While it retained the Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, and Ryzen 7 series, it introduced a new AMD Threadripper Series, a set of high-end CPUs. In 2018, AMD introduced a new set of CPUs with an improved 12nm manufacturing process and Zen+ architecture. The Ryzen 5 CPU is the mainstream alternative to Intel Core i5, whereas Ryzen 7 compares favorably with the Intel Core i7 CPUs. The AMD Ryzen 3 chip is an entry-level CPU similar to the Intel Core i3 processor. It became easy to compare these chips with their Intel counterparts. Simple, isn’t it?īesides, there is a specific reason why we have such numbering in the Ryzen family. The bigger the numeral, the better is the specification. Initially, AMD mainstream Ryzen chips comprised three families, Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, and Ryzen 7.