AMD announced the Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors, featuring the “Zen 4” architecture for gaming performance and multimedia content editing.
With up to 16 cores and 32 threads, the Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors offer a 13% increase in IPC (instructions per cycle) over the “Zen 3” architecture and are the first x86 processors to be manufactured using the 5nm manufacturing process.
In doing so, they offer up to 15% higher gaming performance than the competition while remaining energy efficient. During intensive use, the Ryzen 9 7950X model (top model) is up to 47% more efficient than competing processors.
Along with the new processors, AMD introduced the AM5 desktop platform with next-generation connectivity, including dual-channel DDR5 RAM with up to 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes. Socket AM5 will be available with four chipsets: X670 Extreme, X670 (available in September), and B650E and B650 (available in October).
AMD also showed the first demo of the next-generation AMD Radeon RX graphics card (launching later this year), based on the new AMD RDNA 3 architecture. Along with the new Ryzen 9 7950X processor, the demo showed gameplay of the highly anticipated Lies of P game in 4K with Ultra settings running on a pre-production RDNA 3 GPU.
The Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors will be available at retailers and e-tailers worldwide starting September 27.