AMD’s latest CPU architecture Zen 3 had been revealed in Ryzen 5000 series CPUs on October 8th. AMD claims that they have finally achieved the goal of making the dominance of the desktop PC market with their 7nm Ryzen 5000 processors. AMD promises that the Ryzen 5000 series CPU can beat Intel in its last bastion 1080p gaming along with maintaining the existing lead in all other metrics.

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AMD touts that it's Zen 3 architecture-based processors have a market-leading single-threaded performance that comes from its 19% uplift in IPC. Along with the same optimized 7nm process that squeezes out a 4.9 GHz boost offered by the Zen 3 microarchitecture over Zen 2, AMD has taken a major leap in optimization which was already a big achievement for AMD over their initial step into Ryzen.

AMD says that they have redesigned the Zen microarchitecture, the reason for this chipset redesign is to deliver the big IPC gains, and pairing that with higher peak clock speeds provides an outstanding performance boost over AMD's predecessor Ryzen models and also the Intel's Comet Lake chips.

The new advancement in the design and process evolution has made AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series processors faster than Intel in gaming, single-threaded and multi-threaded performance and also provides a leading performance-per-dollar and 24% gen-on-gen power efficiency improvement than Intel Comet Lake.

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For Ryzen upgraders, there’s good news, the processor also offers backward compatibility with the current-gen 500 and 400-series motherboards means it offers an economic way to upgrade their old rig. AMD says that it will give an average of 26% performance uplift in gaming with the Ryzen 9 5900X over the Ryzen 3900X alongside the improved performance in both single- and multi-threaded applications. However, this may vary by game and application.

As Intel is very averse to benchmarks, to prove the Ryzen 5000 processors capabilities AMD had tested many games on test machine having similar components with just different CPUs (5900X vs. 10900K) and found that Zen 3 was able to match and sometimes exceed the performance benchmark of the 10900K by up to 20% in the best case at 1080 resolution. It shows that AMD has a superior gaming CPU in their flagships than Intel.

This evolution does come up with the cost uplift. AMD had stepped up their pricing with $50 each across the board for Zen 3 based CPUs. It means the Ryzen 9 5950X is $50 more expensive at $799 compared to the $749 3950X the same goes with the other lineups, the Ryzen 5900X will retail at $549 whereas its i9-10900K was $499 at launch, the 5800X is at $449, while the cheapest Ryzen, the 5600X will come at $299 with a Wraith Stealth cooler.

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AMD is promising that these new chips are “the fastest gaming CPU’s in the world”. This claim may very well be true; however, we have to wait till the global launch of the Ryzen 5000 series CPUs on November 5th.