[Discussion Thread] AMD Announces Ryzen 9000 With 16% IPC Uplift

It’ll be fascinating to see the actual gaming performance of the 9900X and 9950X. Despite the improved IPC, the comparison with the 14900K suggests the 7800X3D might still hold the crown for gaming.
 
Based on what I’ve read and watched, it seems we’re getting a nice boost in performance with reduced heat and power consumption.
 
We've had the Ryzen 8000 series in stock for a while, and we just got the new models last week. The 8400F, 8500G, 8600G, 8700F, and 8700G are all available in retail boxes for AM5.
 
They still run pretty hot... 65W TDP for the lower-end 6-core models and 170W TDP for the high-end 16-core models. It seems like the power efficiency improvements are mostly seen in the high-end chips.
 
Moving from the 5000 series to the 9000 series, with DDR4-3200 to DDR5 and from 8 cores to 12 or 16 cores, should be a massive upgrade! Plus, having the latest features like USB4 and PCI-e 5.0 will be great. This setup should last me another 3-4 years, just like my 5000 series did.
 
If you’re into gaming, I’d definitely wait for the X3D chips. Gaming benefits a lot from extra cache, and the 9000X3D will be even faster than the current 7000 series X3D. AMD has made significant improvements to the L2 and L1 cache, so the new L3 3D cache chips should be really impressive. The X3D is currently only $100 more, so it’s worth the wait.
 
I’m not interested until the X3D models are out, which will probably be early next year at the soonest. I might consider switching back to Intel depending on how Arrow Lake performs if it comes out earlier and surpasses the "boring" Zen 5 parts.
 
For content creators, these new CPUs are going to be very appealing right away. With a 56% improvement in Blender, 55% in Handbrake, and 21% in Cinebench, they’re going to be monsters in those areas. The 9700X will outperform the 7900X, the 9900X will easily surpass the 7950X, and the 9950X will start challenging entry-level Threadrippers and Xeons.
 
I think there could be some potential for all-core overclocking if you have enough cooling and power. This might allow the 9950X to outperform a ThreadRipper 7960X in Cinebench and possibly a 7970X in Blender. It’s common to get 5GHz all-core on Zen3 and 5.5GHz on Zen4 with good cooling and power. If you could push all cores to 5.5GHz, it would rival the lower-end 7th gen Threadrippers.
 
I think the 7900 will be easier to cool and overclock. If there’s any potential left in this design, and there might be since the 16-core model runs hotter, the 12-core might be easier to manage.
 
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