During their opening keynote at Computex 2024, AMD introduced their intention to launch a pair of recent Ryzen 5000 processors for his or her legacy AM4 platform. The new chips, each getting the XT suffix, would be the Ryzen 9 5900XT, a 16 core Zen Three half, whereas the Ryzen 7 5800XT might be an eight core Zen 3.
The new chips are meant to underscore AMD’s ongoing dedication to supporting their client platforms over a number of years. And whereas the specification modifications are moderately minor general – the Zen Three CPU structure has lengthy since been taken so far as it could possibly cheap go – it does give AMD an opportunity to refresh the platform by slinging {hardware} at new worth factors. AMD did one thing very comparable for the Ryzen 3000 technology with the late-model Ryzen 3000 XT chips.
| AMD Ryzen 5000XT Series Processors (Zen 3) |
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| AnandTech | Cores / Threads |
Base Freq |
Turbo Freq |
L2 Cache |
L3 Cache |
TDP |
| Ryzen 9 5950X | 16C / 32T | 3.Four GHz | 4.9 GHz | eight MB | 64 MB | 105 W |
| Ryzen 9 5900XT | 16C / 32T | 3.Three GHz | 4.eight GHz | eight MB | 64 MB | 105 W |
| Ryzen 9 5900X | 12C / 24T | 3.7 GHz | 4.eight GHz | 6 MB | 64 MB | 105 W |
| Ryzen 7 5800XT | 8C / 16T | 3.eight GHz | 4.eight GHz | Four MB | 32 MB | 105 W |
| Ryzen 7 5800X | 8C / 16T | 3.eight GHz | 4.7 GHz | Four MB | 32 MB | 105 W |
We’ve devoted many column inches protecting Zen Three and the Ryzen 5000 sequence since they launched in late 2020, so there is not something new so as to add right here. Zen Three is not AMD’s newest and best, however the platform as an entire is kind of low cost to provide, making it a viable finances providing for brand new builds, or providing one final improve for previous builds.
The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16 core half, and is not to be confused with the Ryzen 9 5900X, which is a 12 core half. It ships with a peak turbo clockspeed of 4.8GHz, 100 MHz decrease than the top-tier Ryzen 9 5950X. This makes it is XT designation considerably of a misnomer in comparison with earlier generations of XT chips, though it is clear that AMD has boxed themselves right into a nook with their naming scheme, as they each want a method to designate that it is a new chip, and but nonetheless place it under the 5950X.
Looking on the second chip, now we have the Ryzen 7 5800XT. This is an eight core half that does enhance on its predecessor, providing a 4.8GHz max turbo clock that’s 100MHz greater than the Ryzen 7 5800X’s. Both chips in any other case share the identical traits, together with 6 MB of L2 cache and 32 MB of L3 cache, and all 4 of the chips – together with the 2 new XT sequence and the corresponding X sequence chips – all include a 105 Watt TDP.
In phrases of motherboard compatibility, the entire AM4 motherboards that at present assist the Ryzen 5000 sequence are additionally suitable with the Ryzen 5000XT sequence, though customers are prone to must carry out a firmware replace to make sure most compatibility; they’re the identical chips, however the microcodes are probably totally different.
AMD has supplied some gaming efficiency figures evaluating the Ryzen 9 5900XT to Intel’s 13th Gen Core i7-13700Okay. It does supply very modest but marginal positive aspects in video games by as much as 4%; it isn’t mind-blowing, however the worth could possibly be the decisive issue right here.
Regarding worth, AMD hasn’t disclosed something official but forward of the anticipated launch of the Ryzen 5000XT sequence chips in July. It’s onerous to make a case for a pair of chips to be thought-about a fully-fledged sequence, nevertheless it does open up the doorways for AMD to maybe launch extra 5000XT sequence chips sooner or later.
