AMD’s next-generation Zen 3 processors will be the Ryzen 5000 series. Here’s everything we know so far.
The AMD Ryzen 5000 lineup of processors has officially been announced in an online event that really demanded attention. A lot of focus was given to PC gaming, with AMD CEO Lisa Su stating that „gaming begins with AMD“. It’s no surprise, then, that the AMD Radeon 6000 event unfolded in much the same way. The new CPU lineup is led by the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, a high-end chip packed with 12 cores and 24 threads, with a whopping 4.8GHz boost clock. That’s a pretty massive generational leap over the Ryzen 9 3900X already, before you consider the boost to IPC (instructions per clock) performance. But, don’t think that the 5900X is going to be the most powerful Zen 3-based processor. AMD also revealed that beastly Ryzen 9 5950X, a 16-core,32-thread monster with a 4.
