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AMD released its highly anticipated Ryzen 5000 line of processors this week. Based on the new Zen 3 architecture, the chips were introduced in early October and have since racked up performance records in many leaked benchmarks. Their first reviews demonstrated the efficiency of the processors, which far outperformed the entire 10th generation Intel Comet Lake-S family.
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The most popular among the launches, which is gaining attention for its high cost-effectiveness ratio, is the Ryzen 5 5600X. With 6 cores and 12 threads running between 3.7 GHz and 4.6 GHz, the mid-size processor offers gaming performance that outstrips the Intel Core i9 10900K, while maintaining good performance in professional applications.
Present in the hands of certain specialized sites, the Ryzen 5 5600X has just been dismantled by Twitter user Fritzchens Fritz, known for having disassembled and photographed hardware components in general in infrared to show them in detail. Unfortunately the chip did not survive due to its thermal interface soldered to the chip, but we were able to better understand the changes that AMD made with the Zen 3 architecture.
A Ryzen processor is made up of the Core Complex Die (CCD), or the chip itself in a very simplified way, which in turn has the Core Complex (CCX), or all the cores. The Ryzen 3000 line contained two CCXs, with 4 cores and 16 MB of cache each. This separation caused communication delays between the two CCXs, which ultimately resulted in a loss of performance.
With the Zen 3 architecture, AMD increased the number of cores in each CCX to 8 and unified the cache, allowing each core to have full and fast access to the 32MB cache. This and other changes are responsible for the huge jump in performance we’ve seen in testing.
Fritz’s photos show us how the CCX is organized. To facilitate understanding of the location of each component, the Twitter user Locuza overlaid the CCX image with the names of each of the parts that make up the processor. Thanks to this, it was possible to notice all the changes made by AMD, such as the repositioning of the different components and an increase in the size of the core compared to the previous generation processors.
The Ryzen 5 5600X went on the market on November 5, at a cost of $ 399. The processor is already in pre-sale in Brazil for R $ 2,379, but it still has no date to debut here.
