How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
Summary
The article analyzes how AMD Ryzen CPUs achieved roughly a 50% performance uplift over two years across Zen 3 to Zen 5 (5800X3D, 7800X3D, 9800X3D). It attributes gains not to clock speed alone but to architectural widening: larger caches, wider dispatch, more ALUs, larger reorder buffers, and a SIMD upgrade to 512-bit units in Zen 5, plus a substantial transistor increase. It also hints at future Zen 6 with a potential 256-core Epyc Venice and notes the ongoing trajectory of desktop cores.