and then the architecture improvements on top of that.
Just because most numbers are the same doesn't mean its not a decent enough bump in overall performance.
15% is nothing to moan about, anyone remember the Intel 4 core tick tock days of getting maybe 4-5% if you were lucky. I surely do, and I never want to go back to those times.
EDIT:
I expect the X3D variants to have more 3d cache than previous 3d chips and maybe a new type of memory too. Hence why we see increased cache on these none x3d parts.
