AMD Ryzen 7000 official release date promises to be the best gaming chip

At CES back in January, AMD announced that while Ryzen 6000 laptops were on the way, desktop PCs were going to skip this generation and go straight to the Ryzen 7000. While various details were announced along the way, today the company announced all the details. You’ll be able to purchase any of four SKUs on September 27, ranging from $299 to $699.

Starting with some highlights, AMD says it beat its targets for the Ryzen 7000. It was looking to boost IPC (instructions per hour) by 8-10%, and it’s already up to 13% over Zen 3. Saying the new Ryzen 9 7950X, Which is at the top of the group, it offers 57% better content creation performance than the Intel Core i9-12900K processor.

“The AMD Ryzen 7000 Series delivers groundbreaking gaming performance, extraordinary content creation power, and advanced scalability with the new AMD Socket AM5,” said Saeed Moshkani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Client Business Unit, AMD. “With the next generation of Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors, we are proud to deliver on our promise of leadership and continuous innovation, delivering the best PC experience for gamers and creators alike.”

As you would expect, AMD brought out the standards

That’s not all. AMD compared its overall processor, saying the Ryzen 9 7950X has a 32% increase in DOTA 2 performance, a 35% increase in Shadow of the Tome Raider performance, a 6% increase in Borderlands 3 performance, and a 13% increase in CS:GO performance compared With Ryzen 9 5950X.

AMD has not only compared its new processors with Intel processors in content creation. It says Zen 4 cores are best for gaming, which is a fairly common claim for new desktop processors that Intel is sure to make when it launches its 13th generation next month. He noted the single-threaded Geekbench 5.4 score. Where the Core i9-12900K came in at 2,040, the Ryzen 5 7600X came in at 2,175, and the Ryzen 9 7950X came in at 2,275.

The company went so far as to say that the Ryzen 5 7600X, on average, offers 5% better gaming performance than the Core i9-12900K.

But what about everything else?

Obviously velocities and feed tell you, well, velocities and feed. Ryzen 9 7950X offers 16 cores with 32 threads, a boost clock of up to 5.7GHz, a the total 80MB cache (doubled L2 cache), 170W TDP. Yes, this is a significant increase in TDP, but AMD promises a significant improvement in efficiency.

With the new TSMC 5nm process as part of Zen 4, AMD has shrunk the Core + L2 area to 3.84 square millimeters, while Intel’s is 7.46 square millimeters in the Intel 7 (Alder Lake) process. With that, AMD promises 1.47 times performance per watt than Intel, a company that promises to be the industry leader in performance per watt by 2025.

Another significant improvement is support for DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0, both of which are already supported by the latest generation of Intel chips. However, one of the main differences is that the Ryzen 7000 Just Supports DDR5 memory. The company says that after a lot of time, DDR4 memory has reached the end of its life.

It’s fair to say that the death of DDR4 has been a bit put off, thanks to the lack of components driving DDR5 prices so high, and the fact that at this early stage of DDR5 development, there wasn’t much in the way of it. The advantage simply wasn’t enough to cover the difference in price.

AMD sees that changing, so it’s going with DDR5. It also announces Expo Memory, which is optimized for AM5 boards and can be overclocked. These will arrive from companies like ADATA, Corsair, Kingston, and more in November. There will be over 15 kits available at launch, which come with speeds up to DDR5-6400.

The new AM5 platform, guaranteed to use until at least 2025

Unlike Intel, which seems to rarely allow a CPU socket to run for more than two generations at this point, AMD has boasted future scrutiny as one of its value propositions. The AM4 socket has been around for over five years and has survived through five CPU architectures. It actually predates Zen architecture and the Ryzen brand.

It’s time for the AM5, which includes a 1718-pin LGA socket, including a socket power delivery of up to 230W. Most importantly, it is meant to be future-proof, including DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.

PCIe 5.0 provides twice the bandwidth of its predecessor. That means faster SSD drives, which is great when we’re talking about things like DirectStorage. But besides other things, it can get faster graphics. AMD has four platforms out of the gate: the X670, X670 Extreme, B650, and B650 Extreme. They all offer PCIe 5.0 storage, but Extreme Options also offer PCIe 5.0 graphics.

The AM5 platform supports AM4 coolers, so while you have to swap out your breadboard, you should be able to keep your machine cool.

As for how long AMD plans to use AM5, it should be for at least three more years. The company promises to use the new platform until at least 2025.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Pricing and Availability

You’ll be able to get an AMD Ryzen 7000 processor starting September 27. There are four SKUs, with the following prices:

AMD Ryzen 7000 processors with the company’s new 3D V-Cache technology will be available later in 2022, but there’s no exact date yet.