- I just never thought it'd be like this.
Intel, I get it.
You know, you want people to know
you're still great for games.
But the thing is,
tactically launching an article proving it
on October the 7th,
the day before AMD's big announcement this morning,
is that, while what you said was true,
you had to know that it wouldn't be for long.
AMD's Where Gaming Begins event just wrapped up,
and we've got some huge updates to go through for you,
including Dr. Lisa Su announcing
that AMD's Ryzen 5000 will officially be
at the heart of your next gaming machine.
You know what's in my heart, though?
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AMD's been on a steady upward trajectory
in the Steam Hardware Survey for the last few years,
and they recently cracked market share
of more than a quarter of all PCs running Steam,
which, like, if you're a PC gamer,
you've probably got Steam installed.
That is a huge number,
and it's gonna get bigger.
We knew that AMD would be announcing
next gen Ryzen 5000 series processors
based on their Zen 3 architecture.
But we thought it was going to be the evolutionary.
This is more like revolutionary.
Not only has Zen 3 improved the instructions per clock rate
by 19% over Zen 2,
but it manages to do so
with a claimed zero additional socket power
and the exact same TDP as before.
On top of that,
AMD has done away with the compute complex,
which means that now,
all eight cores on the die are able to communicate directly
with not only each other
but also with their shared caches.
So no more 2x16 megabyte cache.
Now all of the cores have access
to the entire 32 megabytes per die.
That has huge implications
for latency-sensitive applications like games.
Four Zen 3 CPUs were announced today,
and they followed the same naming format
that AMD set with Ryzen 3000,
except that we skipped the whole 4000 thing,
'cause desktop mobile something something.
Don't worry, it's all synced up now.
So there's 16 cores at the top,
six cores at the bottom for now,
and they're all set to launch on store shelves together
on November 5th.
That's right, a hard launch.
And for the first time in a long, long time,
AMD has seen fit to increase
the pricing of their offerings above Intel's,
a ballsy move that may just work out for them.
Honestly, I'm not even mad,
as long as they pour that extra cash into R and D
and keep PC gaming's traditional cycle
of excitement followed shortly by buyer's remorse
well and alive.
One disappointment is that AMD still hasn't managed
to cross that magical five gigahertz milestone.
But boost clocks are creeping upward
with 4.6 gigahertz being the slowest of the bunch,
and when you combine that
with the arguably more important
massive per clock performance improvements,
you've got a recipe for speed.
Based on the slides that AMD showed off,
we're expecting gamers to see
anywhere from a 20 to 50% improvement in performance
over Ryzen 3000.
And with numbers like that,
AMD should roughly match Intel as a worst case,
or even beat them by up to 20%.
I mean CS: GO used to be an Intel stronghold;
now, more like a flacid hold.
AMD is now also claiming
that one v. one,
so this is just with a single core working,
they can beat Intel by nearly 90 points in Cinebench.
And like, they already had a pretty big lead
in productivity applications,
thanks to their higher core counts
at pretty much every price point.
Furthermore, they're claiming that the Ryzen 9 5950X,
so that's the 16-core,
should beat Intel's core i9 for CAD
for the first time,
as well as pulling off nearly 60% more performance in V-Ray.
It's important to remember guys, though,
that there's not really an Intel-equivalent chip
to the 5950X, at least on the consumer desktop,
so we'd like to see the 5900X in those workloads, too.
And we will, make sure you're subscribed,
because Anthony's gonna be very, very busy
working on our review for these products.
Better stock up on sweatbands
and water bottles there, Anthony, lttstore.com, baby.
Now I know that matching Intel's gaming performance
might not seem like that big of a deal
to some of you out there, but it is.
AMD fans and fans of competition in the CPU space in general
have been salivating for over three years now
watching AMD's trajectory versus Intel's trajectory,
waiting for them to meet
so that, that's right, it was gonna happen eventually,
AMD would end up on top again.
I mean, how long's it been?
Core 2, 14 years?
Like, I kinda need a moment here.
Guys, this is what AMD was talking about
when they called Ryzen disruptive.
This is industry-changing.
And you might think that I'm being hyperbolic here,
so why don't we change gears
and talk about Intel for a moment?
10th gen core is still using Intel's,
to put it gently, tried and tested 14-nanometer process,
which, to be fair to Intel,
does have better density
than most competing 10-nanometer processes.
But the problem is
that TSMC's seven-nanometer process that AMD is using
is roughly as dense as Intel's 10-nanometer,
which Intel is already shipping in laptops,
so, you know,
you might think Intel should be able
to dust themselves off
with the upcoming 11th gen core series,
code name Rocket Lake,
and come charging back into the fight, right?
Maybe.
Thing is, Intel's gonna need to pull
a serious rabbit out of their hat at this point
because they've thrown every engineering solution
at this problem, up to, and including,
actually shaving down the physical thickness
of their CPU dies to improve thermal conductivity
so they can squeeze out a little bit more performance.
And, making matters worse,
Rocket Lake is rumored to be yet another 14-nanometer CPU,
although it's also rumored
to be based on the same core architecture as Tiger Lake,
just embiggened, which means we may see
a die area increase, and consequently,
a power and thermal output increase.
What's that gonna mean?
I don't know,
but it'll gain PCI Express gen four
just in time for that to become important
as next generation games start shipping with DirectStorage,
requiring high-speed SSDs for data streaming while gaming,
and it's coming in Q1 next year.
So, in summary, the best case scenario
is Intel's missing the holiday season this year,
and the worst case is
they're missing the holiday season next year.
So how is AMD able to pull of these kinds of gains?
They tell us that, thanks to their chiplet process,
they're able to run development on future CPUs in parallel.
And with Zen 3, they're exemplifying that
by simply plonking the new dies
onto the same packages that Zen 2 used,
complete with the same I/O die as before.
That also means that Zen 3
is gonna drop right into a 500 series motherboard,
running the BIOS that you may very well
already have installed on your board.
Crazy, right?
Although you will wanna update to the latest,
when you get a chance, for the best results.
As for the rest of the backwards compatibility story,
300 series motherboard owners
will need to upgrade to a new board,
but 400 series owners can expect a BIOS update in January
to enable support for the new CPUs.
Now AMD tells us that overclocking
is gonna be similar to what we're used to right now,
with memory being the primary focus,
but they gave us a little tease by saying,
and I quote, "It will be a breeze
to set a variety of world records of your choosing."
What a terrifying thought
for anyone who's wearing an Intel badge at work right now.
This is kinda like the old days,
when, by the time game consoles
got through their development process and launched,
they had already been outstripped
because PC technology was going so fast.
Like, it's happening.
And I think it's fair to say
that we've got AMD to thank for that.
Okay, and you, you leather-jacket-wearing rogue, you.
But don't get comfortable.
AMD's CPU Day also included a sneak peak
at the expected performance of Big Navi,
showing their upcoming GPU,
roughly in line with the RTX 3080.
That means, if it's true,
AMD's GPU division has disappointed me many a time,
it may actually be possible
to run a fully Team RED gaming rig on the high end again
with a straight face, like this.
Again, we'll have to wait and see
what the real world numbers look like,
but so far, AMD's probably feeling pretty confident
right about now,
and it definitely helps on that front
that NVIDIA had their foot off the accelerator
for a generation with the RTX 2000 series.
As for when you can get your hands
on this exciting news hack,
November 5th is the date to watch.
I don't know when reviews are gonna go live yet,
but it's a pretty safe bet
that that'll be on the 5th as well.
I am super excited to get my hands on these chips,
and I can't wait to see
if we're wrong about Intel's response.
I mean, who knows?
Maybe a little time in the back seat
just like the good ol' days'll do them some good,
help them gather their thoughts
and some CPUs that people wanna buy,
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