AMD’s Zen 5 processors, which will presumably be the Ryzen 8000 desktop family, are due next year, and a YouTube leaker reckons these chips could be something.
This is RedGamingTech (RGT) on YouTube, which has rather revised its expectations for the performance of the Zen 5 lately. Previously the leaker floated the idea of ​​a 25% increase in performance on Zen 4, before reducing slightly to a 20% increase being more likely.
However, RGT’s latest dump is again optimistic that AMD could reach over 20%.
RGT reminds us that the Ryzen 8000 flagship will once again be a 16-core processor and it will run with 64MB L3 cache, 80KB L1 cache per core, and 1MB L2 cache per core.
The leaker’s new information comes from what’s described as a very good source, which claims that Zen 5 will be a bigger step forward than the jump from Zen 2 to Zen 3.
This increase with Zen 3 was 19% with IPC (Instructions Per Clock), you may recall, so overall we can expect IPC gains in the low 20% zone with Zen 5. Now keep in mind Keep in mind that this IPC increase will be augmented by slightly faster clocks – maybe 200 MHz faster, maybe even 300 MHz – and we’re looking at an overall performance boost of nearly 25%.
Take all of this with a wheelbarrow of salt, naturally, as it’s still relatively early in Zen 5’s development.
A big problem for Intel?
Ryzen 8000 processors likely won’t debut until Q3 2024, or that’s the more common view from TMN sources (with X3D models to follow in early 2025). Although Q2 is mentioned as an outside prospect for the launch of the first vanilla Zen 5 models.
The problem for Intel, then, is that if AMD manages to release Zen 5 by the middle of next year, Team Blue could still wait long enough to release Arrow Lake (those desktop processors should make big gains – but won’t be here until late 2024, it’s rumored).
This could mean a situation where a relatively uninspired Raptor Lake Refresh lineup comes up against a Ryzen 8000 family, potentially delivering performance gains of 25% – or close to that. That wouldn’t be a good look for Intel, of course.
While Arrow Lake processors are expected to make big gains, some of the rumors around how much of a jump could be introduced with Intel’s 15th gen has been tempered somewhat, go through the last on the vine.
Interesting times indeed, but the scales of the 2024 desktop CPU battle seem to have just about tipped in AMD’s favor – for now.
