AMD showed off its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops, marking the most impressive leap forward in the AMD lineup. The chipmaker claims that the new Ryzen 5900X alone is "the best gaming CPU in the world," and PC gamers will definitely want to try it out.

Here's everything you need to know about the Ryzen 5000 series, including pricing, release dates, and performance information on the new chips.

Gamers won't have to wait long to get their hands on the Ryzen 5000. The first chips will be available on November 5, with the basic Ryzen 5 5600 X being the first in the lineup.

CEO Lisa Su took the stage at AMD's online event on Thursday (October 8) to unveil the official CPU lineup. The 9GHz Ryzen 9 5950X at $799, the 12-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5900X at $549 with a maximum boost speed of 4.8GHz, the Ryzen 7 5800X at $449 with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a maximum boost speed of 4.7GHz, the 6-core, 12 threads, maximum boost speed of 4.6 GHz, and a Ryzen 5 5600X with 6 cores, 12 threads, and a maximum boost speed of 4.6 GHz for $299.

The new line promises an average performance increase of 26% for most customers, although TDP and core count remain the same; the 5000 series processors continue to utilize AMD's 7-nanometer process and offer 19% more instructions per cycle. These new chips are expected to replace last year's Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 desktop options.

AMD also discussed a series of benchmarks, revealing that the Ryzen 9 5900X outperformed chips like the Intel i9-10900K in titles like Dota 2 and League of Legends. Since these are first-party benchmarks, we will have to wait until the chips are available to see what the actual performance is like.

AMD claims that the 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X itself has "the best single-threaded performance of any desktop gaming processor" and "the best multicore performance of any desktop gaming processor," according to Wccftech and the Rocket Lake processors will be 14-nanometer chips, but will likely launch with a different CPU core architecture; it is expected that backports from the 10nm Willow Cove and Sunny Cove designs may be utilized. Intel has not yet shared much about the new line.

It will be interesting to see how the two lines compare as we get closer to Intel's announcement. We expect to hear much more from Intel in the coming months.