AMD Ryzen 9000

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launches on 31 July

AMD has announced the retail launch date for its new Zen 5 processors. There are four CPUs in the new Ryzen 9000 series. One of them is the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X flagship CPU. AMD has yet to announce the official pricing for the CPUs but the company says they will launch on 31 July.

The flagship CPU is based on AMD’s AMD5 platform. The lineup includes the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700 X and Ryzen 5 9600X. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-core, 32-thread CPU with 80MB of L2 and L3 cache and a 5.7GHz boost clock.

AMD says the Ryzen 9 9950X promises around a 16% instruction per cycle (IPC) uplift in performance over the previous generation Ryzen CPU. The company promises major gains in productivity and gaming.

The Ryzen 9 9950X bodes “really well against the competition” says AMD. It has shown a 56% improvement in Blender against Intel’s Core i9-14900K. In addition, it has a 21% improved performance in Cinebench R24 against the same Intel CPU.

In terms of gaming, the Ryzen 9 9950X shows a 5% frame rate improvement over the 14900K in Borderlands 3 and a 23% improvement in Horizon Zero Dawn.

We’ll hopefully have pricing for these new CPUs soon. We also don’t know if the range will launch in South Africa at the same time as the US counterparts.

Marco is the owner and founder of GLITCHED. South Africa’s largest gaming and pop culture website. GLITCHED quickly established itself with tech and gaming enthusiasts with on-point opinions, quick coverage of breaking events and unbiased reviews across its website, social platforms, and YouTube channel.

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