In other words, half of the CPUs AMD is selling today are still made for the old AM4 socket. And, of course, the last family of chips made for the AM4 socket was the Ryzen 5000. The Ryzen 7000 and ...

"You'd be surprised. On a global scale, the split between AM4 and AM5 is not far off from 50/50." So, says David McAfee, AMD head of Client Channel Business, of AMD's current CPU sales (via ...

However, it's not all behavior. As PassMark points out on X, the two-year-old AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX remains the top-performing CPU in early 2025. Nothing AMD or Intel has released in ...

With higher clock speeds, as well as new features such as AMD 3D V-cache, a CPU upgrade can keep your GPU fed with frame data at a faster rate than your old chip, preventing bottlenecks in your rig.