AMD Zen 5 Microarchitecture Boosts Performance in Ryzen AI 300 Series for Mobile and Ryzen 9000 for Desktops

Tech & AI | July 15, 2024, 8:34 a.m.

At Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture, introducing two new client platforms: the Ryzen AI 300 series for laptops and the Ryzen 9000 series for desktops. The Ryzen AI 300 series, powered by Zen 5 cores, boasts improvements in AI and graphics performance, including a new XDNA 2 NPU promising 50 TOPS. The Ryzen 9000 series also utilizes Zen 5, offering significant IPC improvements over Zen 4. Notable features of Zen 5 include enhanced instruction cache latency, expanded data bandwidth, and a full AVX-512 data path. AMD aims for up to 16% IPC uplift with Zen 5. The Ryzen AI 300 series showcases impressive performance with chips like the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 365, while the Ryzen 9000 series for desktops, launching on July 31st, includes models like the Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X. AMD introduces a new overclocking feature, Curve Shaper, enhancing voltage curve fine-tuning. In-house performance tests boast gains over Intel's 14th Gen processors. As AMD commits to long-term AM5 platform support until 2027, the Zen 5 microarchitecture brings notable advancements in performance and efficiency, setting a new benchmark in CPU technology.