AMD's Ryzen 9000 Series and Its Evolution in Gaming Performance
TapTechNews June 11th - TomsHardware interviewed AMD's senior technical marketing manager for consumer processors, Donny Woligroski, discussing the company's newly released Ryzen 9000 series Zen5 processors.
He stated that although the Ryzen 9000 series may not outperform the existing Ryzen 7000 X3D series chips in gaming performance, the gap between the two will be narrower than ever before. Additionally, AMD will continue to refine its 3D V-Cache technology.
Woligroski also emphasized that the new Ryzen 9000 series has the same number of cores as the previous generation and nearly the same boost frequency, but still represents significant progress.
At the Computex press conference, AMD dubbed the new R9 9950X the world's fastest consumer desktop processor, but did not claim it as the fastest gaming chip (even though the average跑分 is about 11% higher than Intel Core i9-14900K). Obviously, AMD's previous-generation Ryzen 7000 X3D series processor is what they consider the strongest gaming processor.
Regarding this aspect, Woligroski said, Is it the fastest in gaming? According to our tests, it's faster than the competitor, but the X3D is still the king, just that its lead is not as much as before. So, the 7800 X3D is indeed faster than the 9700 X, but the performance improvement may not be as big as you expected.
In fact, AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors have a similar problem. For example, the gaming performance of the R9 7950X is indeed about 8% lower than that of the previous-generation R7 5800 X3D, and AMD didn't break this record until a year later when it launched the new R7 7800 X3D.
AMD stated that the second-generation 3D V-Cache technology boosts gaming performance to a whole new level - about 30% faster than the fastest standard Ryzen 7000 processor.
Woligroski pointed out that the gap between the X3D and non-X3D chips is smaller this time, which may benefit from the 16% IPC improvement of the Zen5 architecture, faster L1 and L2 caches, and higher boost frequencies. Of course, TapTechNews will also conduct tests to verify this later.
Although the gaming performance of the standard R9 9950X is close to that of the previous-generation X3D chip, Woligroski hinted that the next-generation X3D chip will also adopt further refined 3D V-Cache technology.
Next about the X3D, we attach great importance to the X3D technology. In fact, we have some really great X3D updates coming soon. So, we are constantly iterating and improving, not just simply reusing.
But unfortunately, we don't currently know the details of the next-generation X3D technology, but AMD can take various approaches to improve this technology. For example, the L3 cache small chips used in AMD's past two generations of products are all based on 7nm technology. If it can be upgraded to 5nm, it will definitely allow AMD to stack a larger L3 cache.