Tuesday, January 12th 2021
AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, Additional Ryzen Desktop Models, and Ryzen Threadripper PRO Availability for Consumers
Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the full portfolio of AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, bringing the highly-efficient and extremely powerful "Zen 3" core architecture to the laptop market. New AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors provide unprecedented levels of performance and incredible battery life for gamers, creators, and professionals. New laptops powered by Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile processors will be available from major PC manufacturers including ASUS, HP and Lenovo, starting in Q1 2021. Expanding its leadership client computing product portfolio featuring the "Zen 3" core, AMD also announced the AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors, delivering enterprise-grade security and seamless manageability to commercial users. Throughout the course of 2021, AMD expects a broad portfolio of more than 150 consumer and commercial notebooks based on the Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors.
"As the PC becomes an even more essential part of how we work, play and connect, users demand more performance, security and connectivity," said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client business unit, AMD. "The new AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop and Mobile Processors bring the best innovation AMD has to offer to consumers and professionals as we continue our commitment to delivering best-in-class experiences with instant responsiveness, incredible battery life and fantastic designs. With our PC partners, we are delivering top-quality performance and no-compromise solutions alongside our record-breaking growth in the notebook and desktop space in the previous year."
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors
Building upon the previous generation of leadership mobile processors, the Ryzen 5000 Series includes high-performance H- and ultra-mobile U-Series processors. At the top of the product stack, AMD Ryzen 5000 H-Series Mobile Processors deliver impressive gaming experiences by combining unmatched performance with outstanding battery life, featuring up to 8 cores and 16 threads and built on the new AMD "Zen 3" architecture.
Topping out the mobile processor offering, the HX Series processors provide gamers and creators with elite-level performance while HS processors bring the power of H-Series in thinner and lighter form factors. The new AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX processor is capable of up to 23% increased single-threaded performance and up to 17% faster multi-threaded performance over the previous generation making it the ideal solution for gaming and creator notebooks.
For mainstream consumers looking for performance on-the-go, the AMD Ryzen 5000 U-Series Mobile Processors offer the perfect blend of performance and efficiency. The new AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor offers:
Available in the first half of 2021, the Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors provide new levels of productivity and collaboration along with seamless manageability to meet the ever-shifting demands of modern work environments. The Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors also offer enterprise-level security features with innovative layers of defense at the silicon, OS and platform levels, giving IT teams confidence their PCs have protection, no matter where their workforce is stationed.
AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors
AMD is also announcing reduced-TDP alternatives to the award-winning AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X desktop processors, coming to pre-built OEM systems only. Powered by the new "Zen 3" core architecture and with a lower 65 W TDP, the Ryzen 9 5900 desktop processor offers an average of 24% faster 1080p gaming across select titles compared to the prior generation.
Product Specification: AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors
Additionally, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors will now be directly available to consumers through participating global retailers, e-tailers and system integrators with on-shelf availability expected in March 2021. Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors offer an unmatched feature set to workstation customers with up to 64 cores, 8 channels of memory, RDIMM and LRDIMM support, 128 PCIe Gen 4 lanes, and AMD PRO security technologies.
Product Specification: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO
"As the PC becomes an even more essential part of how we work, play and connect, users demand more performance, security and connectivity," said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client business unit, AMD. "The new AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop and Mobile Processors bring the best innovation AMD has to offer to consumers and professionals as we continue our commitment to delivering best-in-class experiences with instant responsiveness, incredible battery life and fantastic designs. With our PC partners, we are delivering top-quality performance and no-compromise solutions alongside our record-breaking growth in the notebook and desktop space in the previous year."
Building upon the previous generation of leadership mobile processors, the Ryzen 5000 Series includes high-performance H- and ultra-mobile U-Series processors. At the top of the product stack, AMD Ryzen 5000 H-Series Mobile Processors deliver impressive gaming experiences by combining unmatched performance with outstanding battery life, featuring up to 8 cores and 16 threads and built on the new AMD "Zen 3" architecture.
Topping out the mobile processor offering, the HX Series processors provide gamers and creators with elite-level performance while HS processors bring the power of H-Series in thinner and lighter form factors. The new AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX processor is capable of up to 23% increased single-threaded performance and up to 17% faster multi-threaded performance over the previous generation making it the ideal solution for gaming and creator notebooks.
For mainstream consumers looking for performance on-the-go, the AMD Ryzen 5000 U-Series Mobile Processors offer the perfect blend of performance and efficiency. The new AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor offers:
- Up to 16% more single-threaded performance and up to 14% faster multithreaded performance over the previous generation
- Up to an incredible 17.5 hours of general usage battery life and up to 21 hours of movie playback on a single charge
AMD Ryzen Desktop Processors
AMD is also announcing reduced-TDP alternatives to the award-winning AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X desktop processors, coming to pre-built OEM systems only. Powered by the new "Zen 3" core architecture and with a lower 65 W TDP, the Ryzen 9 5900 desktop processor offers an average of 24% faster 1080p gaming across select titles compared to the prior generation.
Product Specification: AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors
Product Specification: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO
19 Comments on AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors, Additional Ryzen Desktop Models, and Ryzen Threadripper PRO Availability for Consumers
With how they have it setup there are way to many 8C/16T CPUs that all have the same specs other than Clocks and TDP
They're probably all the same chips, but by making new SKUs, we know that they've been "binned" for a particular segment. The same chip that's been manufactured will have different leakage, different GHz limits, different power-consumption. That's just the nature of manufacturing: its impossible to make the "same chip". There's always a degree of manufacturing variance.
Its confusing for sure, but these aren't parts for hobbyists to pick out from. OEMs should be smart enough to pick out the right bin for their purpose.
That's where Intel has an advantage... at least from a business side. With so many computers being sold due to the Pandemic, Intel will probably hit record profits even though its 14nm / 10nm chips are technologically inferior to TSMC 7nm and 5nm. Kind of sad to see this happen..
But AMD isn't "losing". AMD is selling out all of the chips it makes. But AMD just can't really increase production and take advantage of current economic conditions and "win harder".
Bring it on.
mans if we are looking at price and performance
the 3600X launched at $249 and the 5600X $299, that’s a $50 increase for a almost 20% IPC increase
that’s more than justified in my book
Mind you that's assuming you can get the 5600X at MSRP. We are apparently far from general availability still.
The direct comparison will always be directly X vs X. And in this case the 5600X beats every last gen CPU in single threaded apps and just about matches last gens 8 Core in multithreaded apps. So yes you see a 25% price increase but the trade off is you get much better performance than last gen. Price to performance can get no better than that
if you want to split hairs the 3700X launched at $329 vs the 5600X at $299 but yet the 5600X offers better performance. So which is the better value
It's time we finally check out the Ryzen 5 5600X, the most affordable Ryzen 5000 series processor announced to date. Positioned as a mainstream part, it’s coming in at $300, a 20% premium over the Ryzen 5 3600X. However this third-gen processor already didn’t make sense as it cost 25% more than the R5 3600 and offered little extra performance.
Therefore, most opted for the $200 Ryzen 5 3600, which is what we widely recommended in the past year as the best value CPU, and that’s the part we’ll be comparing the 5600X to today.
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www.techspot.com/review/2135-amd-ryzen-5600x/
No, the argument that it must be compared to the 3600X falls flat. A terrible value CPU that offers a mere 1.3% over the 3600. Clearly reviews around the web support my position on this.
Second, the 5600X is only 7.7% faster at 1080p gaming:
www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-5600x/22.html
The margin is 16.6% for desktop applications. 20% is not a performance increase the 5600X has over the 3600, let alone the 3600X.
Not a surprise
Either AMD is planning a 5700X for the consumer market or their cheapest 8 core CPU will be the 5800X, in which case I'll likely be switching to Intel if their next gen CPUs aren't a dud.