New AMD Socket AM5 platform combines with world’s first 5nm desktop PC processors to deliver powerhouse performance for gamers and content creators. AMD has announced the Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors along with the AM5 socket and the 600-series motherboard chipsets.
The Ryzen 7000 Series processors deliver dominant performance and leadership energy efficiency. Compared to the previous generation, AMD Ryzen 7950X processor enables single-core performance improvement of up to +29%, up to 45% more compute for content creators in POV Ray, up to 15% faster gaming performance in select titles, and up to 27% better performance-per-watt.
A closer look at the RYZEN 7000 SERIES processors
The four CPUs being announced are the 7950X, the 7900X, the 7700X, and the 7600X. At the top of the stack is the Ryzen 9 7950X, a 16-core, 32 thread processor capable of boosting up to 5.7GHz and with 4.2GHz base clock. It features 80MB of total cache capacity and has a TDP of 170W. Next is the 12-core, 24-thread Ryzen 9 7900X, which has a boost clock of 5.6GHz and base clock of 4.7GHz. It has 76MB of total cache and a TDP of 170W. The third model in the line-up is the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 7700X. It has a boost clock of 5.4GHz and base clock of 4.5GHz. It has 40MB of total cache capacity and a TDP of 105W. Lastly, there’s the Ryzen 5 7600X. It features 6-cores, 12-threads and has a boost clock of up to 5.3GHz and base clock of 4.7GHz. It has 38MB total cache capacity and 105W TDP.
New AMD socket AM5
The Ryzen 7000 series processors use the new 1718-pin Land Grid Array (LGA) AM5 socket, which means that people looking to upgrade will have to commit to a new motherboard. Along with a new board purchase, users will also need to purchase a set of DDR5 memory, as there’s no backwards compatibility with DDR4. Although memory isn’t backwards compatible, AMD promises that the socket will support AM4 coolers.
There are plenty of improvements to look forward to. The AM5 socket increases the socket power delivery to 230W, and opens support for future technologies, like PCIe 5 lanes.
AMD EXPO™ Technology
The AM5 platform will support the company’s new EXPO technology, which is essentially AMD’s version of Intel’s XMP. It’s a one-click overclocking solution for memory and is what AMD processors will be using going forward instead of XMP. By default, the Ryzen 7000 CPUs support memory speeds of up to DDR5 5200MHz but higher speeds can be enabled using EXPO. AMD EXPO technology was designed to achieve higher gaming performance from pre-configured overclocking profiles and is easy to implement.
