AMD has officially unveiled its next-gen desktop processor lineup, the Ryzen 9000 series, powered by Zen 5 architecture. The company is claiming an impressive 16% IPC gain compared to Zen 4.
Two years ago, at Computex 2022, AMD unveiled new Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors and the Socket AM5 platform, the company’s first LGA (line grid array) consumer socket. Zen 4 brought about several improvements and AMD claimed an average IPC (instructions per cycle/clock) gain of 13%. AMD was mostly right in those claims as third-party media reviews found out later.
Today, at Computex 2024, the company is unveiling the succeeding Zen 5, and this time, AMD is promising even higher performance per clock. Ryzen 9000 series is the traditional desktop lineup while AMD is also simultaneously debuting its new «Ryzen AI» 300 series of CPUs aimed towards Copilot+ AI PCs.
According to the company, Zen 5 will have an average IPC uplift of 16%. This was calculated as the geometric mean (Geomean) across various workloads with the biggest gain on AES-XTS performance which can lead to huge gains on upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 that is expected to be BitLocker-encrypted by default.
