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

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biostud

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Current Sales at Mindfactory after 5 hours:

Not even 10 sold for both 9600X and 9700X.

No, I didn't miss a 0, it says "more than 5 sold" and next step would be "more than 10 sold".
Gamers who buy day 0 already has the 7800X3D, so there's really no need to rush. Productivity day 0 buyers are waiting for 9900X and 9950X and possibly for stability bios updates.
 

Timmah!

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I think he means to say that RAM speed is meaningless when the required data cannot be found in RAM. That's when the perceptible delay is felt. If more RAM allows more data to be held in RAM and prevents going to disk, then in that case, it's better to have more RAM than speedier RAM. This obviously is for limited cases where the application preloads the entire working set into RAM and then works on that exclusively, without needing to go to disk until the task is finished. He does have a point that speedier RAM may not help in limited RAM capacity scenarios.
Thats exactly what i meant.
 
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Thunder 57

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I guess my point was, you can have use for more cores without the need for more bandwith - as is clearly the case of rendering. In which case i dont need Threadripper, neither i am inclined to pay premium for it.
I get why its tough luck and AMD wont do it (want to force people to buy TRs to extract more money), why do you care though, if it does not concern you, and feel a need to defend them, thats truly beyond me.

Because it would be expensive with virtually no market. How would they even fit 3-4 CCD's unless they used a combination of Zen5c and blowing up the power budget?
 

Abwx

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Current Sales at Mindfactory after 5 hours:

Not even 10 sold for both 9600X and 9700X.

No, I didn't miss a 0, it says "more than 5 sold" and next step would be "more than 10 sold".
These are pricey, but still, that s about 2x more sales per hour than Intel s whole line up for the last week wich was an average of 2 CPUs per hour over 168 hours, so even at this rate there s nothing that will be left for the competition...
 
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ikjadoon

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Possibly moronic question but does Zen 5 qualify as an architecture or a micro-architecture?
There's enough changes in the frontend (and the back too to be fair) to completely change the performance expectations vis à vis the Zen 1 -> Zen 4 era.
It's just semantics but I'm not even sure if it qualifies as "reworking an arch" or "is a new arch" entirely. It feels very new to me.

FWIW, Zen5 is unequivocally a microarchitecture; any front-end or back-end changes → a new uArch (aka microarchitecture).

AMD certainly follows that industry standard convention, e.g., the Zen4 microarchitecture.

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EDIT: updated the data with a tip from @Hail The Brain Slug.

I'll update this chart later when the bigger SKUs launch, but thought I'd share my current GB6.2 1T "IPC" chart with available Zen5 SKUs. The relative 100% is QC's Oryon 80 SKU, but I'm a bit lazy to change it atm.

CPUGB6.2 1T PtsPeak 1T Freq. (GHz)Pts / GHzPts / GHz %
Apple M437154.400844118.7%
Apple M3 Pro (12C)31384.056774108.8%
Apple M2 Pro26633.504760106.9%
Apple M1 Pro24093.220748105.2%
Qualcomm X1E-80-10028454.000711100.0%
Arm Cortex-X4 (8G3 Galaxy)22873.39067594.9%
Arm Cortex-X3 (8G2 Galaxy)21073.36062788.2%
AMD 9700X33725.52561085.8%
Arm Cortex-X2 (8+G1)18063.20056479.3%
AMD HX 37028775.10056479.3%
Intel i9-14900K32946.00054977.2%
AMD 7950X30835.70054176.0%
Arm Cortex-X1 (G3X G1)15962.99553374.9%
Intel i9-12900HK26115.00052273.4%
Intel Ultra 185H25735.10050571.0%
Intel Ultra 125U21634.30050370.7%
AMD 7840U25625.10050270.6%
Intel i7-1365U25835.20049769.9%
Intel i5-1255U23134.70049269.2%
AMD 6800H20634.70043961.7%

610 (9700X) / 564 (7950X) → a good 12.8% uplift in Pts / GHz. Mobile chips are often a tad lower.

EDIT: forgot my sources! TweakTown for the 9700X; Notebookcheck for the HX 370. The rest are from Notebookcheck's review database. And the 5.525 GHz clock for the 9700X is from Gamer Nexus' test run. I try to pick the highest reputable reviewer score and frequency to remove any bottlenecks somewhere else in the system.

EDIT2: fixed the 7950X & i9-14900K; Notebookcheck's database has higher scores already on their latest review units. And the i7-1365U & i5-1255U got mixed up somewhere. For reference, I chose the highest score NBC has; NBC has reliable methodologies and has access to GB6.2, which most don't now that GB6.3 has released, so it's more repeatable esp. for older Arm cores, even if it is a tad gimped for SME-enabled cores.
 
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May be a little OT, but i think that the ps5pro with rdna 3.5 plus rdna 4 RT means that the PS soc mean AMD will jump from there to RDNA5. Anyone that constantly saw amd putting their product roadmap got that the jump to RDNA3.5 next gen means that they are enforcing the personel and opening the money faucets for the RDNA5, a.k.a. the Zen of AMD GPUs.
I'm talking this because i think that the GPU is the next big thing to be integrated to processors.
You guys live mostly at 1st world countries where these products are not so costly that i(a 3rd world citizen) can't buy a decent GPU without using a crap mobo in an aging platform. If Strix Halo shows that no dGPU is necessary to 1080p ultra playing, so is likely that will sell a lot if not priced as a real Halo product. 1080p performance is a thing that most matter by tons(the MAJORITY, ABSOLUTE) of gamers. Apple does it with excell without to explode(being too costly) of the BOM. MSRP cost around the world be not that big and will be accepted to the majority of gamers.
 
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static shock

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I'm talking this because i think that the GPU is the next big thing to be integrated to processors.
You guys live mostly at 1st world countries where these products are not so costly that i(a 3rd world citizen) can't buy a decent GPU without using a crap mobo in an aging platform. If Strix Halo shows that no dGPU is necessary to 1080p ultra playing, so is likely that will sell a lot if not priced as a real Halo product.
Edit: Nevermind.
 
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Hail The Brain Slug

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FWIW, Zen5 is unequivocally a microarchitecture; any front-end or back-end changes → a new uArch (aka microarchitecture).

AMD certainly follows that industry standard convention, e.g., the Zen4 microarchitecture.

//

I'll update this chart later when the bigger SKUs launch, but thought I'd share my updated GB6.2 1T "IPC" chart with Zen5 numbers. The relative 100% is QC's Oryon 80 SKU, but I'm a bit lazy to change it atm.

CPUGB6.2 1T PtsPeak 1T Freq. (GHz)Pts / GHzPts / GHz %
Apple M437154.400844118.7%
Apple M3 Pro (12C)31384.056774108.8%
Apple M2 Pro26633.504760106.9%
Apple M1 Pro24093.220748105.2%
Qualcomm X1E-80-10028454.000711100.0%
Arm Cortex-X4 (8G3 Galaxy)22873.39067594.9%
Arm Cortex-X3 (8G2 Galaxy)21073.36062788.2%
AMD 9700X33725.52561085.8%
Arm Cortex-X2 (8+G1)18063.20056479.3%
AMD HX 37028775.10056479.3%
Intel i7-14900K32436.00054176.0%
Arm Cortex-X1 (G3X G1)15962.99553374.9%
Intel i9-12900HK26115.00052273.4%
AMD 7950X29755.70052273.4%
Intel i5-1355U25955.00051973.0%
AMD 7840U25625.10050270.6%
Intel i3-1215U20824.40047366.5%
AMD 6800H20634.70043961.7%

610 (9700X) / 522 (7950X) → a quite substantial 16.9% uplift in Pts / GHz. Mobile chips are often a tad lower.

EDIT: forgot my sources! TweakTown for the 9700X; Notebookcheck for the HX 370.
That figure for the 7950X is really not accurate. I see 3250-3300 single with my 7950X at stock 6000C30 EXPO in windows 11

Edit: 3100
 
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Hail The Brain Slug

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I'm going to start my own rumor that Gamer's Nexus getting a seemingly defective 9600X (They said the replacement AMD sent is stable and testable as expected) despite AMD recalling and sending them new units means that AMD's increased QC/validation is not quite 100% successful at screening for these defective samples.

In b4 users start posting complaints about their Zen 5 CPU's not working/being unstable.
 

MS_AT

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I'm going to start my own rumor that Gamer's Nexus getting a seemingly defective 9600X (They said the replacement AMD sent is stable and testable as expected) despite AMD recalling and sending them new units means that AMD's increased QC/validation is not quite 100% successful at screening for these defective samples.

In b4 users start posting complaints about their Zen 5 CPU's not working/being unstable.
Is any validation 100% successful? By Puget data 4% of Zen4 chips are DOA. Why start another fear mongering discussion in a thread that is already full of disappointment? I bet we are still not done with people coming to post about underwhelming gaming performance, so it's not like this thread is going to die out any time soon
 
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gdansk

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Is any validation 100% successful? By Pudget data 4% of Zen4 chips are DOA. Why start another fear mongering discussion already in a thread that is full of disappointment? I bet we are still not done with people coming to post about underwhelming gaming performance, so it's not like this thread is going to die out any time soon
Why do you call it Pudget? I thought it was Puget. As in Puget Sound.
 
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yottabit

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I'm going to start my own rumor that Gamer's Nexus getting a seemingly defective 9600X (They said the replacement AMD sent is stable and testable as expected) despite AMD recalling and sending them new units means that AMD's increased QC/validation is not quite 100% successful at screening for these defective samples.

In b4 users start posting complaints about their Zen 5 CPU's not working/being unstable.
You’d think they’d be able to QC a handful of reviewer samples correctly especially after the previous delay/recall
 

yottabit

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It really bothers me that the 9600x is almost 10fps faster than the 9700x in this bench by TPU. Even at different resolutions spiderman RT has an odd effect on the current Zen 5 CPUs. But also, for some reason this seems to be the only condition they tested that has this anomaly.


I think there is either a major bottleneck in the architecture somewhere or the firmware/bios/AGESA isn't working at 100%.
I can’t remember which review I watched, but they showed 9600x attaining significantly higher ST boost clock (200-300 mhz more) than 9700x at stock power limits. Does seem strange but I’m sure that would explain the discrepancy. Why the 9700x isn’t hitting ST boost I have no idea
 

Fjodor2001

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I think it would be better if they (AMD/Intel/...) just skipped releasing CPU generations that do not provide better that X% performance increase, unless they also bring something else like much lower price, much better perf/watt, higher core count, better iGPU, or similar.

Having to maintain two CPU generations, where one is not much better than the previous one does not make sense.

Not sure what the long-term purpose of Zen5 is over Zen4 from AMD's standpoint. Possibly it could be cheaper to produce, and thus will bring lower price to consumers eventually. In that case I think it makes sense that Zen5 was released after all. Otherwise they could have just waited until Zen6 and accumulated enough perf increase over Zen4 to warrant a new CPU generation. 4-5 years wait between CPU generations would be very long though, but no point in releasing a new CPU generation if it's close to the previous generation anyway.
 
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