
Of course, there are additional changes made to the architecture as well, which we’ll get to shortly. The rest of the chips’ specifications look similar to their Ryzen 3000 series counterparts, save for the chiplet configuration, which has significant ramifications on overall latency and performance. We don’t want to post any spoilers too soon, but suffice it to say you may be itching to upgrade by the time you get to the end of this.ĪMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X, Top And Bottom We’ve had the top-end AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core / 32-thread processor and its scaled down, 12-core / 24-thread sibling, the Ryzen 9 5900X, on the test bench for a little while and have our findings laid out for you on the pages ahead. Today we get to find out how on-point AMD's messaging was for its Ryzen 5000 unveil. They say, “You can’t win ‘em all”, but that’s a heck of a lot of categories to win if you’re a desktop processor in 2020. If all of AMD’s claims proved true, the Ryzen 5000 series would be poised to lead the industry in content creation and gaming workloads, single- and multi-core performance, process technology, and power efficiency. Over the course of the announcement, however, as AMD disclosed actual performance data and ran a few live demos, it became clear the company wasn’t kidding.

Terms like “historic IPC uplift”, “fastest for gamers”, and “leading power efficiency” - among a few other superlatives - were bandied about with impunity. AMD made some bold claims when it unveiled the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series during its event early last month.
