Everything you need to know from the month in tech
AMD ripped the covers off four new 4nm Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 processors in the Ryzen 9, 7, and 5 families at Computex 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan, touting that the new Zen 5 architecture will deliver a 16% increase in instructions per cycle (IPC) throughput when the chips come to market in July. Coupled with other improvements, AMD claims the new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X outperforms Intel’s competing Raptor Lake Refresh flagship by an average of 11% in gaming and 21% in productivity workloads. The chips also feature doubled performance in AI and AVX-512 workloads.
The new Zen 5 chips span from the 6-core 12-thread Ryzen 5 9600X to
