Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)

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Josh128

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The part that's sketchy to me is gaining that much from PBO. Recent AMD chips generally have not had a lot of OC headroom.

Indeed. However, AMD recently admitted in an interview (think it was Mike Clark himself) that it was a challenge keeping power consumption of Zen 5 down on 4nm. Also, the rumor that 9950X draws 190W stock and doesnt reach 230W unless PBO is turned on seems very odd. If Zen 5 continues to scale perf very well up to 230W, why would that not be the default operation for this flagship SKU when it was for 7950X?

I could understand the "visuals" of making 9700X and 9600X 65W CPUs, but AMDs own tech day charts show that 65W TDP is obviously not enough to feed a 9700X to its full potential, because it gains more % from PBO than any other SKU. Very strange temp and power dynamics across the board for Zen 5 for based on the leaks we currently have.
 
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Josh128

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Other day..
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Not too shabby for a 6 core i would say 👍
Oh wow. Thanks for posting. That single core score is considerably lower than what I would expect for the 5.4 boost clock. 7700X has same boost clock and gets ~2010. +17% IPC (claimed by AMD for R23) would put the score well into the 2300s. As it stands, vs CPUMonkeys 7600X 1976 ST score, this is only a 9.2% uplift.

All core uplift is also only 6% vs 7600X's 15.3K. Contrary to the "not too shabby" caption, this is objectively not a good look. Hmm...
 
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And is gaming the intended target or rather creative professionals that want some macbook with Windows? I mean I don't know and we haven't heard anything officially, but it would be a pity to let all this mem bandwidth go to waste
Yeah I hope they had the foresight to go for that market. The M- chips have made great inroads in scientific computing community for “budget” options that either require CPU compute or large datasets that wont fit in average GPU VRAM
 

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The part that's sketchy to me is gaining that much from PBO.
Dont' forget that Ryzen 9000 has lowered TDP for most of the models. All models below the 9950X basically default to what was the Eco mode before. Look at the right side of this slide:



The 9700X gains only 11% and not 22% because it's the SKU that's limited the most by its lower TDP compared to the 7000 series. Activating PBO does not help the 9950X very much, but the 9700X can gain the most.
 
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The most interesting addition is the CheckMate benchmark, which emphasizes the capabilities of your CPU's branch prediction unit through a multi-threaded approach. The utility leverages the AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) set, particularly the AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512, to accelerate certain types of calculations. More importantly, CheckMate has brought in support for AMD's newest Ryzen AI 300 APUs as well, which is certainly impressive since it will allow for more extensive testing of the new mobile platform.

New benchmark in latest AIDA64 and guess what we have from our best friend the ES user:



PBO CO daily tune.
 

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Assuming this is just increasing TDP like it implies, that puts 9700X at ~28% faster than 7700X since the 7700X would see little to no gain just from increasing power.
Possibly, because 7700X is the Zen 4 SKU that get the most in the inefficient part of the curve, even accounting 15W for the IOD the single CCD is still pushed at 115W, wich is more than the 7950X.

Yep, that's the other slide. They pretty much complement each other.

The results being "up to" this is also in Blender, but the number would still be at least 10% in CB and other such benches, they are really sure of themselves to reduce perf that much, they could had created an intermediary TDP between 65W/88W PPT and 105W/142W PPT for this SKU.
 
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StefanR5R

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Some interesting info from the Chinese shop owner who posted prices (sorry, link is to wccftech article)

"[...] With PBO, the Ryzen 7 9700X can beat the Ryzen 7 7800X3D [...]"
The part that's sketchy to me is gaining that much from PBO. Recent AMD chips generally have not had a lot of OC headroom.
Indeed. However, AMD recently admitted in an interview (think it was Mike Clark himself) that it was a challenge keeping power consumption of Zen 5 down on 4nm. [...]
This was not about absolute power consumption but in the context of co-developing Zen 5 for two different processes without letting the designs diverge too much from each other, to keep validation efforts in check.
(source, scroll down to the heading "The biggest challenge of Zen 5 design")

Anyway, the Chinese shop owner's claim ("...can beat...") is trivially true, as it merely depends on the game benchmark selection.
 

Rheingold

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that puts 9700X at ~28% faster than 7700X
That's 28% faster in Blender with the 7700X at 142W PPT and the 9700X using PBO. That's +11% from 7700X@142W to 9700X@88W and +15% from activating PBO on the 9700X. Compare this with the 9950X which has 22% at the same 230W PPT and gains another 6% for a total +29% when activating PBO. This also means that the 9950X will then use more than 300W.

Info: Whoops, this was all mixed up before.
 
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Another strange rumor we've heard is that ST scores tend to increase with PBO turned on. In all previous Ryzen gens to date, simply turning PBO "On" (no curve optimizer, etc.) simply raises PPT and give you better MT perf, but almost always lowers ST perf. Take for example the 9600X above-- were the two different scores with PBO off vs PBO on? ST shouldnt have changed at all, or maybe even slightly decreased if you were to do that in previous gens.
 
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Hail The Brain Slug

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Another strange rumor we've heard is that ST scores tend to increase with PBO turned on. In all previous Ryzen gens to date, simply turning PBO "On" (no curve optimizer, etc.) simply raises PPT and give you better MT perf, but almost always lowers ST perf. Take for example the 9600X above-- were the two different scores with PBO off vs PBO on? ST shouldnt have changed at all, or maybe even slightly decreased if you were to do that in previous gens.
I mean. I saw Cinebench 2024 ST increase on my 7950X just enabling EXPO and nothing else. I don't have a good explanation for that, either.

Until these chips are tested thoroughly either in reviewers hands or in end users hands to demonstrate these kinds of scenarios, we won't know for sure.
 
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