Ryzen 9000 processors use a new architecture and a new manufacturing node, two important changes that allow them to offer higher performance and higher efficiency compared to the current generation. AMD has also managed to reduce the consumption of this new generation, reducing the TPD of the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X to 65 watts.

This means that the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X offer not only up to 16% higher performance per core working at the same frequency, but they also do it with lower energy consumption. It’s clear to me that AMD wanted to compensate for the TDP increase they introduced with the Ryzen 7000, and it’s evident that they knew how to use TSMC’s jump to the 4nm node to meet that goal.

David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of the client business channel, commented on the topic that its 8-core processor, the Ryzen 7 9700X, It’s so good that they didn’t need a TDP higher than 65 watts to achieve your performance goals.

The CEO also emphasized that lower TDP not only translates into higher efficiency, but also implies lower temperatures. For the end user, this means that the Ryzen 7 9700X will run at much lower temperatures than the Ryzen 7 7700X, that it will be able to maintain higher operating speeds in turbo mode, and that You won’t need such a powerful cooling system.

As many of our readers are sure to know, there are several ways to improve CPU performance, and although it may seem strange at first, lowering the TDP can be one of them. This helps to reduce the heat generated and can contribute, as I said in the previous paragraph, to improve operation in turbo mode, which climb to higher levels and remain there as long as the temperature permits.

Ryzen 7 9700X specifications

• Zen Architecture 5.
• CPU chip made on TSMC’s 4nm node.
• I/O chiplet made on TSMC’s 6nm node.
• CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads at a maximum of 5.5 GHz (turbo mode).
• 32 MB of L3 cache.
• 8 MB L2 cache.
• Multiplier unlocked.
• Integrated RDNA 2 GPU with 128 shaders.
• TDP 65W.

We still don’t have details on the price of this processor, but I think it’s most likely that it will be placed eventually between 350 and 400 euros. Its launch will take place in this month of July. All Ryzen 9000s will be compatible with current AM5 motherboards, so there will be no need to buy a new motherboard to jump to this new generation, we will only need to update the BIOS to ensure full compatibility.