The Ryzen 9000 series begins rolling out today. The 7th of August marks the launch of the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X, priced at £339.99 and £269.99, respectively, here in the UK. 

The Ryzen 9000 series is the first to use AMD's new Zen 5 core architecture. Codenamed ‘Granite Ridge', there will be four SKUs to start off with, a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X, a 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X, an 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X and a 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X. TDPs range from 65W for Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7, up to 120W and 170W respectively for the two top-end Ryzen 9 chips.

Due to a small delay, the Ryzen 9 processors are not launching until next week, so we'll have more on pricing for those SKUs soon. We will also have reviews ready next week. While we have already published our review of the Ryzen 5 9600X, HERE, we are still finishing up our Ryzen 7 9700X review, so stay tuned for Leo's in-depth testing later this week.

These new processors will continue to use the AM5 socket, but a new round of 800-series chipset motherboards is be on the way too. The Ryzen 9000 series uses the same I/O die as the Ryzen 7000 series, but architectural improvements have led to some significant performance gains. AMD claims its Ryzen 9 9950X is up to 23 percent faster in gaming compared to the Intel Core i9-14900K. Additionally, Zen 5 has a 16 percent IPC uplift compared to Zen 4. We will look to see how close these performance claims are to real-world scenarios in our reviews.

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