AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desk­top Proces­sors built on new “Zen 3” core archi­tec­tu­re deli­ver across-the board lea­der­ship per­for­mance for gamers and con­tent crea­tors 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) intro­du­ced the high­ly anti­ci­pa­ted AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sor lin­e­up powered by the new “Zen 3” archi­tec­tu­re. Offe­ring up to 16 cores, 32 threads and 72 MB of cache in the top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 5000 series pro­ces­sors domi­na­te in hea­vi­ly threa­ded workloads¹ and power effi­ci­en­cy², while the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X pro­ces­sor offers up to a 26% gene­ra­tio­nal uplift in gam­ing per­for­mance³. With exten­si­ve impro­ve­ments throug­hout the core inclu­ding a uni­fied 8‑core com­plex with direct access to 32MB L3 cache, the new AMD “Zen 3” core archi­tec­tu­re deli­vers a 19% gene­ra­tio­nal increase in ins­truc­tions per cycle (IPC)⁴, the lar­gest sin­ce the intro­duc­tion of “Zen” pro­ces­sors in 2017.

“Our com­mit­ment with each gene­ra­ti­on of our Ryzen pro­ces­sors has been to build the best PC pro­ces­sors in the world. The new AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desk­top Pro­ces­sors extend our lea­der­ship from IPC⁴, power effi­ci­en­cy² to sin­gle-core⁵, mul­ti-core per­for­mance¹ and gam­ing⁶,” said Saeid Mosh­kela­ni, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, cli­ent busi­ness unit, AMD. “Today, we are extre­me­ly proud to deli­ver what our com­mu­ni­ty and cus­to­mers have come to expect from Ryzen pro­ces­sors – domi­nant mul­ti-core¹ and sin­gle-core per­for­mance⁵ and true gam­ing lea­der­ship⁶ — all within a broad eco­sys­tem of mother­boards and chip­sets that are drop-in rea­dy for AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desk­top Processors.”

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desk­top Processors
Fea­turing a remar­kab­le 19% IPC increase⁴ over the pri­or gene­ra­ti­on in PC workloads, the “Zen 3” archi­tec­tu­re pushes gam­ing and con­tent crea­ti­on per­for­mance lea­der­ship^6,1 to a new level. “Zen 3” archi­tec­tu­re redu­ces laten­cy from acce­le­ra­ted core and cache com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and dou­bles the direct­ly acces­si­ble L3 cache per core while deli­ve­ring up to 2.8X more per­for­mance-per-watt ver­sus the com­pe­ti­ti­on².

The top of the line 16 core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X offers:

• The hig­hest sin­gle-thread per­for­mance of any desk­top gam­ing pro­ces­sor⁵
• The most mul­ti-core per­for­mance of any desk­top gam­ing pro­ces­sor and any desk­top pro­ces­sor in a main­stream CPU socket¹

The 12 core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X offers the best gam­ing expe­ri­ence by:

• Avera­ge of 7% fas­ter in 1080p gam­ing across sel­ect game titles than the com­pe­ti­ti­on⁷
• Avera­ge of 26% fas­ter in 1080p gam­ing across sel­ect titles gene­ra­tio­nal­ly⁸

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desk­top Pro­ces­sor Line-up and Availability

MODEL	CORES/ THREADS	TDP (Watts)	BOOST9/BASE FREQ. (GHz)	TOTAL CACHE	COOLER	SEP (USD)		EXPECTED AVAILABILITY
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X	16C/32T	105W	Up to 4.9 / 3.4	72MB	N/A	$799		Novem­ber 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X	12C/24T	105W	Up to 4.8 / 3.7	70MB	N/A	$549		Novem­ber 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X	8C/16T	105W	Up to 4.7 / 3.8	36MB	N/A	$449		Novem­ber 5, 2020
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X	6C/12T	65W	Up to 4.6 / 3.7	35MB	Wraith Ste­alth	$299		Novem­ber 5, 2020

AMD 500 series mother­boards are rea­dy for AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors with a simp­le BIOS update. This broad eco­sys­tem sup­port and rea­di­ness includes over 100 AMD 500 series mother­boards from all major mother­board manu­fac­tu­r­ers. AMD Ryzen 5000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors announ­ced today are expec­ted to be available for purcha­se glo­bal­ly on Novem­ber 5, 2020.

AMD Ryzen Equip­ped to Win Game Bundle

The AMD Ryzen Equip­ped to Win game bund­le pro­gram is back with the high­ly anti­ci­pa­ted next chap­ter in the Far Cry® series, Far Cry® 6. Cus­to­mers who purcha­se an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X pro­ces­sor bet­ween Novem­ber 5th, 2020 and Decem­ber 31st, 2020 will recei­ve a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of Far Cry® 6 Stan­dard Edi­ti­on – PC digi­tal when released¹⁰. Addi­tio­nal­ly, cus­to­mers who purcha­se an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT pro­ces­sor bet­ween Octo­ber 20th, 2020 and Decem­ber 31st, 2020 will also recei­ve a free copy of Far Cry® 6 Stan­dard Edi­ti­on – PC digi­tal¹⁰.

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About AMD
For 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages. 

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement
This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series desk­top pro­ces­sors, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; the abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts;  the impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; the impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; the rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the secu­red cre­dit faci­li­ty; the com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing for rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the poten­ti­al dilu­ti­ve effect if the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 are con­ver­ted; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft Cor­po­ra­ti­on and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to ser­vice its debt obli­ga­ti­ons or meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments; AMD’s abili­ty to repurcha­se its out­stan­ding debt in the event of a chan­ge of con­trol; the cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; the impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness; the impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; the avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; the effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol the sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; and the impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Quar­ter­ly Report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended June 27, 2020.

Cont­act:
Sophia Hong
AMD Communications
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sophia.hong@amd.com

Lau­ra Graves
AMD Inves­tor Relations
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Laura.Graves@amd.com

¹ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020. Mul­ti-core per­for­mance eva­lua­ted with Cine­bench R20 nT with a simi­lar­ly con­fi­gu­red Ryzen 9 5950X vs. a Core i9-10900K. Results may vary. R5K-005
² Test­ing by AMD Per­for­mance Labs as of 09/01/2020 using Cine­bench R20 nT ver­sus sys­tem wall power during full load CPU test using a Core i9-10900K, Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 9 3950X, and a Ryzen 9 5950X con­fi­gu­red with: 2x8GB DDR4-3600, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, Sam­sung 860 Pro SSD, Noc­tua NH-D15s coo­ler, and an open-air test bench with no addi­tio­nal power draw sources. Results may vary. R5K-007
³ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020 mea­su­ring gam­ing per­for­mance of a Ryzen 9 5900X desk­top pro­ces­sor vs. a Ryzen 9 3900XT in 11 popu­lar titles at 1920x1080, the High image qua­li­ty pre­set, and the newest gra­phics API available for each title (e.g. DirectX® 12 or Vul­kan™ or DirectX® 11). Results may vary. R5K-009
⁴ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020. IPC eva­lua­ted with a sel­ec­tion of 25 workloads run­ning at a locked 4GHz fre­quen­cy on 8‑core “Zen 2” Ryzen 7 3800XT and “Zen 3” Ryzen 7 5800X desk­top pro­ces­sors con­fi­gu­red with Win­dows® 10, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (451.77), Sam­sung 860 Pro SSD, and 2x8GB DDR4-3600. Results may vary. R5K-003
⁵ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020 with a Ryzen 9 5950X pro­ces­sor vs a Core i9-10900K con­fi­gu­red with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Ti gra­phics, Sam­sung 860 Pro SSD, 2X8 DDR4-3600, Win­dows 10 and a Noc­tua NH-D15s coo­ler. Sin­gle-core per­for­mance eva­lua­ted with Cine­bench R20 1T bench­mark. Results may vary. R5K-004
⁶ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 9/2/2020 based on the avera­ge FPS across 40 PC games at 1920x1080 with the High image qua­li­ty pre­set using an AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X pro­ces­sor vs. Core i9-10900K. Results may vary. R5K-002
⁷ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020 mea­su­ring the Gam­ing per­for­mance of a Ryzen 9 5900X vs a Core i9-10900K in 11 popu­lar titles at 1920x1080, the High image qua­li­ty pre­set, and the newest gra­phics API available for each title (e.g. DirectX® 12 or Vul­kan™ over DirectX® 11, or DirectX® 11 over DirectX® 9). GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (451.77), 2x8GB DDR4-3600, Noc­tua NH-D15s, and Win­dows 10 May 2020 Update (build 2004) used for all titles. Results may vary. R5K-010
⁸ Test­ing by AMD per­for­mance labs as of 09/01/2020 mea­su­ring gam­ing per­for­mance of a Ryzen 9 5900X desk­top pro­ces­sor vs. a Ryzen 9 3900XT in 11 popu­lar titles at 1920x1080, the High image qua­li­ty pre­set, and the newest gra­phics API available for each title (e.g. DirectX® 12 or Vul­kan™ or DirectX® 11). Results may vary. R5K-009
⁹ Max boost for AMD Ryzen Pro­ces­sors is the maxi­mum fre­quen­cy achie­va­ble by a sin­gle core on the pro­ces­sor run­ning a burs­ty sin­gle-threa­ded workload. Max boost will vary based on seve­ral fac­tors, inclu­ding, but not limi­t­ed to: ther­mal pas­te; sys­tem coo­ling; mother­board design and BIOS; the latest AMD chip­set dri­ver; and the latest OS updates. GD-150
¹⁰ Limi­t­ed time offer available through par­ti­ci­pa­ting retail­ers only. 18+ only. Fol­lo­wing purcha­se, pro­duct must be instal­led on sys­tem whe­re cou­pon code will be rede­e­med. Void whe­re pro­hi­bi­ted. Resi­den­cy and addi­tio­nal limi­ta­ti­ons app­ly. Full offer terms at www.amdrewards.com/terms.