Background on AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs
AMD's Ryzen family of desktop processors has been a solid mainstream workstation CPU line for many years now. The Ryzen 9000 Series continues to improve upon AMD's chiplet design with the new "Zen 5" architecture built on a 4nm manufacturing process. This iteration is mostly focused on increasing efficiency, by reducing power usage, with only modest performance gains over the previous Ryzen 7000 Series. Of course, all of AMD's core features including Turbo Core, SMT, support for DDR5 memory, AVX-512, and PCI Express 5.0 are still present. Together, these efficiency improvements and features create a great foundation for workstation PCs.
Some AMD Ryzen processors have the X3D designation in their model number. This indicates versions that have an additional 64MB of fast cache memory attached to the CPU, increasing performance in certain types of applications. The trade-off is higher manufacturing cost, but when using software that can benefit from the extra cache these models are a great choice!
For details about how AMD Ryzen CPUs perform in different applications, check out our many processor (CPU) articles.
This top-end X3D model offers a fantastic blend of high core count for heavily-threaded workloads like video editing while also retaining high performance in lightly-threaded tasks that can benefit from its extra cache - like gaming and photo editing. This is probably the most well-rounded CPU in its generation.
Model: AMD 100-100000719WOF
Specifications
| Product Line | Ryzen |
| Code Name | Granite Ridge AM5 |
| Socket | AM5 |
| Process | 4 nm |
| Total Number of Threads | 32 |
| Total Number of Cores | 16 |
| Base Clock Speed | 4.3 GHz |
| Simultaneous Multi-Threading | Yes |
| Turbo Boost | Yes |
| Max. Turbo Boost | 5.7 GHz |
| Thermal Output | 170 W |
| Max Temperature | 95 C |
Cache | |
| L2 | 16MB |
| L3 | 128MB |
Onboard Graphics | |
| Processor Type | AMD Radeon Graphics |
| Core Speed | 2,200 MHz |
| Cores on Die | 2 |
Memory Specification | |
| Memory Type | DDR5 |
| Maximum Frequency | 5600 |
| ECC Support | Yes |
| Registered Support | No |
