In one battle in the current round of the never-ending war, AMD beat its old rival Intel: it was ahead of it by a few weeks, apparently, in the announcement of the new generation processors. It might not add points to her in the real battle for the customers’ pockets, but maybe in the luxury aspect.
Be that as it may, the company announced the first four desktop processors based on the company’s new Zen 4 cores and these are X-series processors that will come to the computers without a graphics chip, probably with the understanding that whoever buys them will choose to add a dedicated graphics card anyway.
Zen 4 brings to the table support for DDR5 memories and support for PCIe 5.0 channels that serve the modern video cards mainly, and the processors are manufactured as in the previous generation in 5 nanometer lithography, and they require motherboards with the new AM5 bracket. The new processors also support a new technology that the company calls AMD Expo that the company says allows memories and other components to be easily accelerated to achieve higher game speeds.
The new processor performance, according to AMD, offers a 29% improvement in the work of a single core on average compared to the generation of Ryzen 5000 processors, and the company’s people even claimed that the Ryzen 5 7600X, the lowest processor on the short list of four processors, is good at 1080p gaming at 5 % compared to Intel’s current flagship processor (Intel), the Core i9-12900K – they also presented a Geekbench 5 score with single core scores of 2,275 points versus 2,040 points of the processor from Intel.
They also provided a comparison of the same processor against the equivalent processor in the previous generation, the Ryzen 5 5600X, in 1080p tests in a series of games to show the improvement that the Ryzen 7000 generation should provide.
The new processors should hit the market at the end of September, probably after Intel’s announcement of its 13th generation Core processors. The price of the most powerful processor, Ryzen 9 7950X, with its 16 cores and its turbo speed that can reach up to 5.7 GHz, will be $699, and the other prices in descending order will be $549, $399 and $299.