- It's with a heavy heart
that we now pay respects to a friend who has
touched all of our lives and our wallets. A friend who stuck by our side,
whether we wanted it or not and never really changed. (sad music) The devastating loss of
Intel's performance leadership in gaming leaves a void
that for many of us, won't be easy to fill. But, friends, don't be blue, 'cause there's always team red. (upbeat bright music) SmartDeploy allows IT departments to re-image any computer model
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even been announced just yet but these all coincide with
their 3000 Series namesakes in terms of core count
and market position. AMD did make one tweak
to the lineup though, every skew but the Ryzen 5 5600X has received a $50 price bump, placing it firmly above
Intel, commanding a premium. This threw lot of folks for a
loop after the announcement. And now, we can finally
answer the question. Can they, can they do that? Our test setup is a bit
more extensive than usual because we're packing
in all four new CPUs, four of their predecessors
and three team blue CPUs to mark this potentially
momentous occasion. Getting right to business. When compared against our
Ryzen 3000 Series chips, it's clear that in games, there is a major performance advantage with the 5000 Series. In fact, that advantage
tends to hover around 20%, extremely close to AMD's
claimed 19% instructions per clock performance uplift. And this is especially true
in notoriously CPU bound games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Same goes for GTA V, CS:GO. Heck, even Civilization VI has turn times that are roughly five seconds faster. Doesn't matter what game it is, the Ryzen 5000 Series
is significantly faster compared to the last gen. But none of this is a surprise. I mean, obviously AMD
wouldn't release a new product if it was worse than their old one. Hey, hey, sh, we don't talk about that. Usually that doesn't happen. So then, how does Ryzen 5000
stack up against team blue? Ladies and gentlemen, they got 'em. (crowd cheers) Even the Ryzen 5 5600X, a CPU that costs 300 U.S. dollars beat every single one of Intel's CPUs, more often than it lost. And where it did lose, it was within a few percentage points. These are all games that
are traditionally CPU bound and holy (beep) would you look at that
performance in CS:GO? That is over 200 more frames per second. Dr. Su, please, they're already dead! Stop kicking them! Kick over to lttstore.com for a sweet CPU Pins t-shirt instead, it's Ryzen inspired,
designed, stylish and nerdy at the same time. For the love of all
that's good, lttstore.com. Moving on. Productivity is Ryzen's
traditional stomping ground. And well, what can I say? This guy stomps. Look at these single-threaded
Cinebench scores. Only the 5600X, the
lowest in the new lineup, falls below 600 points. And for reference, a Core
i9-10900K scores a measly 535. AMD continues to flex all over not only their previous generation but team blue's entire lineup, with the Ryzen 7 5800X meeting or beating Intel's Core i9, even in multi-threaded
workloads like POV-Ray, our Mozilla Firefox
compile test and Blender. Only V-Ray and Corona Renderer
were any kinder to Intel. And even that lead quickly evaporated when we introduced the cost competitor Ryzen 9 5900X to the mix, to say nothing of the 16-core 5950X. Intel just cannot catch a break here. And if you were wondering whether their upcoming Rocket Lake
CPUs are going to help. Well, after doing some
rough napkin math here, if we assume Rocket Lake's performance will be between 10 and
20% higher than 10th Gen, that basically brings
us back to status quo. So assuming that Intel
can keep core clocks as high as they are now,
the best case scenario is that Intel will get back
their gaming performance throne but because they are losing
two cores on the top end skew, that means that anywhere that
thread count is a factor, Intel's claimed IPC uplift is unlikely to make up the difference. So at a minimum then,
AMD has the gaming crown for a couple of months and will continue to absolutely pulverize
Intel in productivity, even after the 11th Gen launch. I mean, this is something
that we haven't seen in well over a decade now. Clearly then, surely this comes
at some sort of major cost in power consumption or
thermal output, right? Right? Wrong. Check this out. Under the same Blender workload, we are bang on between all of
our 3000 and 5000 Series CPUs, with none of the pairs
appreciably hotter than the other. Not only that, the 5000
Series CPUs maintained roughly the same or
even higher core clocks throughout the test. That means the improvements in performance mostly came straight from
improvements in core architecture. Power consumption bizarrely
seems to be actually down a bit for Ryzen 5000, with each CPU
drawing at worst, the same, or at best, a little bit less juice from the socket than 3000 Series. And that means we can
corroborate AMD's claims that they are literally
not drawing so much as a single watt more. This really is an incredible achievement. As for how they got here, AMD claims that all of this was done through pure engineering. And there's a lot to talk about here, starting with the demise
of the compute complex as we know it. Now they still call them CCXs, but they're not partitioned into groups of four cores anymore. And every eight-core die
is now able to access its full level three cache
without having to deal with the extra latency
involved in splitting it up. This is a big part of what gives AMD such a massive boost in performance, because as we're well aware by now, Zen loves fast memory and Zen 3 is no exception. So having a unified pool of cache memory means that Ryzen 5000
can more effectively feed all the cores all the time. And that's not all. AMD tweaked their branch predictor and their operation queue. And the TLDR of that is that
the CPU can do more per clock and there's less of a penalty for it having to back up and redo work if it mis-predicts something. and beyond just Ryzen 5000 itself. AMD's upcoming Radeon 6000 Series GPUs, will be able to work with these CPUs with a feature that they're
calling Smart Access Memory, which will allow a Ryzen
CPU to access all 16 gigs of a Radeon 6000 Series GPU's memory. In some cases providing a major speed up. Now we are eager to test
this out for ourselves once those cards launch. So make sure that you get
subscribed so you don't miss it. As for compatibility, AMD says that Ryzen 5000
CPUs will be compatible with motherboards using
400 Series chipsets as well as the recommended
500 Series chipsets. You'll need to wait
though for a BIOS update in order to use one of
these new Zen 3 CPUs in an older board. And unfortunately for early
adopters and thrift seekers, 300 Series motherboards
are officially unsupported. Makes sense, I guess. I mean, early 1st Gen Ryzen
boards had some issues and they can't guarantee
anything at this point. And frankly, AMD has
still done pretty okay with intergenerational
compatibility for the most part, especially compared to
Intel's hard and fast two generations of CPU,
two generations of boards, and then you're done. Bottom line then, if Ryzen
3000 was Ryzen matured, Ryzen 5000 is a continuation of that. I mean, we experienced
no weird stability issues even right at launch. And it also marks AMD's
returned to the upper echelon of desktop CPU performance. Intel by contrast, outright missed the holiday season this year. And if AMD is able to further refine the next big Ryzen CPU, for TSMC's shiny new
five nanometer process, Intel's holiday next year,
isn't gonna look much better. Like, to be clear, it's
not all about nanometers. Nvidia famously squeezed a full generation of extra performance without
changing process nodes when they released Maxwell in 2014. And doi, AMD, just did it today
on TSMC's seven nanometer. But Rocket Lake is
gonna be pushing Intel's geriatric 14 nanometer
node to its freaking limit unless something really
surprising happens. So... it's a big win, here's the podium. The only reason that I would advise you not to pull the trigger is if you get mondo buyer's
remorse when you buy new stuff and it gets replaced
by something way better a short time later, because
Intel and AMD's leapfrog game looks to be heating up, not slowing down. I just hope that AMD's supply
can keep up with the demand. Just like I hope you can
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protecting yourself from potential bad times today. Thanks for watching, guys. If you're looking for something else, maybe go check out our announcement video for the Ryzen 6000 Series. It's got all the juicy
details about the GPUs that are supposed to go hand
in hand with these CPUs. Did you notice AMD didn't
launch a new chipset with these? That is so cool. They're not even trying to force you to go buy a new motherboard. Motherboard guys must not
like it that much though.
~700 frames on CSGO. What the fuck?
As a CSGO player: holy fuck, the numbers at 02:26 ...
DAAANNNNGGG. Now I'm really happy that I bought B450 and AMD decided to support Zen 3 on it. I'm pretty satisfied with my 3600X right now, and a 5900X/5950X upgrade for cheap maybe 2 years from now sounds pretty awesome to me.
Bought the wrong power supply tho. Dang it past me, why did you buy a 550W power supply and not a 650 or higher?
"And never really changed " fuck that killed me
100% because each single "gen" of intel was just a few %.
I legit almost fell of my chair at that CS:GO chart
Jesus fucking christ
Slaughtered without mercy. Holy fuck.
That’s what you call a slaughter, g fucking g
<mutter to myself>My 7700K is still OK. My 7700K is still OK. My 7700K is still OK. Aaargh
Remember remember the 5th of November, the day Intel went to rot. I cannot think of a time an intel I9 should ever be purchased or bought.