Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, has today announced the company’s next generation mainstream Ryzen processor. The new family, known as the Ryzen 5000 series, includes four parts and supports up to sixteen cores. The key element of the new product is the core design, with AMD’s latest Zen 3 microarchitecture, promising a 19% raw increase in performance-per-clock, well above recent generational improvements. The new processors are socket-compatible with existing 500-series motherboards, and will be available at retail from November 5th. AMD is putting a clear marker in the sand, calling one of its halo products as ‘The World’s Best Gaming CPU’. We have details.
They just keep kicking Intel while they’re down. This is a massive leap forward without a nanometer change.
This is nothing but good news, and if their GPUs are at least close in performance to what’s currently out there as well, I’d be extremely happy, even if there”s no proprietary effects.
With a 16 core machine from AMD I can run an entire lab for a reasonable price in a single mid size or small desktop without needing to break the bank with water cooling and massive power supplies as well.
I wish they had announced the threadripper too
I’m still waiting for the 4000 series APUs to come out. I’m looking for a Ryzen 5 4600G for a desktop I want to build. Last I heard, they might skip the 4000 series and go straight to 5000 for the desktop APUs. I don’t need a dedicated graphics card.
Your laptop will still come with an Intel, because backroom deals.
Conspiracy ! That cannot exist…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-qHOERXps&t=1m21s
Okayyy…
That’s not true! I see tons of deals on Slickdeals.net for Ryzen laptops. Actually, there are more Ryzen laptops than Intel ones. Just the other day they had a Lenovo T14 with a Ryzen 7 4750U with 16 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD for $1035 and another Lenovo Legion with a Ryzen 7 4800H for $1000 on the high-end. On the low-end, there are daily deals for $400-$600 laptops with Ryzen 5 4500U. These are all 4000 gen (Zen 2) APUs, too.
Usually there’s something off about these that make them undesirable. E.g. the Asus A15 that shows up first in a search is the 45whr battery version while most people shopping for one will want the 90whr version.
I can’t find Intel in my ARM laptop