We are now only a few days away from the official launch of AMD’s latest 5000 series of Ryzen desktop processors. Due to be unveiled on November 5th, there is already a lot of information available about what we can expect from the CPUs, particularly with regards to the 5900X and their flagship 5950X. Importantly, the 5000 series marks the introduction of AMD’s long-awaited Zen 3 architecture, which promises significant performance gains and is supposedly “the world’s fastest processor core for the world’s fastest gaming processors”.
Zen 3 versus Zen 2
Based on a 7nm+ process, AMD’s Zen 3 architecture is a huge step up from Zen 2. Thanks to double the amount of L3 cache and a unified 8-core complex, Zen 3 is able to offer a huge reduction in latency and according to AMD delivers as much as 2.8x more performance-per-watt than competitor CPUs. The main appeal of this Zen 3 5000 series of chips, however, is a whopping 19% increase in instruction per clock (IPC) performance for PC workloads.
Meet the 5000 family
The 5000 family’s flagship 5950X is truly something to behold. With 16 cores and 32 threads, 72MB of combined cache, a 4.9GHz Boost Clock and 3.4GHz Base, it offers the highest single-thread and multi-core performance of any desktop gaming processor on the market today. What’s more, it also boasts the best multi-core performance in a mainstream CPU socket. Its sibling, the 5900X, has been dubbed the “world’s best gaming CPU”, and has 12 cores and 24 threads to speak of, along with 70MB of cache and a 4.8GHz Boost. The more modest chips of the series are the Ryzen 7 5800X and the Ryzen 5 5600X, which offer 8 cores and 16 threads, and 6 cores and 12 threads respectively.
New boards on the horizon
We’re already getting systems ready to ship by the 5000 series launch date, which will be using ASRock’s new X570D4U and X570D4U-2L2T motherboards. This latter variant will host the 5950X and comes with Dual X550 Intel NICs onboard. For those using AMD’s 500 series of boards, the Ryzen 5000 chips are compatible but a small BIOS update is required.
AMD’s Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 desktop processors will be available in our 1U PC, 1U Plus, all 2U models, our 3U PC, and our 4U Nano. If you would like to find out more about how these chips could benefit your rack mount PC, please get in touch.
