AMD Ryzen 8000 Series Release Date, Specifications, Price, and Benchmarks

the graphics card market is currently not in its best condition with record prices. On the other hand, the CPU market could be in its healthiest state thanks to the very competitive approach of AMD and Intel.

All five generations Ryzen have provided great value for customers, and Intel 12^e (Alder Lake) and 13^e (Raptor Lake) Gen The processors were also very competitive.

In 2022, choosing a processor was more complicated than ever as Ryzen 7000 and Raptor Lake both offered excellent value for money and remarkable performance. However, Intel had a slight price advantage due to DDR4 support.

But what about AMD Ryzen 8000 Series or Zen 5? How will it perform against previous generations and next generation Intel processors, Meteor Lake?

Well, we will try our best to give you the answer to these questions through various sources, leaks and rumors.

Let’s go!

Release date

Without more information from AMD, it’s nearly impossible to know precisely when the new series of processors will drop.

But, based on AMD’s roadmap and the two-year gap between Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 7000 Series, it’s likely that Ryzen 8000 will be released in 2024.

Features

The only confirmed information for Zen 5 so far is that it will be on an “advanced node”. Our assumption is that AMD will use TSMC’s 3nm Process Node. The 5nm node brought substantial performance gains over the 7nm node of Ryzen 5000, so we expect great things from Zen 5.

With Ryzen 7000, AMD announced the AM5 socket and called for support until 2025. In other words, Ryzen 8000 processors will use the AM5 platform and will probably work with the latest generation motherboards (A620, B650 and X670).

Moreover, there are rumors that AMD’s future architecture could be similar to Intel’s big.LITTLE/hybrid processorsthat is, dividing the processor into performance and efficiency cores.

This will help AMD pack many more cores into a processor while reducing power consumption.

According to AMD, this new microarchitecture will (naturally) bring better performance and efficiency. They will also implement AI and machine learning optimizations, which could mean further performance improvements in the future.

Ryzen 8000 processors will likely ship with 3D virtual cache for even more gaming performance. However, we don’t know if AMD will add 3D stacked cache to all processors or just a few, like they did with Ryzen 7000.

Price

We’re still a long way from launch day to know the official price for the Ryzen 8000 series, but we imagine AMD will stick close to the prices of the Ryzen 7000 processors.

Although it should be noted that the initial price of the Ryzen 7000 processors was not exactly satisfactory. Intel’s Raptor Lake processors sometimes offered better performance while costing less.

Here are our price estimates:

• Ryzen 5 8600X – $279
• Ryzen 7 8700X – $349
• Ryzen 9 8900X – $549
• Ryzen 9 8950X – $699

If AMD decides to launch regular and X3D variants, processors with V-Cache 3D should cost more. Here’s what we think the price will look like:

• Ryzen 7 8800X3D – $509
• Ryzen 9 8900X3D – $649
• Ryzen 9 8950X3D – $799

For now, that’s all we can share regarding AMD’s next-gen processors. But, as we find more information throughout 2023 and 2024, we’ll be sure to update this article accordingly!