AMD extends 3.5-year-old Ryzen 5000 CPU family with two new-but-old Zen 3 chips
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Give it up for the new Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT.
Along with all the more unambiguous newness announced by AMD at the Computex show including the all-new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs and Ryzen AI 300 laptops APUs, both of which sport AMD's latest Zen 5 architecture, AMD has something more familiar to offer. Two new variants of the Ryzen 5000 Series, originally launched in October 2020, have been announced.
The Ryzen 9 5900XT is a 16-core chip that sits in between the existing Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X models, while the Ryzen 7 5800XT closely mirrors the eight-core Ryzen 7 5800X. In theory, an eight-core CPU is the more interesting option for gamers, so let's start there.
The new 5800XT sports eight Zen 3-spec cores on a single CCD, which hooks into AMD's I/O and memory controller die. In nearly every way, the new 5800 XT is almost identical to the old 5800X. So, that's eight cores, 16 threads, 105 W TDP, 36MB of cache, the works.