— Available World­wi­de Today, Tur­bo-Char­ged 12nm ‘Zen+’ pro­ces­sor deli­vers the hig­hest mul­ti­th­rea­ded per­for­mance in its class1 plus advan­ced enthu­si­ast fea­tures and a smar­ter plat­form —

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Apr. 19, 2018 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced the glo­bal avai­la­bi­li­ty of its 2nd Gene­ra­ti­on Ryzen™ Desk­top pro­ces­sors, start­ing with four models opti­mi­zed for gamers, crea­tors, and hard­ware enthu­si­asts: Ryzen™ 7 2700X, Ryzen™ 7 2700, Ryzen™ 5 2600X, and Ryzen™ 5 2600 pro­ces­sors. Using the world’s first 12nm pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy, the­se 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors can offer up to 15% hig­her gam­ing per­for­mance [2],[3] than 1st Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors, while deli­ve­ring the hig­hest mul­tipro­ces­sing per­for­mance you can get on a main­stream desk­top PC[4], and enhan­ced capa­bi­li­ties inclu­ding Pre­cis­i­on Boost 2 and Exten­ded Fre­quen­cy Ran­ge 2 (XFR 2), an included Wraith Coo­ler, unlo­cked per­for­mance acces­sed with the new Ryzen™ Mas­ter Uti­li­ty [5], and more.

 “Last year we star­ted chan­ging the PC indus­try with the intro­duc­tion of our first wave of Ryzen pro­ces­sors – deli­ve­ring more per­for­mance, fea­tures, and choice to our cus­to­mers than befo­re. Our 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs con­ti­nue this pur­su­it by rai­sing the stan­dards for enthu­si­ast gamers and crea­tors,” said Jim Ander­son, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Com­pu­ting and Gra­phics Busi­ness Group, AMD. “With this launch we’re also demons­t­ra­ting that we are just get­ting star­ted, that we are com­mit­ted to deli­ve­ring a mul­ti-gene­ra­tio­nal road­map of lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance pro­ces­sors that will dri­ve inno­va­ti­on and com­pe­ti­ti­on into the indus­try for years to come.”

Buil­ding on the ori­gi­nal award-win­ning 2017 “Zen” archi­tec­tu­re, the 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors com­bi­ne the impro­ved “Zen+” core with other major per­for­mance, fea­ture, and plat­form advancements.

Per­for­mance Advances

The new “Zen+” core increa­ses IPC [6] and redu­ces both cache and memo­ry laten­ci­es [7] com­pared to 1st Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors. AMD’s Sen­se­MI [8] tech­no­lo­gy is updated with Pre­cis­i­on Boost 2, which enables 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors to intel­li­gent­ly ana­ly­ze the workload and com­pu­ting envi­ron­ment and con­tri­bu­tes in deli­ve­ring the hig­hest mul­tipro­ces­sing per­for­mance in their clas­ses [1].

Hig­her effec­ti­ve clock speeds on all 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sor cores can impro­ve the per­for­mance of Ryzen pro­ces­sors in popu­lar real-world appli­ca­ti­ons like games, crea­ti­vi­ty and pro­duc­ti­vi­ty appli­ca­ti­ons [2],[3],[4],[5]. Gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces are beau­tiful­ly smooth across popu­lar reso­lu­ti­ons from 1080p Ultra to 1440p High to 4K. And, sel­ect 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors offer up to 20 per­cent fas­ter con­tent crea­ti­on than the com­pe­ti­ti­on [9], [10].

With XFR 2 tech­no­lo­gy on all AM4 plat­forms with 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors, enthu­si­ast PC buil­ders will enjoy even hig­her per­for­mance [11] in the pre­sence of pre­mi­um coo­ling [12],[13].

Fea­ture Advances 

Desi­gned with enthu­si­asts and high per­for­mance in mind, 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors fea­ture sold­e­red inte­gra­ted heat­s­prea­ders for super­la­ti­ve ther­mal trans­fer [14], and unlo­cked mul­ti­pli­ers for simp­le, powerful over­clo­cking [5] con­trol. Per­for­mance tuning, enab­led by the new Ryzen Mas­ter 1.3 soft­ware, is easier than ever befo­re, and now offers per-core over­clo­cking [5] with auto­ma­tic iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on of the poten­ti­al­ly fas­test cores.

For the first time, the enti­re line of 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors include a world class AMD Wraith Coo­ler insi­de the retail box. The flag­ship AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU includes the new Wraith Prism coo­ler fea­turing pre­mi­um ther­mal per­for­mance, an upgraded fan pro­fi­le, and enhan­ced light­ing capa­bi­li­ties with per-RGB controls. 

Plat­form Advances 

Opti­mi­zed for the 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors, new AMD X470 chip­set is available on Socket AM4 mother­boards now. In addi­ti­on to enhan­ced memo­ry com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty and over­clo­cking [5] capa­bi­li­ty, the­se new mother­boards come with a free down­load of the new AMD Store­MI tech­no­lo­gy soft­ware, which com­bi­nes the speed of an SSD and the capa­ci­ty of a tra­di­tio­nal spin­ning hard disk into a sin­gle easy-to-mana­ge dri­ve for fas­ter, smar­ter, and easier sto­rage [15].

Com­pa­ti­ble with all cur­rent AM4 pro­ces­sors, the new X470 mother­boards aug­ment the exis­ting 300-series mother­boards, which are also com­pa­ti­ble with the new 2nd Gen Ryzen pro­ces­sors with a firm­ware (BIOS) update. Many in-mar­ket mother­boards alre­a­dy come with the updated BIOS, indi­ca­ted by a “Ryzen Desk­top 2000 Rea­dy” label on the package.

Sup­port­ing Resources

• • Learn more about 2nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD Ryzen desk­top processors
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