AMD detail Ryzen 7000 CPUs with 5.5GHz clock speeds and 15% faster cores

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AMD have spilled a bunch of new details about their upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs, which were first teased at CES 2022 back in January. This time, AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su used a Computex 2022 keynote to reveal more about the gaming-focused chips, which are getting a major overhaul following the Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 6000 laptop processor series.

Of all the internal gubbins, the biggest change is the use of new Zen 4 cores. Compared to the Zen 3 cores in the Ryzen 5000 series, these are up to 15% faster in single-core workloads – like those often imposed by games – and can hit boost clock speeds of up to 5.5GHz. That equals the new Intel Core i9-12900KS, and AMD’s current top-spec CPU, the Ryzen 9 5950X, maxes out at 4.9GHz. That’s a big gap closed with Intel, who've produced most of the best gaming CPUs recently. You can watch the full keynote below; the juicy Ryzen 7000 stuff starts around 19m 30s in.

Zen 4 chips will also come with twice the L2 cache size of Zen 3, possibly inspired by how the recent AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D uses a colossal L3 cache to boost performance rather than higher clock speeds. The Ryzen 7000 generation will evidently combine both the clock speed and cache size approaches, and although Dr Su didn’t offer any games benchmark results, she did show an unnamed 16-core Ryzen 7000 chip comfortably beating the Core i9-12900K in a Blender rendering speed test. Intel’s own 16-core CPU is a juggernaut in creative software, so that does at least bode well for this mysterious high-end model.

On that note, no specific chips were named, dated or priced, though we already knew the first Ryzen 7000s will release this autumn. Besides their own tuned-up speed credentials, they’ll also bring DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0