Ryzen 8000 is supposed to provide better gaming performance with improvements to the microarchitecture. Despite a lower clock rate, Intel’s current flagship will also be put in its place.
The 7000 is followed by 8000 – maybe not numerically, but at least when it comes to the designation of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen processors.
It will still be a few months until the possible release of the Granite Ridge CPU series. A release date in the summer or fall of 2024 is rumored, but there are already a few rumors and leaks about AMD’s Ryzen 8000 in circulation, which we summarize for you below.
Ryzen 8000: Only a few changes in the base
Already a few months ago, YouTuber AdoredTV announced the first information about the Zen 5 generation.
According to this, there are supposed to be up to 16 cores in a Ryzen 8000 processor, which have a total of two CCDs (Core Complex Die). Each of these CCDs in turn consists of two CCXs (Core Complex Die), which have so far been connected via AMD’s Infinity Fabric technology.
This connection is supposed to get an upgrade, which is called Ladder L3 Fabric – but it is unknown what performance gains are to be expected from this.
The L3 cache will probably only not be changed due to the third generation of Infinity Fabric, so a total of 64 MBytes can probably be expected here. There should also only be marginal changes in the pure clock rate, since AMD switches to a 4 nm production with Zen 5.
Ryzen 8000: Better jump prediction for more gaming performance
On a technical level, the leak from the YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead is exciting, claiming to have published some presentation slides from AMD on the upcoming Ryzen 8000 series.
In these, the microarchitecture of the chip called Nirvana is discussed in particular. One of the most important components has been improved a lot: The Branch Prediction is said to have made enormous progress.
Explained in an extremely simplified way, this jump prediction in processors is there to utilize all ALUs (arithmetic logic unit) of a CPU as evenly as possible. The earlier such jump commands and the respective target addresses can be recognized, the more efficiently and faster the CPU can work.
In Ryzen 8000, AMD is said to have managed to call these conditional branches with Zero Bubble
. What is meant by this is that the jump target buffer can be accessed without delay.
Why is this important and what does it mean for the end user? At the end of the day, modern programming languages that are used for games and applications alike – are primarily object oriented.
Accordingly, there are many method calls that need to be saved and called again. If Zen 5 can do this with the higher accuracy and speed promised by the leaker, the gains in gaming performance should be extremely pleasing.
Ryzen 9 8950X: Can the upcoming AMD CPU outperform the Intel competition?
The (YouTuber RedGamingTech) wants to give us a first preview of this performance plus. He wants to know the benchmark results of the Ryzen 9 8950X in Cinebench 2024.
So the Ryzen 9 8950X the flagship from AMD, which is expected to be equipped with 16 cores, is said to achieve a single-core benchmark of 140 points, whereas in the multi-core course it is said to be 2,400 points.
This would mean that the Ryzen 9 8950X would beat the recently released Core i9-14900K by a few percentage points – and that despite the fact that the clock rate is said to have dropped by up to 300 megahertz compared to the current Zen 4 generation.
This is exactly where the previously mentioned improvements in the chip architecture come into play. According to RedGamingTech, the same applies to the pure gaming performance of the new AMD processors – and that without the V-Cache, with which the manufacturer has made a name for itself in the past years.
This also leads to the hope that the Ryzen 8000 CPUs with the X3D suffix can be even stronger gaming processors. At least, we don’t see any reason why AMD shouldn’t offer the Infinity V cache in the next generation as well.
Now it’s your turn: What are your expectations for the upcoming Ryzen 8000 processors? Do you have a CPU upgrade coming soon, and if so, which component are you eyeing? Let us know what you think in the comments!
