The AMD Zen 5 Microarchitecture

AMD unveiled the Zen 5 microarchitecture at Computex 2024, introducing the Ryzen AI 300 series for mobile and Ryzen 9000 series for desktop. The Ryzen AI 300 series features the XDNA 2 NPU promising 50 TOPS of AI performance and RDNA 3.5 graphics for enhanced visuals. The Zen 5 architecture brings improvements like a dual-pipe fetch and advanced branch prediction for reduced latency and increased accuracy. It boasts 16% better IPC than Zen 4, with upgrades in data bandwidth, ALUs, and FPU. The Ryzen AI 300 series includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365, offering a mix of Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores for high-performance notebooks. On the desktop side, the Ryzen 9000 series with Zen 5 cores introduces four models with up to 16 cores and 5.7 GHz boost clock. These processors support overclocking and come with unlocked CPU multipliers. The Ryzen 9000 series shares the same AM5 motherboards as the Ryzen 7000 series but incorporates Zen 5 cores for improved performance. AMD's Zen 5 microarchitecture aims to deliver significant advancements in both mobile and desktop computing.