The Zen 5 architecture will be one of the main protagonists of 2024. Its launch is scheduled for the second half of this year, although we don’t have an exact date yet, so we don’t know if it will be presented before the end of the summer or rather at the end of the year. All in all, I would bet on the third quarter of the year.

Numerous rumors suggest that Zen 5 will significantly improve IPC compared to the current generation, and that a CPU core based on said architecture will be up to 40% faster than a core based on Zen 4. This sounds good on paper, but it should be considered that this information talks about performance in general, that is, it takes into account the improvement of performance derived from IPC and increasing frequencies.

The truth is that talking about a 40% improvement in performance, even if we are talking about the global value and not just the CPI, sounds too good to the point that it is a little hard to believe. The new information proves us right in this sense, and according to the manager of Lenovo China, the improvement he could see so far points to 10% increase in IPC compared to Zen 4 in Cinebench R23 with one thread.

In this particular case, we are limited to CPI and the source is credible, so it goes without saying that we have to give this new information more credibility and discard the previous rumors. If confirmed, it can The overall performance improvement we see with Zen 5 ends up being between 15% and 20% at best including performance gains derived from increased operating frequencies.

Zen 5 vs. Zen 2 and Zen 3: a major improvement

The difference this new architecture will make compared to the two generations will be huge. We’ve already seen a significant jump between Zen 4 and Zen 3, and this will only increase with the arrival of AMD’s next generation. In terms of CPI, the improvement that will be achieved Zen 5 compared to Zen 3 will be at least 23%, a figure to which we must then add the gain due to increased frequencies.

If we move to Zen 2, the difference will be even greater we would be talking about at least 42% higher CPI, to which we would have to add the big difference in clock frequencies that exists between the two processors. It’s very likely that the Zen 5 will eventually outperform the Zen 2 in games by more than 50%, and that the difference will be even greater in synthetic tests like Cinebench.

For those who upgraded to Zen 4, including myself, Zen 5 This will not be a major update this encourages us to replace the CPU again, but for those who continue to use Zen 3 and Zen 2, it will be the exact opposite, an interesting option to make the jump to the latest generation platform and CPU, with which they will enjoy a great performance improvement.

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