AMD has several flagship processors in its Ryzen 7000 series, but it still hasn’t given up on last-gen chips, as evidenced by its latest announcement. The company unveiled several new CPUs during an event in China, and while we’d largely expect AM5 chips at this point, we also see the previously unannounced Ryzen 5000XT series. This is good news for those still using AM4 motherboards and looking to upgrade, but details are scarce at the moment.

A leaked slide that comes from frequent material leaks HXL to X and presented by AMD at the event, it shows us some new Ryzen 8000 processors along with the Ryzen 5000XT. There are also reports of CPUs already on the market, such as the recently released Ryzen 5 5600GT and Ryzen 5 5500GT, as well as older chips from the Ryzen 3000 series and the Athlon 3000G.

Ryzen 7 8700F
Ryzen 5 8400F

China only?🤔

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Right now, we don’t know anything beyond the fact that AMD is releasing Ryzen 5000XT processors, possibly in the near future, as well as two new 8000 series processors.

The Ryzen 5000XT marks a mysterious new addition to the lineup, showing that AMD isn’t ready to ditch its old AM4 socket just yet — which is great news for those who use it. This is also not the first time AMD has launched an XT processor refresh. The same happened with the Ryzen 3000 series, which later received an XT update — but unfortunately, these processors were not very interesting to write about.

AMD’s Ryzen 3000XT processors increased their clock speeds by 100 MHz to 200 MHz compared to the base models, meaning their performance was almost identical to their counterparts. Released a year later, the XT parts were priced too high for what they had to offer and didn’t make much of a splash and were soon followed by the (much better) Ryzen 5000 series. Will AMD make the same mistake with the Ryzen 5000XT? It’s hard to expect huge performance improvements, so it all comes down to price.

Moving on to newer chips, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 7 8400F are likely binned versions of AMD’s recent APUs, the Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 7 8700G. However, the “F” name on the new chips suggests they won’t have integrated graphics, unlike the G parts. This raises the question of whether AMD kept the XDNA Neural Processing Unit (NPU) in the Ryzen 7 8700F or disabled it in parallel with integrated graphics. In any case, we’re probably looking at budget chips with these two that are hopefully priced lower than the Ryzen 8000G processors.

Will AMD make an XT3D processor to compete with some of the more affordable best gaming CPUs? More importantly, will any of these chips make it to the global market or will they be China exclusives? We will have to wait and see.

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