AMD Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 Preview

During its Computex keynote in early June, AMD announced the first two processor families using the all-new Zen 5 core: the Ryzen 9000 for desktops and the Ryzen AI 300 for laptops. AMD released a bunch of additional details about the two new CPU families last week during its Tech Day 2024 event. You can read all about them in this article.

AMD already announced last month that Zen 5 cores are 16 percent faster on average than Zen 4 cores at the same clock speed. But how is this performance improvement achieved? We’ll get into that in more depth on the next page. Particularly interesting is that AMD sees Zen 5 as a “new foundation” for future core iterations and yet is making some radically different choices than Intel is with its latest P cores. For example, with AMD, you still get SMT support and even full AVX-512 support, two things Intel is giving up.

Later in this article you’ll find more details about the actual products that will be released. For example, AMD has released the first benchmarks for its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, explaining how it tried to make the new chips run cooler and what you can expect from overclocking options: from starting with the new Curve Shaper to cooling with LN2.

The new laptop CPUs of course use Zen 5 cores, with or without the more economical Zen 5c variant, but they also feature a new RDNA 3.5 IPU and XDNA 2 NPU, which with 50Tops should be more powerful than the fastest NPUs from Qualcomm and Intel. More details and first benchmarks can be found on the Ryzen AI 300 series page.

Finally, AMD also offers a glimpse into the future by sharing its CPU roadmap for next year.