Earlier today, AMD officially announced the next-generation Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors. Also known as Granite Ridge, the new lineup is built on a new Zen5 architecture, which is basically based on the same 4nm process node as Zen4 but has around 16% better IPC and performance, the red chipmaker says.
Leading the charge for the 9000 Series is the Ryzen 9 9950X. The CPU comes with 16-cores, 32-threads and a combined L2 and L3 cache of 80MB. Like the 7950X, the CPU has a boost clock of 5.7GHz and a peak TDP of 170W. Moving down the line, the lineup will also see three additional SKUs: the 9900X, 9700X, and the 9600X.
The Ryzen 9 9900X introduces a 12-cores, 24-thread layout, along with a boost clock of 5.6GHz, a combined L2 and L3 Cache of 76MB, and a TDP of 120W. As for 9700X, that CPU features an 8-cores, 16-threads configuration, a 5.5GHz boost clock, a combined cache size of 40MB, and a 65W TDP. The 9600X also shares that same TDP, but features a 6-cores, 12-threads, configuration, has a max boost of 5.4GHz, and a combined cache of 38MB.
In keeping with the numerical skip, the new Ryzen 9000 Series is being paired with a new X870 and X870E chipset motherboards. Like the X670 series, they support the USB4 standard, PCIe Gen5 and NVMe, but higher AMD EXPO memory clock support.
The new Ryzen 9000 Series and X870 Series motherboards will be available starting this July. At the time of writing, Dr. Su did not specify when 3D V-Cache variants of the desktop CPUs would be arriving.
