AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs Get Improved Support Within AIDA64

Sep 12, 2023 at 06:35am EDT
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AIDA64 has just released its latest update which adds improved support for AMD's next-gen Zen 5 CPUs among a list of various features & improvements.

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The AIDA64 v6.92 update brings with it a range of updates, mainly in terms of hardware support. As mentioned in the title above, the software monitoring and diagnostic utility now adds support for AMD's Zen 5 CPUs. Almost a year ago, HWiNFO also added preliminary support for AMD Zen 5 CPUs but the keyword is in the "Improved" support here. The AMD Zen 5 CPUs have also received support within Linux patches and we have seen some early samples leak out but there's still some time before we get to see them in action, officially.

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Other than that, the major changes to the AIDA64 include brand new AVX-512 benchmarks for Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids & Emerald Rapids CPUs while optimizing the existing AVX-512 Julia & Mandel benchmarks. These benchmarks support the AVX-512 capabilities on both Intel and AMD hardware. Do note that AMD is currently the only CPU platform that provides mainstream AVX-512 support as Intel has removed that from its recent client offerings though it might reappear with the new AVX10 ISA.

The latest AIDA64 update introduces AVX-512 optimized benchmarks for Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, and supports the latest AMD and Intel CPU platforms as well as the new graphics and GPGPU computing technologies by AMD, Intel and nVIDIA.

via HWiNFO

The 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (code-named Emerald Rapids) is Intel's next Performance-core (P-core) product. At an investor webinar on March 29, 2023, Intel announced the 5th Gen Xeon, which is sampling to data center customers and going through volume validation. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

The addition of PCIe 6.0 controllers and devices is also notable here since these will be targeting next-gen Data Center platforms by 2024-2025. The full list of changes in AIDA64 can be seen below:

New features & improvements

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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