First Zen 5 Chips
New desktop and mobile chips put AMD back in charge
TECH COMPANIES love launching new products at trade shows, and at this year’s Computex, AMD treated us to a major chip announcement: the first Zen 5 processors. There are six new Zen 5 processors, four desktop versions, and two mobile, codenamed Granite Ridge and Strix Point. Zen 5 architecture offers, according to AMD, an IPC (Instructions Per Clock) gain of 16 percent over Zen 4, which, as generational IPC bumps go, is about average for a change of Zen architecture.
There had been some speculative rumors about a higher IPC than this, with 30 percent touted. This would have been amazing, but proved spurious. As it is, the bump is enough to allow AMD to offers “the fastest consumer desktop per formance in the world”, as CEO Lisa Su proclaimed from the main stage. They aren’t the best gaming chips, however—that honor still falls to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D with its 144MB of cache. We expect a V-Cache Zen 5 chip this fall.