![]() LGA offers way more pin density than PGA, allowing motherboard manufacturers to pack more features into their motherboards. ![]() AMD has opted to adopt Intel’s socket of choice for two main reasons. Socket AM4 as amazing as it was can no longer keep up with the advancement of PC hardware technology so it had to be ditched in favor of a newer, more up-to-date solution.Ĭheck out our AM5 motherboard piece if you want to know more.ĭon’t panic though, AMD still plans on supporting AM4 through BIOS updates.ĪM5 brings with it a new socket type, LGA 1718, named so for its number of pins. You might be surprised to know that AMD has finally ditched AM4 and has opted to upgrade to the AM5 socket. AMD aimed for an IPC increase of 10% over Zen 3 when designing the Zen 4 CPU core, but overshot the mark and achieved a massive 13% IPC increase. More transistors mean more instruction processing capabilities, this in turn means the CPU core’s IPC is higher. Lots of transistors put together are capable of complex instruction, so the more you have the better. Transistors are little yes/no gates that comprise the fundamentals of computing as we know it. This is compared to the 7nm process the 5000 series CPUs were built upon.Įssentially, the smaller the manufacturing process, the smaller the transistors inside the CPU core. 5nm manufacturing processĪMD’s new CPU architecture is named Zen 4 and is built upon TSMC’s 5nm manufacturing process. So to kick things off, let’s start with the architecture itself. ![]() There’s a lot that has changed in AMD’s newest CPU generation. Some of which aren’t accurate, more on that later. ![]() As you can see, even for a CPU considered to be in the “low end” of the Zen 4 generation, it still has a pretty impressive list of specifications. ![]()
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