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AMD Ryzen 9000 review: Impressive efficiency, with bugs and so-so speed boosts

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AMD 's new Zen 5 architecture has been released for nearly two years .

The new chips are the 6 -core, 8 -core 9700X , 12 -core 9900X , and 16 -Core 9950X.

The focus on power efficiency will give many users less-power-hungry chips that run a bit cooler.

The AM5 platform's mandatory BIOS Flashback support means you don't need to use weird, kludgy hacks.

AMD 's new Zen 5 processor is built using TSMC 's N4P process, an upgrade from the 5 nm process used for the AMD 7000 series.

The Zen 5 architecture itself and the new core chiplet die ( CCD ) combine up to eight Zen 5 cores together.

Zen 5 has a full 512 -bit data path for AVX512 instructions.