AMD has just announced its next-gen Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, which will be officially released in July 2024. In addition, the red team shared some first-party gaming benchmarks, so let’s take a look at them.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU will be the high-end CPU model, featuring two Zen 5 CCDs and a single IOD. The CPU will have 16 cores, 32 threads, and a max boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz. It will also come with 80MB of cache and will have a TDP of 170W.

The next Zen 5 CPU is the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X. This CPU has 12 cores and 24 threads. Its max boost clock will be at 5.6Ghz. It will also come with 76MB of cache and will have a TDP of 120W.

The third Zen5 CPU is the Ryzen 7 9700X. This CPU will have 8 cores and will support 16 threads, with a max boost clock of up to 5.5 GHz. It will also have 40MB of cache and a TDP of 65W.

Finally, we have the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU which will feature 6 cores and 12 threads. This CPU will have a max boost clock of up to 5.40 GHz and will come with 38MB of cache and it will have 65W TDP.

AMD has also shared some Zen 5 core architecture improvements. These new CPUs will come with improved branch prediction accuracy and latency, higher throughput with wider pipelines and vectors and deeper window size across the design for more parallelism.

When it comes to gaming performance, AMD claims that the high-end Ryzen 9 9950X will be between 4% and 23% faster than the Intel Core i9 14900K. So, if you already own a high-end CPU, you can safely skip this generation. From what we can see, we can’t expect major performance improvements.

AMD will officially release its Zen5 CPUs in July 2024!