AMD Launches 7000 Series

I’ve been watching this development for the past week and I wanted to talk about some of the things I’ve seen on YouTube and other video platforms about the 7000 series. AMD has said that it will be the fastest yet. I have to wonder just how fast this CPU will be and just how hot it will be. On many videos they are claiming that it will be a constant 95 degrees Celsius and that it was designed that way. I am not sure how much I’d like my CPU to stay at the high end of the heating curve. It could just make the CPU die quicker but If AMD has thought this out then they would of made sure the CPU will live for a very long time. Some of the things I’ve seen with the AMD 7000 series are:

• 5.7 GHz peak clock speed
• Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X at launch
• 6nm I/O die, DDR5 memory controllers, PCIe 5.0 interface
• DDR5 only (no DDR4 support), up to 125% more memory bandwidth per core
• RDNA 2 integrated GPU (present on IOD, very basic and low power)
• Zen 4 architecture has a 13% IPC gain
• up to 170W TDP, 230W peak power
• AM5 Socket LGA 1718, backward compatible with AM4 coolers

This means that anyone who has an old motherboard will be required to upgrade to the newest and higher end mothers to use their new CPU.   I’ve not seen all the prices but this seems to range anywhere from 200 US Dollars to 400 US Dollars.  These prices will come down over time but for the near future they aren’t exactly going to be cheap to get.   The Prices alone for the AMD CPU’s will also add on the cost of upgrading your system.   If you have DDR5 then there will be not cost but you most people only have DDR4 memory chips and that will mean you will have to invest in DDR5 to even use this AMD series.   All in All, this could run a simple computer upgrade into the 500 dollar range or more even with the cheapest AMD 7000 series the Ryzen 5 7600x series for 324$ right now on Amazon.  Now let’s also consider people will want to keep their new CPU as cool as possible but even then you’ll never be able to stop from get to the average 95 Celsius.

INTEL launches 13th Generation

All this being said about this isn’t as much as we know about the AMD Ryzen series but we have heard from people about this CPU is that it will be backwards compatible with DDR4.   It looks like they aren’t going to force people to upgrade their motherboards if they don’t want to or cant’ afford to.   It however doesn’t mean 13 gen is going to be anywhere as friendly as before.  They’ve talked about the power requirements and also .  Intel isn’t’ being exactly very upfront about some of this because I think they had to announce this just to compete with AMD.   Some of the press release talked about more E-cores and being designed for gaming.   These cores will start releasing on Oct 20, 2022 but I am currently curious as to what types of speed they will be getting.  I’ve heard up to 6 ghz of speed but was that just fluff or can they actually do this.  Will it make computers even hotter because of the heat that it will create.  We will have to wait and see.   I am quite curious as to the speeds and heat that it creates in benchmarking.  I’ll be watching those to see but I am sure that it will be fun to watch.

Final Thoughts

Seeing what AMD and Intel are doing is making for a great time in my life because I get to see what they are trying to do and maybe one day, we will  get past the ghz speeds and be able to do much more than we thought we could ever do with computers.   I know that I will probably never be alive to witness this but if I could be, I surely would love to see the speeds and what we could do with them in the future.   I think in order to get past the heat limit we will have to come up with other ways to manufacture the CPU’s to do just that.   I’d love to see what they come up with next and we may have to just keep betting on one of them to always innovate.   I will not be upgrading but at least when I do it will be nice to know that I will have choices.   I still have a Intel 10850 CPU and that I am really happy with but it never hurts to see what’s being made.   Happy Friday all.

Will you be buying the CPU in the future or waiting until you need to upgrade?  I’d love to hear your thoughts on this?  I would love to know which one you want more AMD or INTEL?  Who is the current winner AMD or Intel?  Why not leave and tell me your thoughts.