AMD’s turn to drop the ball?

2024 hasn’t been a banner year for CPUs, from any company.

OPINION | TRADE CHAT With Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs falling over, AMD must have been enjoying the view – until its new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs rolled out. So, is AMD’s CPU a minor stumble or game-changing fumble? The first Ryzen-branded CPUs launched way back in summer 2017. From there, AMD iterated, improved, and generally delivered. Each new Ryzen generation was an unambiguous step up from its predecessor. That’s impressive, but it arguably comes to an end with the new Ryzen 9000 generation. Certainly, Ryzen 9000’s ‘new’ Zen 5 architecture is disappointing by pretty much every measure. When it comes to IPC or instructions per clock, it’s essentially a single-digit percentage improvement. There’s talk of issues around internal latency impacting performance, but whatever the reason, there’s no getting round the…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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