AMD has announced its Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs that are based on the Zen 5 platform, and they will be available for purchase to the public soon. For now, there are four SKUs in the lineup, ranging from the Ryzen 5 9600X up to the Ryzen 9 9950X. Even though there has been a Ryzen 8000 series of processors, they were only available as APUs and for laptops, which makes the Ryzen 9000 series the true successor to the Ryzen 7000 desktop processors.