AMD Computex 2024 Recap: Zen 5 Dominates With Ryzen 9000 Desktop CPUs, AI-Focused Strix APUs, 192-Core EPYC Turin & New Instinct AI Accelerators

This year's Computex 2024 saw AMD making huge strides in the industry, with the company's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, showcasing the next generation of computing "prowess."

AMD's Computex 2024 Keynote Showed That The Company Means Business, AI-Focused Reveals Being Center Of Attractions

AMD's progress into this year hasn't been on par compared to its past, especially since the firm has been overshadowed in the AI hype since its arch-rival NVIDIA has managed to attract the market spotlight. The Computex 2024 was seen as an opportunity for Team Red to come back, and it's safe to say that the firm did deliver our expectations, as not only did they showcase their 2nd-generation AM5 platform, but several AI-focused developments were discussed. Here's a quick rundown of AMD's Computex 2024 keynote highlights.

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AMD's Desktop Ryzen 9000 Series Finally Made Official, Zen 5 Magic Coupled Up With Significant Upgrades

What's an AMD keynote without a new desktop CPU lineup? That's precisely what AMD thought before unveiling the new Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" series. The highlight of the SKUs is the revamped Zen5 architecture, which not only features higher performance but the platform has seen a cumulative increase in capabilities. Here are some of its upgrades:

• Improved branch prediction accuracy and latency
• Higher throughput with wider pipelines and vectors
• Deeper window size across the design for more parallelism

The Zen 5 architecture has CCDs based on TSMC's 4nm process, while the IOD (Input/Output Die) utilizes TSMC's 6nm process. In terms of improvements, the Zen 5 platform gives a 2x increase in areas such as the Instruction Bandwidth for the front-end instructions, data bandwidth (L2 to L1 and L1 to FP), and AI performance (AI & AVX512 Throughput).

Combining such changes, the Zen 5 has brought in decent generational upgrades with an IPC uplift of 15% and, in some cases,