Fight against Intel directly! AMD first push out 5nm flagship CPU.
''AMD is in the rearview mirror of the customer (consumer market), they will never be in front of the windshield again, we are leading the market. "Previously, Intel (Intel) CEO Henry Kissinger once insinuated that AMD no longer plays an important role in the processor (CPU) business.
However, just on the morning of August 30, Lisa Su, chairman and CEO of AMD, said at the Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPU conference that the Ryzen 7000 series' running scores on Geek bench all exceeded Intel's flagship. Processor i9-12900K. At the same time, Lisa Su also claimed that the flagship model of the Ryzen 7000 series, the Ryzen 9 7950X, is the most powerful gaming CPU in the world so far.
In the nearly 30-year CPU battle, AMD only had occasional highlights, and most of the time was under the suppression of Intel, and how long this highlight of AMD will last, the industry are looking to what will happen.
According to reports, the four CPUs AMD announced this time are based on the Zen 4 architecture, namely the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X, of which the flagship processor Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores 32 Thread, the base frequency is 4.5GHz, and the overclock frequency reaches 5.7GHz.
Compared with AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors based on Zen 3 architecture, Zen 4 processors have greatly improved single-threaded performance. For example, IPC (Instruction Per Clock, CPU execution per clock cycle) The number of instructions has increased by 13%, while the single-threaded performance has increased by 29%, and even multi-threaded performance has increased by 35%.
According to the pictures released by AMD at this conference, in the actual game comparison, it is 200MHz higher than Intel's 12th generation Core flagship processor i9-12900KS. In terms of actual performance, AMD claims that in gaming scenarios, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X provides a 35% performance improvement over the Intel Core i9-12900K in games such as Tomb Raider. And in the scene running V-Ray, the Ryzen 9 7950X was 62% faster than the Intel period CPU i9-12900K, and 47% higher performance per watt.
This accomplishment thanks to AMD using TSMC's new 5nm process this time. Although the L2 (second level cache) cache capacity of the Zen 4 CPU core has doubled compared to the previous generation, the area of the core + L2 cache is still 18% smaller than that of the Zen 3, and the area of each core is only 3.84mm2.
In addition, AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors use AMD's new AM5 platform for the first time, support PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, and follow the cooling bracket of the AM4 platform. Unlike Intel's 12th-generation Core, AMD's newly released 7000 series processors fully support DDR5 and no longer support DDR4 memory, which shows its confidence in the future DDR5 memory platform.
Although the performance has been greatly improved, the CPU price released by AMD this time is extremely friendly to players. The 7950X is also $100 less than the original release price of the previous-generation 5950X, at $699, and the 12-core, 24-thread 7900X costs the same as the 5900X. The 8-core 16-thread 7700X is $100 more expensive than the 5700X, and the entry-level 7600X is priced at $299, the same as the 5600X's starting price.
Is Intel's 13th generation Core on the way?
In fact, since the launch of the AMD Ryzen product line, its competition in desktop CPUs has been improving. Past data shows that AMD's global share was less than 10% in 2016. Especially in the server chip market that emphasizing performance, Intel's global market share was as high as 99% at its peak, while AMD's was less than 1%. The AMD Ryzen product line was launched in March 2017, and the Ryzen-branded APU (accelerated processor) product line was launched in October 2017, Beginning to fight against Intel Core CPUs directly. In 2018, AMD's 7nm process processor was successfully developed, the sales volume increased significantly, and the market share also increased year by year. In the same year, AMD handed over the 7nm wafer to TSMC exclusively.
According to data from Statista, a third-party market research agency, in 2021, AMD's share of desktop CPUs will rise to 49.6%, almost the same as Intel. In the overall CPU market, including servers, AMD had a 39.7 percent share in the third quarter. However, AMD's situation has slowed down after the introduction of Intel's 12th generation Core. On October 28, 2021, Intel released the 12th generation Core chip, which surpassed AMD in both single-core and multi-core performance. In addition, AMD's processor and motherboard price reductions have been very low, resulting in a significant drop in AMD processor sales.
On the day of the release of the AMD Ryzen 7000 series, a foreign technology media VideoCardz reported that a leaked document showed that Intel's 13th-generation Core processor will be released in the early morning of September 28, Beijing time, and will be launched on October 20. Models include K-series models of i9, i7, and i5. It was revealed that the i9-13900K has 24 cores and 32 threads, the i7-13700K has 16 cores and 24 threads, and the i5-13600K has 14 cores and 20 threads. According to previous revelations, the i9-13900K has 8 performance cores and 16 energy efficiency cores. The total capacity of the third- and second-level caches has been increased to 68MB, of which the L3-level cache is 36MB, which is an improvement compared to the 12th generation Core. However, Intel has no comments yet.
