: Game On: A new generation of gaming processors #IndiaNEWS #Columns By Aditya Deshbandhu The last week has been big for gamers, especially those of the PC kind with the announcement of AMD’s new

Game On: A new generation of gaming processors #IndiaNEWS #Columns
By Aditya Deshbandhu
The last week has been big for gamers, especially those of the PC kind with the announcement of AMD’s new line of microprocessors. Dubbed the 7000 series, the chips are expected to run faster and cooler owing to AMD’s Zen 4 architecture. Based on a 5 NM process, the 7000 series is expected to deliver a minimum performance boost of 13 per cent across a variety of applications.
Along with the improvement in performance, the microchips are also expected to natively support PCI express 5 and DDR5 memory, upgrades that are essential to gamers who wish to buy the latest graphic cards and RAM chips. For those who are not inclined to buy dedicated video cards, the 7000 series of processors should also offer RDNA2 level of graphics through the integrated chipset.
What do these developments mean?
Its important for us as gamers to demystify and make sense of the corporate tech speak here and understand what these improvements mean to an everyday computer user who plays games. The performance boost while at 13 per cent can be larger across specific games and applications as not all of them will be impacted in the same way.
Similarly, the numbers may not be as high if your other hardware like RAM, hard drives, and PCIE are not up to date. The older hardware is very likely to end up creating bottlenecks to some degree. However, if you somehow do manage to have all of them working at the right bandwidth, performances could be higher than expected too.
With regards to the RDNA2 claim at the integrated chipset level, this is something I believe needs tempering. At a time when AMD has just announced RDNA3 (alongside the 7000 series), to expect the new processors’ integrated chipsets to deliver visual capabilities on par with the best AMD dedicated graphic cards from last generation seems a bit too much. I expect a bump in visual capabilities and the ability to offer raytracing to a certain limited degree but hoping for anything more would just be optimistic to the point of foolishness.
How much do they cost?
The pricing for the 7000 series is one of its strong points as AMD has bucked the trend of increasing prices all around and has decided to price this generation’s hardware at the same prices of last year or cheaper.
The top-end Ryzen 9 7950x which is expected to replace the 5950x is for example cheaper than the 5950x at USD 699. With all the processors likely to receive generous boosts in terms of Cache memory (due to the success of the 5950x) these chips should be incredible for gaming.
Model Cores/Threads Boost10/ Base Frequency Total Cache PCIe® TDP Price (USD)
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16C/32T Up to 5. 7 / 4.

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