AMD's initial announcements of Zen 5 processors being far more powerful than the "old" Zen 4s seem to have been confirmed.
The latest news is that the new Ryzen 9000 processors based on Zen 5 cores are not due to go on sale before July 31. The fact remains that AMD has a hard time containing leaks, and while the American firm's communication is well honed, it can't prevent certain information from circulating. Mind you, when it comes to information of this kind - and provided it's confirmed in the near future - we can't wait to hear more: everything leads us to believe that AMD's fine promises are borne out by the first benchmarks.
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Relayed by Wccftech, the first leak on the subject shows a Ryzen 9 9900X processor - not the most powerful in the new range - which would have been mounted on an X670E motherboard with the necessary BIOS update - version AGESA 1.2.0.0 - for the CPU to be correctly recognized. The Ryzen 9 9900X is the successor to the Ryzen 9 7900X, with which it shares an identical number of cores (16) and a maximum frequency of 5.6 GHz. It differs, however, in the nature of the cores onboard (Zen 5 vs. Zen 4) and in the processor's maximum TDP (120 watts vs. 170 watts).
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Despite this power differential, the Ryzen 9 9900X clearly outperforms its predecessor in the only test currently available: Cinebench R23. On the famous tool, we're talking about 33,000 versus 29,000 points, i.e. a difference of around 14% in favor of the Ryzen 9 9900X, despite a TDP 50 watts lower! Better still, by activating the precision boost overdrive (PBO), it is possible to increase the TDP of the Ryzen 9 9900X to 170 watts, just like the Ryzen 9 7900X. We're talking about 34,500 versus 29,000 points, a difference closer to 20%. Of course, we'll have to wait for official and more complete results, but this initial information is very exciting.
