Despite the launch of the AM5 platform and the start of talk about the Zen 5 architecture, it seems that AMD still has some stock of last generation Ryzen 5000 processors. In a surprising move, AMD announced the return of the AM4 platform to life by launching a new series of processors known as Ryzen 5000XT.
This plan was revealed during a meeting with channel partners as part of the AMD Advantage Club event. This series aims to revive the AM4 platform and offer new alternatives to users.
The Ryzen 5000XT series is similar to the Ryzen 3000XT series that was released in 2020 as the last update to the Ryzen 3000 family of processors before the launch of the Ryzen 5000. The 3000XT series faced some criticism due to a slight increase in frequencies (about 100-200 MHz) without significant improvements compared to Zen 2 processors.
Details of the Ryzen 5000XT series are still vague, but the increase in frequencies is expected to be the main change. We hope that AMD will avoid repeating the same mistakes and provide tangible improvements to users.
On the other hand, the slide that reviewed the 5000XT series revealed two new processors: Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F. There is not enough information available about these two processors at the present time, but it is possible that they are 4nm “Hawk Point” processors with integrated graphics processors (iGPUs) disabled, similar to Intel processors with similar designations.
a summary:
The AM4 platform comes back to life with the Ryzen 5000XT series processors.
The increase in frequencies is expected to be the main change.
Two new processors have been revealed: Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F.
Details of the 5000XT series and 8700F and 8400F processors are still vague.
