AMD is expected to lift the lid on its forthcoming Zen 5 architecture at Computex in June, and we'd be surprised if some of these CPUs didn't make it onto our best gaming CPU guide. However, this ...

Last week AMD’s Zen 5 architecture arrived to mixed reception on the desktop. KitGuru has reviewed the new Zen 5 Ryzen 5 ...

AMD took the time at Hot Chips this week to deep dive into its new Zen 5 core architecture, which is already powering the Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs for laptops, and new Ryzen 9000 ...

A recently published AMD patent suggests the upcoming AM6 socket will retain enough physical similarity to AM5 to support existing aftermarket attachments like third-party heatsinks, fans, ...

One of the little things I picked up on is that AMD designed Zen 5 to be a foundational architecture. The front end improvements were designed to do what AMD phrased as "keeping the beast fed".

AMD also grew the Zen 5 data cache by 50% (32K vs. 48KB) and doubled the maximum bandwidth to the L1 cache and FPU. Zen 5 features a 48KB 12-way L1 data cache, but maintains a 4-cycle load to keep ...

AMD AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X heads up the new Ryzen 9000 family. AMD There are three other variants here, with 12, 8, and 6 Zen 5 CPU cores. The Ryzen 7000 series launched with chips at the same tiers. AMD ...

However, the move from TSMC 5nm to 4nm has allowed AMD to significantly increase density, as it's gone from 6.5 billion transistors in Zen 4 to 8.3 billion transistors for Zen 5, an increase of 28%.

AMD isn't just cranking the CPU clock speed by 100MHz from the Ryzen 5 7600X, but the internal Zen 5 CPU architecture will provide IPC improvements, and a much lower 65W TDP is welcomed (105W on ...

AMD’s Zen 5 architecture has been a popular choice for gamers due to its outstanding performance and 3D V-Cache capacity, and now a leak suggests Zen 7 could double down on that through a new ...