At the beginning of the Zen 3 launch event, AMD promised a 19% increase in instructions per clock compared to Zen 2. In fact, AMD promised the fastest single-threaded performance overall. This, coupled with the higher frequency of the Ryzen 5000 chips, means that AMD is trying to take the overall performance crown from Intel.

This impressive improvement comes from many areas, but the benefits of the integrated 8-core complex (CCX) are definitely key, leading to shorter latency and better access to L3 cache.

There are also performance gains due to the increased number of load stores compared to Zen 2. AMD has also increased branch prediction bandwidth to accommodate back-to-back prediction, which it calls "zero-bubble." Zen 3 also increased the execution width of floating-point and integer operations.

Dr. Lisa Su further noted, 'This is the largest generational increase since we introduced the Zen family. While this will impact performance on serious workloads, IPC is so important for gaming that it should mean that AMD could eventually close the gap and overtake Intel.

Of course, we will have to wait and see how the new Ryzen 5000 chips perform once they reach our labs.

The new Ryzen 5000 series, which will be released worldwide on November 5, consists of the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and Ryzen 9 5950X.