AMD Talks Ryzen 9000, AM5 Support, Zen 5, AI & More

At Computex 2024 Adam talked with Donny Woligroski, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at AMD, about the announcements from Dr. Lisa Su's keynote, including new AM4 CPUs, the details around the Ryzen 9000 launch, Zen 5 improvements, mobile processors naming scheme, AI performance, and more.

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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
00:31 - New AM4 CPUs
02:40 - AM5 Support
03:38 - Ryzen 9000 CPUs
07:13 - X870E & X870
10:53 - Ryzen 9000 Pricing & Availability
11:17 - New Ryzen Mobile Naming
14:56 - The Importance Of Ryzen AI
16:46 - Are TOPs Important?
19:23 - Zen 5 Mobile Benefits
22:45 - Handheld Gaming Expectations
24:26 - Outro

#amd #computex2024 #interview

[Marbeary]

Am4 lasting longer than most relationship current time.

[craig]

Love it when you chat to really well-informed and connected people for us.

[rhoharane]

As someone who lives in a hot country, I welcome CPUs with lower TDPs.

[lil----lil]

AM5. DDR-5, PIC-E 5, ZEN-5. RTX 5000. Yep, all the ducks have lined up and this is the year for upgrade!

[deansmits]

Improving x3d, eh? That may be interesting. I can only speculate, but perhaps they were able to improve the voltage parity to allow higher clocks? Or more consistent uplift game to game?

[TennessseTimmy]

So relaxed and calm, what an awesome talk!!! 🤠

[BTCKYLE]

If you are a gamer, keep in mind the X3D variants are still yet to be announced.

[GraveUypo]

i'm pretty okay with my 5800x3d, no need to upgrade anytime soon. i could probably skip the entire am5 platform on this thing to be honest. but the reason i probably won't is I/O. The MOBO i have is kinda holding me back sometimes.

[Quast]

After saying 870 chips will support USB4 I would have hooked into there and asked with which speed (40Gbps?)! Would be good to know what's being marketed there a feature set or the speed too...

[spiritsavage]

PCWorld always bringing the best news. Most of what i wanted to know about the mobile chips is covered here! One question though, are we looking at better battery life in the AI300 as well?

[SaccoBelmonte]

We really need to know what is the sweet spot for RAM speed on Zen5 and X870.

[cicio]

Can we add Ryzen AI processors to a regular PC?

[johndoh]

To me the most important question wasn't asked, did the CPU-chipset interface move to gen5 ALSO? Is it now 16GB/s instead of 8GB/s like it was for 600 series boards and Zen 4?

Something not talked about but very important is gaming IPC. The chart shown just for a handful of games shows small uplifts for older titles, but who cares because 450 vs 475 fps doesn't mean anything, and it shows larger IPC uplifts for newer open world games in general. Hitman 3 didn't show much but it's a higher fps game anyway. So seeing gaming uplifts for this platform over a larger number of games will be nice.

Last point. AMD says that this is the best gaming CPU. It probably won't beat Zen 4 X3D though and you'll need Zen 5 X3D to beat that part. HOWEVER, AMD lowered power draw by dropping clocks a little bit, something they didn't mention but that's REALLY how they're getting power performance. In a stock config or probably even using PBO Zen 5 is going to butt stomp on Intel CPUs for perf/watt. at the upper end. You can always get really good perf/watt or fps/watt by slowing clocks down even more but then fps drops off too and that's not what gamers want. So, at the upper end of performance AMD is going to clobber Intel with fps/watt until Intel comes out with CPUs on Intel 4 process node. At that time Intel has a good chance of being much better on the power draw and have better appeal.

[paulb]

keep doing the good work. I'm more budget oriented myself but I still want to know about the latest :)

[BeavisGoFIREFIREFIRE]

I like Don. Is this his first appearance?

[Kickimanjaro]

I've been looking forward to a PC upgrade for a while now and really want to go with an X3D chip but it seems like that's still a ways off. I really wish they could just be clear about how much longer we'll have to wait.

[DollarCodger]

always good to hear from the people at these companies*. great interview, Adam
(*since red/blue/green seem to get treated as biomasses by the community too often)

[bleack]

I picked AM5 specifically because of the AM4 longevity

[axescar]

Hope to see some custom silicon for gaming handhelds - 6 Zen5c small efficient cores with Radeon 890m igpu. Z1 is not custom, its just binning of existing 7040u

[blackpanthertchallalem]

Thanks for asking the hard questions about handheld gaming even though we got a no comment