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AMD officially announces its Ryzen 5000 CPUs, releasing on November 5th


AMD has officially announced its Ryzen 5XXX CPUs. As we’ve already reported, these CPUs promise to offer the best single-thread performance in PC games. AMD also claims that its high-end model will surpass Intel’s competitor, the i9 10900K.

AMD Zen 3 promises to have a higher max boost, significant IPC uplift, new core layout, and new cache topology. In fact, AMD claims that Zen 3 offers a 19% increase in single-thread scenarios over the previous Zen CPUs.

AMD will release four models of Zen 3 on November 5th. These four models are: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X will have six CPU cores, will support 12 threads, and can turbo boost at 4.6Ghz. It will also have 35MB of total cache, and a 65W TDP. This CPU will be priced at $299.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X will have eight CPU cores, will support 16 threads, and can turbo boost at 4.7Ghz. It will also have 36MB of total cache, and a 105W TDP. This CPU will be priced at $449.

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X will have twelve CPU cores, will support 24 threads, and can turbo boost at 4.8Ghz. It will also have 70MB of total cache, and a 105W TDP. This CPU will be priced at $299.

Lastly, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X will have sixteen CPU cores, will support 32 threads, and can turbo boost at 4.9Ghz. It will also have 72MB of total cache, and a 105W TDP. This CPU will be priced at $799.

Overall, AMD plans to beat Intel in every possible scenario, so it will be interesting to see how the blue team will respond!

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