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It's a bit of a monster with 16 “Zen 5” cores and 208MB of total cache that they claim delivers 5–10% performance gains over the current Ryzen 9 9950X3D across creative workloads like DaVinci Resolve, Blender, and large-scale source code builds like Unreal Engine and Chromium.
It's set for launch on April 22nd, and you can see their announcement video below:
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The general specifications provided by AMD:
Former Codename - Granite Ridge AM5
Processor Architecture - Zen 5
# of CPU Cores - 16
Multithreading (SMT) - Yes
# of Threads - 32
Max. Boost Clock - Up to 5.6 GHz
Base Clock - 4.3 GHz
L1 Cache - 1280 KB
L2 Cache - 16 MB
L3 Cache - 192 MB
Default TDP - 200W
Processor Technology for CPU Cores - TSMC 4nm FinFET
Processor Technology for I/O Die - TSMC 6nm FinFET
Unlocked for Overclocking - Yes
CPU Socket - AM5
Supporting Chipsets - A620 , X670E , X670 , B650E , B650 , X870E , X870 , B840 , B850
Supported Extensions - AES , AVX512 , AVX2 , AVX , FMA3 , MMX-plus , SSE2 , SSE4.2 , SSE4A , SSE4.1 , SSE3 , SSSE3 , SSE , x86-64
Thermal Solution (PIB) - Not Included
Recommended Cooler - Liquid cooler recommended for optimal performance
Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax) - 95°C
See more on the AMD specs sheet.
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I wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.
It wouldn't even need 5090-like speeds! Who's gonna pay over 2 grand for one of those?? It just needs to be a decent upgrade on their current "flagship" model, which barely competes with the 5070.
Ah well. I can dream.
Quoting: scaineIt wouldn't even need 5090-like speeds! Who's gonna pay over 2 grand for one of those?? It just needs to be a decent upgrade on their current "flagship" model, which barely competes with the 5070.Similar for me. I intended to do an upgrade last year, but when the current AMD gen skipped a high end model, I left it to wait for another generation. Knowing what I know now, that may not have been the best choice.
It didn't help that my current monitor is g-sync and that switching colours meant I'd have to go Freesync and get a new monitor as well. Just didn't feel like researching that.
This CPU though, a little above my TDP interests.
Last edited by Ehvis on 26 Mar 2026 at 4:15 pm UTC
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