How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

kgwgk

It would have been funny if the "how" had been dropped to end with "Did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

nly

Am I missing something? Max boost went up by only 15% but the base frequency went up 38% Better thermals maybe? Less throttling?

kristianp

2 years sounds very fast. It seems to be because the 3d cache SKUs of each generation were released at different stages. The Zen 3 one was a later variant. First zen 3 November 5, 2020 with desktop processors. First desktop Ryzen 9000 processors on August 8, 2024. So the generations were about 4 years apart.

paulkrush

2022 to 2024

Yokolos

I suspect the improvements are even more dramatic going from Zen 1 through to Zen 5. AMD has really hit the jackpot with how scalable the Ryzen CPU is considering how they're able to improve the performance from year to year. This is a stark difference to the FX series during the 2010s, which saw very small YoY performance increases by comparison. Ryzen really is AMD's equivalent to what Nehalem/Core was for Intel back in the mid 2000s.