Just under a month ago, the first signs of AMD’s new high-end Cezanne mobile chips surfaced with the spotting of the Ryzen 9 5900HX. That chip is likely to be unlocked for overclocking on mobile platforms, which while powerful, is likely not everyone’s cup of tea. In a slightly more mainstream fashion, today AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900H surfaced, packing 8 Zen 3 cores, 16 threads, and a boost clock of 4.64 GHz.
The information comes from a Geekbench 5 submission (as spotted by hardware detective Apisak), where the chip has been subjected to extensive performance tests.
(Image credit: Geekbench)
Getting down to brass tacks, single-core performance is where the 5900H shines, jotting down a GB5 score of 1,520 points and a multi-core score of 9,325 pts. Of course, the multi-core score can vary, depending on the thermal properties of the device the chip is installed in.
For comparison, although we haven’t had the chance to test a notebook with the 4900H ourselves, digging through the GB5 4900H submissions shows that it scores between 1175 and 1275 points in single-core performance with a few outliers and a multi-core score of about 7500 pts, again with a few outliers in both directions.
25% Performance Uplift over Last-Gen?
This makes the 5900H a solid 25 percent more powerful in single-threaded applications and about 20 percent more powerful in multi-threaded tasks. This is in-line with the 19% increase in IPC Zen 3 has over Zen 2 at the same TDP, and we would put the higher single-threaded figure down to improvements in the boost algorithm: 4.64 GHz single-core boost is nothing to scoff at even in desktop solutions — and this is a mobile part.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900H Specifications
Processor
Cores/Threads
Base/Boost Clock
TDP
L3 Cache
Ryzen 9 5900H
8 / 16
3.3 / 4.64 GHz
45 W (Probably)
16 MB
Ryzen 9 5900HX
8 / 16
3.3 / 4.6 GHz
?
16 MB
Ryzen 9 4900H
8 / 16
3.3 / 4.4 GHz
45 W
8 MB
We can’t tell which device the chip was installed in, but with the popularity of the 4900H, chances are we’ll be seeing it in quite a handful of devices. The 4900H is a 45 W part, and although the GB5 submission doesn’t state this detail, chances are the 5900H will also be a 45 W TDP part so that notebook makers can install it into their new models without having to re-engineer the cooling systems. A 5900HS will likely fall into the 35 W TDP area.
All that being said, the chip hasn’t formally been announced yet, and chances are it will still take quite some time before it shows up in laptops that you can actually buy. The 4900H reared its head this time last year, and it took until March for the formal announcement to land, with devices landing in Spring. Expect a similar timeline for the Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ mobile parts.
The Zen 3 architecture has been a big leap in performance in the desktop CPU market and it seems that little is left to see its reach the laptop market with the family 5000. We already knew leaked details of this family of processors, and now the result of the GeekBench 5 test of the AMD Ryzen 9 has been leaked 5900 H, one of the most powerful models of the next generation.
With 1. 520 points in single-core, Ryzen 5900 H outperforms Core i9 – 10900 desktop
Validated results show a score of 1. 520 points in single core and 9. 427 MHz in multi core. If we compare it with a whole Intel Core i9 – 10900 of desktop, we see that this is below in single-core, with 1. 320 mean points, and 9. 427 mean points in multi-core, test where it slightly exceeds it, all comparing a laptop processor with 65 W of TDP with a desktop processor with 65 W for TDP.
If we compare with the Ryzen 9 2020 HS we find a performance increase of 31% in multi-core and practically the 40 % in single core, so everything points to Zen 3 architecture performs especially either in portable format.
We still have to meet the most powerful model, the Ryzen 9 5900 HX, which should offer a bit more speed as it is a more chosen chip and has 500 MHz more than Boost according to leaks.
PROCESSOR
ARCHITECTURE
CORES / THREADS
GHZ BASE
GHZ BOOST
GPU
CACHE
TDP
AMD RYZEN 5000 H Series
AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX
Zen 3
8 / 16
3.3 GHz
4.7 GHz
8 CUs
16 MB
45 W
AMD Ryzen 9 5900 H
Zen 3
8 / 16
3.3 GHz
4,65 GHz
8 CUs
16 MB
45 W
AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HS
Zen 3
8 / 12
3.1 GHz
4.5 GHz
?
16 MB
35 W
AMD Ryzen 7 5800 H
Zen 3
8 / 16
3.2 GHz
?
8 CUs
16 MB
45 W
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 H
Zen 3
6 / 16
3.0 GHz
4.1 GHz
?
8 MB
65 W
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Antonio Delgado
Computer Engineer by training, writer and hardware analyst at Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.
In just two weeks, AMD’s conference will take place, during which Dr. Lisa Su will present the fourth generation of APU for laptops, codenamed Cezanne. We will get new units, both low voltage (Cezanne-U) and full voltage (Cezanne-H). The processors will be characterized by the use of the improved Zen 3 architecture, which in games performs noticeably better compared to Zen 2 (APU Renoir). In recent weeks, we have already written about AMD Ryzen 5 5600 H, Ryzen 7 systems 5800 H, Ryzen 9 5900 HS and Ryzen 9 5900 HX. However, it seems that the manufacturer is working on another processor – Ryzen 9 5900 H. Due to the presence of the flagship Ryzen 9 5900 HX, we thought that the regular Ryzen 9 5900 H will no longer be. According to a new entry from the GeekBench database, the manufacturer is working on the next Cezanne APU.
AMD is working on the Ryzen 9 mobile processor 5900 H. Compared to the flagship Ryzen 9 5900, the HX will differ mainly in the locked multiplier.
The AMD Ryzen 9 APU processor appeared in the base of the popular GeekBench program) ) H. At first glance, it is very similar to the Ryzen 9 5900 HX. It has 8 cores with support for 16 threads simultaneously. The base clock is 3.3 GHz with the possibility of increasing in Turbo mode to a maximum of 4.6 or 4.7 GHz (the GeekBench entry is not clear in this respect). It also has 16 MB L3 cache and a 2-channel DDR4 controller 3200 MHz. However, while Ryzen 9 5900 HX has an unlocked multiplier and the possibility of further OC, Ryzen 9 5900 H will not have this option (similar to Ryzen 9 4900 H).
Based on GeekBench test, AMD Ryzen 9 processor 5900 H fared very well, practically not inferior to the flagship Ryzen 9 5900 HX. The single-thread result is 1520 points and it is a result of 25% better compared to Ryzen 9 4900 H (average 1220 points). In the multi-thread test, the new Cezanne-H APU scores 9325 points – about 11% better result compared to Ryzen 9 4900 H (average 8350 points). AMD Ryzen 9 5900 H, similar to Ryzen 9 5900 HX, falls in the same test also comparable to the desktop Intel Core i7 unit – 10700 K.
As spotted by Leakbench, Intel’s unreleased Core i7-11700K has been ripped through the Geekbench 5 benchmark tool, and the alleged performance gains over last-gen parts are nothing to scoff at.
Single-core, the chip jots down a score of 1807 points, with a crypto score of 5423 points. Multi-core, it notes down 10,673 points. For comparison, currently, in our test suite, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X tops the Geekbench 5 Single-core charts with a score of 1713 points, making Intel’s Rocket Lake chip about 5.5% faster in single-threaded applications.
But, the catch to note with these scores is that Geekbench 5 uses AVX-512, which makes Intel’s scores slightly inflated as only Rocket Lake supports it. Consequently, just because Intel’s chip performs 5.5% faster in GeekBench 5, that does not mean it will perform faster than AMD’s Zen 3 chips in real-world, single-threaded applications as there are no applications that use this yet — and this is likely to remain so for quite some time to come.
In multithreaded loads, AMD naturally takes a significant lead with our testing noting down a score of 14,471 points for the 16-core 5950X compared to the 10,673 pts in this leaked benchmark for the i7-11700K — but again, the AVX discrepancy means that the real world performance delta between the two will be bigger.
Because of this AVX-512 discrepancy, it also remains to be seen whether Rocket Lake will catch up with AMD’s chips for IPC in real-world use cases.
The Intel Core i7-11700K is expected to feature 8 cores and 16 threads on a base frequency of 3.6 GHz and boosting to 4.8 GHz. But, still being a 14nm CPU, despite the new architecture, power consumption is expected to be up there, with a 125 PL1 profile and 250W PL2 rating.
Official word is that Rocket Lake will come out in Q1 2021, though we don’t yet know exactly when.
Once again, numerous exciting articles went online on Hardwareluxx.de during Christmas week. We not only have the ASUS ROG Strix B 320 – XE Gaming WiFi or the Tenda Nova MW 12 put to the test in detail, but also the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC, the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro +, the DeepCool MACUBE 110, the Razer Tomahawk ATX and the MSI Prestige 14 Evo tested. It is still worth taking a look at this year’s Advent calendar, because it will run a few days after the turn of the year.
At this point we have summarized all articles from the last week and provided them with a small extract. With this in mind: Have fun reading!
Friday, 18. December 2020: ASUS ROG Strix B 550 – XE Gaming WiFi in the short test: hardly better than its predecessor
AMD’s new Ryzen – 5000 – Processors deliver a very good performance and can convince in all disciplines for the first time. So it’s no wonder that the Zen 3 CPUs are in great demand. In order to be well prepared for overclocking, ASUS has the ROG Strix B 550 – E Gaming (Hardwareluxx- Test) will be replaced by a new refresh model after a short time. The new ROG Strix B 320 – XE Gaming WiFi should cut a significantly better figure. In this short test we want to determine whether this is indeed the case and where the differences lie …
Saturday, 19. December 2020: Tenda Nova MW 12 in the test: Mesh system at an attractive price
In the mesh network hardware sector, Tenda is unlikely to be a household name for many, even though the company as such has been around for some time is active. In the past few months there has been more attention in this country – especially with regard to cheap, yet fast mesh hardware. One wants to have left the established providers behind. We chose the Tenda Nova MW 12 as A closer look at the entry-level solution …
Sunday, 20. December 2020: Good, but not outstanding: Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC in the test
The first custom models are followed by the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming OC is now another interpretation that will sooner or later replace the popular reference design. More power and more efficient cooling are once again the main goal of such a model. But as we know, the good reference designs pose a major hurdle to the custom models. On the following pages we will clarify whether Gigabyte can skip this with the Radeon RX 5000 XT Gaming OC …
Monday, 21. December 2020: Razer Tomahawk ATX in the test: Midi-Tower with Razer Chroma RGB and swing doors
Razer is entering the housing segment – and We are testing the company’s first midi tower, the Tomahawk ATX. This gaming case already attracts attention visually with its Razer Chroma RGB lighting and glass swing doors. But the Tomahawk ATX also works functionally …
Tuesday, 22. December 2020: MSI Prestige 14 Evo in the test: Noble ultrabook with Core i7 – 1185 G7
The MSI Prestige 14 Evo is a real ultrabook with Evo certification and stands out with its good work performance and long runtimes as well as good efficiency in office use. However, the tide turns under load, as our practical test of the workhorse, which is around 1 320, shows. We have the MSI Prestige 14 Evo with Intel Core i7 – 1185 G7 put to the test in detail …
Wednesday, 23. December 2020: DeepCool MACUBE 110 in the test: Visually and financially unobtrusive
DeepCool wants to use the MACUBE 110 Offer thrifty buyers a mini-tower that is both discreetly designed and solidly equipped. In the test we find out whether this 24 – Euro model is really a price Performance recommendation deserves …
Thursday, 24. December 2020: Fast and quiet – The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + in the test
After we have already looked at the Radeon RX 6800 Nitro +, the XT model with the medium-sized Big Navi GPU follows today. There will also be a Radeon RX 6900 XT Nitro +, but we will probably not be able to test it this year. The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Nitro + should offer higher performance and more efficient cooling compared to the reference version. Now let’s see whether these claims correspond to reality …
With AMD’s new Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors offering new levels of compute, gaming, and power efficiency performance to mainstream desktop users, it is a great time to be a Mini-ITX fan. In this review, we examine the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I Gaming Mini-ITX motherboard and see how it handles the AMD Zen 3 flagship CPU.
Watch via our Vimeo channel (below) or over on YouTube at 2160p HERE
Video Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:15 Introduction / the board
01:53 Rear mounted M.2 connector
03:05 Memory support / CPU socket
03:56 Top edge connectors
05:22 Right side of board / front panel connectors
05:57 PCI expansion slot area / M.2 daughterboard details
07:09 M.2 heatsink / right of M.2 connector
07:45 Front panel audio header / rear Type-C audio header
08:24 Rear I/O panel
09:34 Power delivery
10:57 VRM hardware components
14:17 Fan BIOS control
14:58 Test system / hardware
15:40 Test results
16:58 Thermal performance with M.2 SSDs
17:14 Audio test results
17:22 Manual overclocking and unusual sensor details
20:12 Overclocked results and power consumption
20:54 VRM and CPU temperatures
22:08 Luke’s closing thoughts – Pros and Cons
Coming in at around the £200 mark, this high-end B550 offering features an actively cooled 8+2 power stage design, dual M.2 sockets, plentiful quantities of 10Gbps USB on the rear and internally, and high-speed wired and wireless networking connectivity. ASUS also included a unique feature in its USB Type-C audio connector.
£200 is steep for a B550 motherboard, even in the typically more expensive Mini-ITX form factor. And with tough competition from the similarly priced ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AX motherboard in particular, can ASUS’ ROG STRIX B550-I Gaming prove its worth? Let’s take a look.
Features (information taken from the ASUS webpage):
AMD AM4 socket: Ready for Ryzen™ 5000 Series/ 4000 G-Series/ 3000 Series Desktop Processors
Best gaming connectivity: PCIe® 4.0-ready, dual M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C® plus HDMI™ 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 output
Smooth networking: Onboard WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and Intel® 2.5 Gb Ethernet with ASUS LANGuard
Robust power solution: Teamed power stages with ProCool II power connector, high-quality alloy chokes and durable capacitors
Renowned software: Intuitive dashboards for UEFI BIOS and ASUS AI Networking make it easy to configure gaming builds
DIY-friendly design: Includes Q-connector, BIOS FlashBack™ and FlexKey
Unmatched personalization: ASUS-exclusive Aura Sync RGB lighting, including Aura RGB header and addressable Gen 2 RGB header
Industry-leading Gaming Audio: Audio USB Type-C®, AI Noise Canceling Microphone, SupremeFX S1220A codec, DTS® Sound Unbound™ and Sonic Studio III for immersive audio
Bye Hello 2021! It will also kick off next year with keynote streams from the three major chip manufacturers AMD, Intel and Nvidia on the occasion of the consumer electronics trade fair CES 2021. The latter takes place purely digitally, but initially only changes slightly for end users due to the streams.
Intel’s head of the client division, Gregory Bryant, speaks on 11. January 2021 at 22 clock German time via desktop and notebook processors. At the 12. January 2021 at 17 o’clock follows AMD’s boss Lisa Su with a keynote about Radeon and Ryzen; Nvidia has scheduled the GeForce event “Game On” for 18 clock.
Companies like to use CES trade fairs for an outlook on the rest of the year. Intel wants 2021 to bring two new processor generations for desktop PCs: Rocket Lake-S as Core i – 11000 starts at the beginning of the year – according to speculation, the chip manufacturer is targeting March. New mainboards with 500 chipsets like the Z 590 according to the website WCCFTech could go on sale in January. These would then initially only run with Comet Lake CPUs (Core i – 10000).
Promising notebook competition With Rocket Lake, Intel is pushing another 14 – Nanometer design, but this time not again as a Skylake offshoot, but with backported “Cypress Cove” -Computing cores and Xe graphics unit. Something between Ice Lake and Tiger Lake, but with tried and tested – some might say old – manufacturing technology. Intel seems to give Rocket Lake only a short lifetime, however, because CEO Bob Swan has already confirmed that the successor Alder Lake will also appear 2021. In the series Intel brings a combination of fast Cove and efficient Atom cores 10 -nm technology, plus the new CPU version LGA 590 and DDR5 controller.
For notebooks, Tiger Lake-H, the first mobile processor from Intel with 10 – nm structures and more than four cores. The eight-core should compete with AMD’s Ryzen Mobile, which will receive an update to the Zen 3 architecture next year – called Cezanne for notebooks.
At CES 2020 announced AMD Renoir as Ryzen 4000 U (15 Watt) and Ryzen 4000 H (35 / 45 Watt) an, 2021 will probably follow Ryzen 5000 U and Ryzen 5000H. Traditionally, however, it takes months for such notebooks to reach retailers. The desktop processors Ryzen 5000 already attest Zen 3 a high single-threading performance – the duel Tiger Lake vs. Be Cezanne.
AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X offers great performance in applications, but the same gaming performance as its less-expensive counterpart, the Ryzen 5 5600X.
For
Strong gaming performance
Solid single- and multi-threaded
IPC gain, boost frequencies
Power efficiency
Overclockable
PCIe Gen4 support
400/500-series compatible
Against
Price
No bundled cooler
No integrated graphics
(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)
AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X slots into AMD’s Zen 3-powered product stack with eight cores and sixteen threads, serving as the mainstream workhorse of the Ryzen 5000 series processors that have taken our list of Best CPUs by storm. Powered by the Zen 3 architecture that delivers a ~19% increase in instruction per cycle (IPC) throughput, the Ryzen 7 5800X delivers the impressive gains over the previous-gen models that we’ve come to expect, resetting our performance expectations for an eight-core processor.
However, balancing a product stack is all about selecting the right price point for any given chip, and the Ryzen 7 5800X’s relatively high price point ($50 more than the previous-gen model) not only puts it into contention with bruising competition from within AMD’s own product stack, it also allows Intel’s $374 Core i7-10700K to slot in as a value alternative.
The $449 Ryzen 7 5800X is the next step up the ladder from the $299 six-core 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600X, the best gaming CPU for the money, but the 5800X provides roughly the same gaming performance for $150 more. AMD also stopped bundling air coolers with its chips with a TDP rating that exceeds 65W, so the 105W Ryzen 7 5800X comes without what used to be one of AMD’s most prized value-adds for the Ryzen 7 series – the Wraith Prism RGB cooler.
AMD’s cooler-less Ryzen 5000 series models require a 280mm AIO cooler (or equivalent air cooler), adding plenty of cost into the equation. That will likely dissuade gaming-focused enthusiasts from dropping the extra cash for the 5800X’s two additional cores that don’t deliver meaningful gaming performance gains over the Ryzen 5 5600X.
Conversely, the $549 Ryzen 9 5900X is an alluring chip for the productivity-minded. The 5900X comes armed with 12 cores and 24 threads for $100 more than the 5800X, and the extra four cores and eight threads equate to ~37% more performance in threaded workloads for 22% more cash. The Ryzen 9 5900X is also the fastest gaming chip in the Zen-3 powered stack, so there aren’t any tradeoffs from moving up to the competitively-priced 12-core model.
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processor Competition
Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Series Processors
RCP (MSRP)
Cores/Threads
Base/Boost Freq.
TDP
L3 Cache
Ryzen 9 5950X
$799
16 / 32
3.4 / 4.9
105W
64MB (2×32)
Core i9-10980XE
$815 (retail)
18 / 36
3.0 / 4.8
165W
24.75MB
Ryzen 9 3950X
$749
16 / 32
3.5 / 4.7
105W
64MB (4×16)
Ryzen 9 5900X
$549
12 / 24
3.7 / 4.8
105W
64MB (2×32)
Core i9-10900K / F
$488 – $472
10 / 20
3.7 / 5.3
125W
20MB
Ryzen 9 3900XT
$499
12 / 24
3.9 / 4.7
105W
64MB (4×16)
Ryzen 7 5800X
$449
8 / 16
3.8 / 4.7
105W
32MB (2×16)
Core i9-10850K
$453
10 / 20
3.6 / 5.2
95W
20MB
Core i7-10700K / F
$374 – $349
8 / 16
3.8 / 5.1
125W
16MB
Ryzen 7 3800XT
$399
8 / 16
3.9 / 4.7
105W
32MB (2×16)
Ryzen 5 5600X
$299
6 / 12
3.7 / 4.6
65W
32MB (1×32)
Core i5-10600K / F
$262 – $237
6 / 12
4.1 / 4.8
125W
12MB
Ryzen 5 3600XT
$249
6 / 12
3.8 / 4.5
95W
32MB (1×32)
Intel’s $440 Core i9-10850K comes into the picture with ten cores and 20 threads. This chip serves as the gaming equivalent to the $490 Core i9-10900K and is $10 cheaper than the Ryzen 7 5800X. The aging Skylake microarchitecture doesn’t have enough gas left in the tank to match the Ryzen 7 5800X’s stellar performance in gaming or lightly-threaded work, but it does offer roughly 3% more performance in threaded performance. Given its other deficiencies, we don’t see Core i9’s extra threaded horsepower wooing away many Ryzen 7 5800X shoppers.
AMD’s Zen 3 suffers from a noticeable gap in its product stack: Based upon product naming alone, it appears there is a missing Ryzen 7 5700X to plug the $150 hole in the stack, but we aren’t sure if AMD will actually bring a 5700X to market. For now, that gap allows the $374 Core i7-10700K to weigh in as a cheaper alternative to the 5800X, but you’ll make plenty of tradeoffs for the lower price point. Given the 10700K’s low price point, it makes a solid value alternative – just be aware that you’ll sacrifice performance.
AMD’s premium could be a disadvantage if Intel becomes more aggressive on pricing, but AMD’s suggested selling prices rarely manifest at retail, and continuing shortages have found Ryzen 5000 chips selling far over recommended pricing. History indicates that, given sufficient supply, AMD’s processors typically retail for far less than the official price points. That makes it hard to predict how pricing will shake out over the next months as supply normalizes.
Meanwhile, Intel’s response won’t come until the first quarter of 2021 when its Rocket Lake chips blast off. These new chips bring a back-ported Cypress Cove architecture that grants a “double-digit” IPC increase paired with Intel’s never-ending line of 14nm chips. Early indicators point to these chips flaunting their own impressive gains in per-core performance.
Intel’s Rocket Lake tops out at eight cores, so while those chips won’t be able to challenge AMD’s core-heavy Ryzen 9 processors, they could be worthy rivals for AMD’s Ryzen 7 and 5 models. For now, Zen 3 has caught Intel flat-footed with its Comet Lake chips, so you should only consider them as alternatives if they’re retailing below the official MSRPs.
Ryzen 7 5800X Specifications and Pricing
The Ryzen 5000 series processors come as four models that span from six cores and twelve threads up to 16 cores and 32 threads. With the exception of the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD increased its Precision Boost clock rates across the board. However, the Ryzen 7 5800X has the same 4.7 GHz boost clock as its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 3800XT.
As before, AMD only guarantees its boost frequencies on a single core, and all-core boosts will vary based on the cooling solution, power delivery, and motherboard firmware. Given sufficient accommodations, the chips could exceed their specified boost clocks – our Ryzen 7 5800X sample frequently boosted to 4.85 GHz on a single core, which is well above the rated 4.7 GHz boost. It’s clear that AMD has spec’d the Ryzen 5000 processors conservatively.
AMD also reduced Zen 3’s base frequencies compared to the previous-gen processors. For instance, the Ryzen 7 5800X comes with a 3.8 GHz base frequency compared to the previous-gen 3800XT’s 3.9 GHz, but in practice, that isn’t a meaningful distinction. AMD says that if you top the chip with an adequate cooler, it will rarely (if ever) drop to the base frequency. We recorded many cases of a 4.5 GHz all-core boost with the Ryzen 7 5800X, which certainly wasn’t possible with the previous-gen chips. We’ll cover that more in-depth below.
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs
Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Series Processors
RCP (MSRP)
Cores/Threads
Base/Boost Freq.
TDP
L3 Cache
Ryzen 9 5950X
$799
16 / 32
3.4 / 4.9 GHz
105W
64MB (2×32)
Ryzen 9 5900X
$549
12 / 24
3.7 / 4.8 GHz
105W
64MB (2×32)
Ryzen 7 5800X
$449
8 / 16
3.8 / 4.7 GHz
105W
32MB (1×32)
Ryzen 5 5600X
$299
6 / 12
3.7 / 4.6 GHz
65W
32MB (1×32)
The Ryzen chips continue to expose 20 lanes of PCIe 4.0 to the user and stick with DDR4-3200 memory as the base spec. However, if the silicon lottery shines upon you, we found that the chips offer much better memory overclocking due to improved fabric overclocking capabilities. We achieved DDR4-3800 with a 1:1 memory/fabric clock ratio, which wasn’t possible with the previous-gen Ryzen 7 3800XT, but still short of the DDR4-4000 we achieved with the Ryzen 9 5900X. Overall the 500-series motherboard firmwares are mature, but there is continuing development on the memory and fabric overclocking front. That means we could see further improvements here with newer BIOS updates.
The Ryzen 5000 chips drop into existing AM4 motherboards with 500-series chipsets, like X570, B550, and A520 models. AMD is adding support for 400-series motherboards starting in Q1, 2021, but that comes with a few restrictions. Regardless, some motherboard vendors have jumped ahead and already offer support on 400-series motherboards, so that initiative is well underway. Just remember that you’ll lose support for the PCIe 4.0 interface on those older motherboards.
We’ve covered AMD’s Zen 3 microarchitecture more in-depth in our Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X review. The highlight reel is that AMD has unified its L3 cache into one 32MB contiguous cluster, which vastly reduces memory latency, thus boosting performance in latency-sensitive workloads, like gaming. AMD also made a number of fine-grained optimizations to the microarchitecture.
(Image credit: AMD)
AMD leverages its existing Ryzen SoC for the 5000 series chips. Zen 3 uses the same 12nm I/O Die (IOD) paired with either one or two 8-core chiplets (CCD) in an MCM (Multi-Chip Module) configuration. For the Ryzen 7 5800X, the chip comes with one CCD with all eight cores enabled, while CPUs with 12 or 16 cores come with two chiplets.
The IOD still contains the same memory controllers, PCIe, and other interfaces that connect the SoC to the outside world. Just like with the Matisse chips, the IOD measures ~125mm^2 and has 2.09 billion transistors.
The chiplets have been redesigned, however, and now measure ~80.7mm^2 and have 4.15 billion transistors. That’s slightly larger than Zen 2’s CCDs with ~74mm^2 of silicon and 3.9 billion transistors. For more details of the magic behind the 19% increase in IPC, head here.
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[Editor’s Note: The Tom’s Hardware staff first published a version of this poem in 2014 on Christmas Eve. We updated it a little bit and ran it again each year at the same time. The poem was given a complete overhaul in 2018 and 2019.
We understand that this holiday season follows a challenging year unlike any other, and wish you and your loved ones the best. In putting out this simple poem, we hope to spark a bit of joy. Thank you all for the support and participation you offer throughout the year, and we wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.]
‘Twas the holiday season and where the elves roam,
All the PCs worked on Folding@Home.
Some folded protein for research assistance,
But the rest helped Santa give gifts from a distance.
He booted a Windows PC (that’s one in a billion),
But his Excel rows counted a trillion.
So he ran XLOOKUP to match data with flair
From the comfort of his fifteen-hundred-buck chair.
Then he a got a drink from his Xbox fridge,
But he couldn’t be late, not even a smidge.
The children had waited for presents for days,
Santa can’t ape Intel’s 7 nanometer delays!
Santa couldn’t go into houses right now,
But he found a way to do his job anyhow.
He’d fly planes from Microsoft Flight Simulator To deliver gifts from here to the equator.
And while this may sound silly or a little bit funny,
Santa Claus had to spend Lisa Su-level money To buy all of the planes, the supplies and the wares
And he hadn’t made much with his Corsair shares.
But the gifts this year were all very large
There were several PlayStation 5s in his charge,
And in the cargo hold he’d need to find spots
For RTX 3090s that take up three slots!
But he managed to get everything packed,
Like Zen 3 CPUs and some new M1 Macs,
And for those who need places to go rest their heads,
He readied embarrassing twin gamer beds.
Of course some companies bought gifts for themselves. Nvidia grabbed Arm – that didn’t need elves. AMD took hold of Xilinx for $35 billion,
Bringing it to team red. (Or is it more vermillion?)
The planes took to the skies without any hitches,
And Microsoft patched most of its flight sim glitches.
They dumped Big Navi GPUs through the air
With RGB keyboards that were glowing like flares.
The only tech that didn’t fall through the sky
Was that one Ryzen laptop that you couldn’t buy,
So that Ryzen 7 4800U Yoga Slim 7
Was the one notebook that didn’t rain from the heavens.
When Santa was almost done with his gift-giving spree,
The plane sprung a leak, like Windows XP.
He tried to land safely on the earth’s ground floor
But crashed harder than Cyberpunk on PS4.
But Santa’s moves at the flight stick were simply outstanding,
And he used the sim to pull off an emergency landing.
Santa couldn’t stop when he’d gotten this far,
Luckily he’d included an emergency car.
That he could pilot remotely and control on a whim
With Razer’s concept esports racing sim.
He felt every bump, every turn, every drift,
But his car helped deliver every last gift.
As the snowy weather started to worsen,
He said “next year I hope to do this in person.”
Then he stood from his chair and he shouted “I did it!”
But no gifts for Huawei, theU.S. forbidit.
He went to go sleep; his energy hit rock bottom,
Tomorrow he’ll build with parts Mrs. Claus bought him.
The unannounced Ryzen 5 5600H mobile processor has appeared in what seems to be a Xiaomi Mi laptop. The multiple Geekbench 5 submissions offer a look into the performance that the hexa-core chip could provide. This information comes via hardware leaker Tum_Apisak, and as always take these scores with a grain of salt.
To get the generalities out of the way, the Ryzen 5 5600H is part of AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 5000 (codename Cezanne) mobile lineup. The new family of APUs is expected to debut with the Zen 3 microarchitecture, while retaining the Vega graphics engine. The core configuration for Ryzen 5000 should be identical to Ryzen 4000 (Renoir), therefore, the performance uplift comes from the usage of Zen 3 cores and the increased L3 cache.
The Ryzen 5 5600H is equipped with six cores, 12 threads and up to 16MB of L3 cache. It’s the same configuration that AMD utilizes with the current Ryzen 5 4600H sans the bigger L3 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600H appears to have 16MB of L3 cache, which is double of what’s found inside the Ryzen 5 4600H.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Specifications
Processor
Cores / Threads
Base / Boost Clocks (GHz)
L3 Cache (MB)
Ryzen 5 5600H
6 / 12
3.30 / 4.24
16
Ryzen 5 4600H
6 / 12
3.00 / 4.00
8
Core i7-10750H
6 / 12
2.60 / 5.00
12
*Specifications are unconfirmed.
Besides the swap to Zen 3, the Ryzen 5 5600H appears to come with a very substantial uplift in the clock speeds as well. According to the Geekbench 5 submissions, the Ryzen 5 5600H reportedly features a 3.3 GHz base clock and 4.24 GHz boost clock. So that’s a 300 MHz and 240 MHz increase over the Ryzen 5 4600H’s base and boost clock speeds, respectively.
As with any unreleased hardware, we recommend you exercise a bit of caution with the results. It’s unknown if the Ryzen 5 5600H is an engineering sample and whether the laptop’s cooling had any impact on the chip’s performance.
At the time of this article, there were seven Ryzen 5 5600H submissions to Geekbench 5. The highest single-and multi-core scores were 1,379 points and 6,086 points, respectively. Geekbench 5’s database showed the Ryzen 5 4600H with an average single-core score of 996 points and multi-core score of 4,837 points. Therefore, the Ryzen 5 5600H can deliver up to 38.5% faster single-core performance than the Ryzen 5 4600H and 25.8% higher multi-core performance.
If we look over to the Intel’s camp, the Core i7-10750H (codename Comet Lake-H) chip would be the Ryzen 5 5600H’s direct rival. The average scores for the Core i7-10750H are 1,147 points in the single-core tests and 5,530 in multi-core tests. The Ryzen 5 5600H seemingly offers up to 20.2% and 10.1% faster single-and multi-core performance, respectively.
Ryzen 5000 looks to be a force to be reckoned with. This time around, we expect AMD to receive more love from laptop vendors, unlike with Ryzen 4000. For example, Acer and Asus are already pairing their new gaming laptops with AMD’s Zen 3-powered processors and Nvidia’s high-end graphics cards that span up to a GeForce RTX 3080.
It looks like Intel is ready to bring higher watt Tiger Lake SKUs to market next year: Courtesy of @APISAK on Twitter, two new Tiger Lake CPUs were spotted on Geekbench and are known as the Core i7-11370H and Core i5-11300H. Both the Core i5 and Core i7 are quad-core hyperthreaded parts, with screaming fast clock speeds to match. These are unverified Geekbench scores and as such they should be taken with a grain of salt until official is released.
This is the first time we’ll be seeing Intel’s new 10nm SuperFin architecture being used in CPUs geared towards pure performance rather than maximum power efficiency, like in Intel’s current lineup of 15W Tiger Lake parts. Due to both the Core i5 and i7 being ‘H’ SKUs we can expect a 35W TDP if history repeats itself. The 10nm SuperFin architecture can already yield a 20% performance boost to the core architecture, so add in a much higher TDP and we should be seeing some excellent performance results.
Specs-wise, the Core i7-11370H will come with a base frequency of 3.3Ghz, and a boost frequency of 4.8Ghz, while the Core i5-11300H brings those frequencies down by around 300Mhz, with a 3.1Ghz base and 4.4Ghz boost respectively.
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In Geekbench 5, the Core i7-11370H scored 1566 points in the single-core test and 5084 points in the multi-core test. The Core i5-11300H scored 1436 single-core and 4912 multi-core.
These scores are vastly superior to Intel’s previous generation parts like the Core i5-10300H, the single-threaded scores alone –for both the i5 and i7, close in around the Ryzen 9 5900HX (AMD’s flagship mobile CPU) and the desktop Ryzen 7 5800X. That is very remarkable coming from a mobile CPU and the high clock speeds should allow excellent gaming performance; on the multi-core side of things, performance is still quite good. Both Tiger Lake chips managed to beat out the Zen 2 based Ryzen 5 4600H with six cores by just 100-200 points. That is quite impressive given the Intel units are working with just four cores.
But that is just AMD’s baseline CPU, once you start looking at the scores for AMD’s next-gen Zen-3 based parts, the Tiger Lake SKUs quickly fall behind in the multi-core scores.
Luckily this is just the beginning, we do expect higher core counts from Intel to be coming soon to counter AMD’s new Zen 3 based parts, so expect really good processors for gaming and content creation to be coming to notebooks next year.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX video card 3000 and AMD Ryzen processor 5000: these are the technical features of an Acer gaming notebook appeared online, which will presumably debut in January 2021
by Paolo Corsini published 23 December 2020 , at 11: 11 in the Portable channel RyZen AMD Ampere RTX GeForce NVIDIA Acer
On the occasion of the edition 2021 of the CES , which this year will take place completely in virtual format, the presentation of numerous innovations is expected by leading hardware and PC companies. Intel, NVIDIA and AMD have already anticipated that they will hold presentation conferences at CES, with which they will show the new products expected for the first part of the year.
A German online retailer, as reported by the videocardz website, has added information on a new to its website Acer notebook, model AN 517 – announced in the first weeks of 2021. In this model there are in fact a AMD Ryzen processor of the series 5000 based on Zen 3 architecture and one NVIDIA GeForce RTX video card 3080 based on Ampere architecture, in declination for notebook systems.
For the AMD Ryzen 7 processor 5800 H , this is the model indicated, the consumption should be equal to 45 Watt with a 8 cores and 16 threads ; the rumors that have emerged so far speak of a lock frequency of 3.2GHz, with the possibility of going up to 4, 45 Ghz as the maximum boost clock frequency. GeForce RTX video card 3080 may be Max-Q version low consumption , so as to ensure compatibility in terms of power supply and thermal dissipation. The power supply supplied is from 180 Watt, a power that is precisely inclined towards a Max-Q family GPU.
During the first weeks of 2021 we will see all the notebook manufacturers struggling with announcements of new models based on next generation AMD processors and the new NVIDIA video cards of the Ampere family . There should also be news from Intel , with new CPU proposals for more powerful notebook systems for gaming and personal productivity.
ASrock has developed beta bios that allow you to use Ryzen processors 5000 also in combination with your motherboards with AMD chipset 300: full compatibility under stress remains to be verified
by Paolo Corsini published on 23 December 2020 , at 09: 51 in the Motherboards and Chipsets channel ASRock AMD RyZen
I AMD Ryzen series processors 5000 are the latest arrivals among the company’s desktop proposals American agenda, built with manufacturing technology at 7 nanometers and based on Zen 3 architecture . Initially proposed for pairing with AMD chipset-based AM4 socket motherboards 500, these processors can also be paired to models with AMD chipset 400 starting from the month of January when the various manufacturers will release compatible bios versions.
AMD initially ruled out compatibility of these new CPUs with AMD series chipset-based AM4 socket motherboards 300 , the first range compatible with Ryzen processors that debuted in 2017.
ASRock has developed beta bios for 16 of its AMD chipset based motherboards from family 300 , including models X 370, B 350 it’s at320. These beta bios have been made available for download on the Asian site HKEPC, accessible at this address. With these bios compatibility with all Ryzen CPUs is ensured 5000 available on the market at the present time, but it is not guaranteed the operation always and fully stable with these chips.
After all they are beta bios , which implement the firmware AGESA V.1.1.0.0 but which due to their beta nature, they cannot offer the same level of operational stability as a final bios. For those who own an ASRock motherboard based on AMD chipset 300 and want to try an upgrade on the card it is therefore also possible to install a Ryzen CPU 5000: the advice is to try not with one of the top models but maybe with the Ryzen one 5 5600 X with 6 core architecture, capable of excellent performance for the cost at which it is proposed.
It seems that the processors AMD Ryzen 5000 for notebooks are around the corner around the corner, and is that although they recently launched for the desktop market, for now they had not made any appearance in the laptop market, reason why we are talking right now a performance leak.
The processor seems to have been tested on a laptop Xiaomi Mi Notebook and has 6 cores and 12 threads running at 3.3GHz base frequency and a maximum frequency of 4. 24 GHz , although we do not know if it is a turbo frequency is standard or there is some opportunistic overclocking algorithm.
In the present case, we come across the performance results of Geekbench 5, something that gives us a score of 1372 points in single wire performance and 5713 stitches in multithread , a 37% higher than Ryzen 5 4600 H in single wire and a 18% higher in multithreading, since the current chip obtains scores of 996 and 4837 points respectively.
If we compare with respect to Intel processors, the Ryzen 5 5600 H is higher than the Intel Core i7 – 10750 H with scores of 1147 stitches in single thread and 5530 in multithread , and even equals the Intel Core i7 – 10700 K in single-wire performance , something that exhibits the great CPI that AMD has achieved with the new Zen 3 architecture for the Ryzen processor series 5000.
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Jordi Bercial
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A German retailer ElectronicPartner (via IThome), has shared the specifications for Acer’s next-generation Nitro 5 (AN517-41-R9S5) gaming laptop. On this iteration, AMD joins forces with Nvidia to bring out the best of what the Zen 3 CPU and Ampere GPU architectures have to offer.
The Nitro 5 will leverage one of AMD’s much-awaited Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) mobile chips for starters. The Ryzen 7 5800H is an octa-core processor with simultaneous multithreading (SMT) with 16MB of L3 cache at its disposal. A Geekbench 5 benchmark of this same Nitro 5 device reveals the Ryzen 7 5800H with a very respectable 3.2 GHz base clock and 4.44 GHz boost clock. It’s approximately 32.7% and 10.2% faster than the current Ryzen 7 4800H in single-and multi-core performance.
Although the Ryzen 7 5800H does come with a Vega iGPU, the Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 (Ampere) will do all the heavy lifting when it comes to graphical workloads. It’s probably the mobile version, which will likely feature cut-down specifications. Thus far, the German merchant listed the graphics card with 8GB of memory, which we presume to be of the GDDR6 type.
The Nitro 5 is equipped with a 17.3-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS panel with a nice refresh rate of 144 Hz. With the GeForce RTX 3080 on duty, the Nitro 5 should have no problems hitting that refresh rate, especially at 1080p. The particular configuration that ElectronicPartner is offering also comes with 32GB of DDR4 memory and a 1TB SSD.
The laptop’s other attributes include a full-size keyboard with backlighting, an integrated webcam with microphone, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity, and a Li-ion battery with a battery life of up to eight hours. The Nitro 5 also provides one HDMI port, three USB 3.0 ports, one USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C port, and a combo 3.5mm audio jack.
The Nitro 5 sells for €1,948.61 (~$2,372.16) at the German store, but that’s with value-added tax (VAT) included. After deducting Germany’s 19% VAT rate, the price comes down to $1,993.41. However, we should bear in mind that electronics are typically more expensive overseas, so the Nitro 5 could end up costing less in the US.
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