AMD Ryzen 9000 Series “Zen 5” CPUs to Run Cooler than Ryzen 7000 Series and Feature Same DDR5 Memory Sweet Spot

[Tsing]

The Ryzen 9000 Series, a new generation of desktop CPUs from AMD that promises to deliver what the company says is world class gaming and creator performance courtesy of the new Zen 5 architecture, will run cooler than its Ryzen 7000 Series "Zen 4" predecessors but feature the same memory sweet spot (i.e., DDR5-6000), according to a new report that has surfaced ahead of the processors' expected release later this month.

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[Grimlakin]

Want these CPU's out with the new chipset. daddy needs a compute refresh.

 

[Shotglass01]

^^ Same, with *. Running a 7900X now up from Intel 7700k. Big uplift from the Intel, but I may get to end of year and maybe 'slightly' upgrade depending on wife and budget.

 

[Grimlakin]

^^ Same, with *. Running a 7900X now up from Intel 7700k. Big uplift from the Intel, but I may get to end of year and maybe 'slightly' upgrade depending on wife and budget.

Yea my 5900x I am pretty sure is holding my my 7900 xtx. So when those new chipsets drop and bonus/irs season hits I intend to upgrade my processor, motherboard, and Ram. Possibly storage but Samsung's PCIE 4.x NVME seems good and I'm not having capacity woes.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Apparently, the Zen 5 CPUs are rumored to have a higher sweet spot, DDR5-6400 to maintain a 1:1 ratio.

DDR5-6400 Confirmed as Sweetspot Speed of Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" Desktop Processors

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" desktop processors based on the "Zen 5" microarchitecture will see a slight improvement in memory overclocking capabilities. A chiplet-based processor, just like the Ryzen 7000 "Raphael," "Granite Ridge" combines one or two "Zen 5" CCDs, each...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[LazyGamer]

Huh, they'd previously said 'the same' sweetspot, especially since they're using the same I/O die, right?

Though to be fair, 6400MT/s isn't that much more difficult to run than 6000MT/s so long as they've massaged their controller a bit. They definitely do not seem interested in pursuing DDR5-8000+ as a viable option (in any performance-bearing scenario other than a memory bandwidth test).

 

[Denpepe]

The cooler bit sounds like music to my ears.