AMD unveils its new Ryzen 7000 CPUs and lineup of AM5 motherboards

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AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 CPUs have now been revealed, along with a new generation of motherboards. These were announced at Computex 2022 where AMD shared plenty of details regarding its next leap in performance. From what we’ve seen, the Ryzen 7000 CPUs boast impressive numbers. Along with this news, the AM5 platform from AMD makes big moves toward supporting DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.

This signals a big push from companies to finally move on from older hardware. It’s especially true, since Ryzen 7000 CPUs will only be supported on these new AM5 motherboards. They’ll also only support DDR5 memory, meaning that this upgrade is all-encompassing. Users will need to buy a new motherboard and have DDR5 memory in order to make use of AMD’s next lineup of processors. Though, to be honest, that isn’t entirely surprising.

The Ryzen 7000 processors will use the 5nm Zen 4 ‘Raphael’ architecture and provide “greater than 15% uplift in single-thread performance” compared to Zen 3 CPUs. These will also have up to 5GHz+ maximum boost frequency. In fact, during a demonstration of Ghostwire: Tokyo, AMD showed the CPU reaching 5.5GHz. This makes these CPUs on par with Intel’s Core i9-12900KS, at least in terms of clock speeds. Another demonstration showed Ryzen 7000 performing more than 30% faster than Intel’s 12900K in Blender.

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It was also revealed that a new 6nm I/O die that includes an integrated RDNA2-based graphics engine will be featured. So you won’t necessarily need a separate graphics card unless you want the extra power for gaming. Integrated graphics aren’t something that’s new, but it’s nice to have it there anyway.

The AM5 lineup of motherboards is equally interesting. AMD announced three different options with the