Rumor: AMD Zen 6 Processors Could Arrive in Configurations Ranging from 6 Up to 24 Cores

If I can go from 16 cores to 24 as a drop in... and maintain or increase per core max speeds.. I could be interested.
 
I'll be happy with a 16 core X3D part. Ought to be good enough for me to ride off into the sunset with as I can't imagine needing to replace something like that for around a decade and by that time I might not even care.
 
Grimlakin said:
reason for my 1300 watt power supply
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That's something I'm considering but hoping I don't need to do. Between the undervolted 5090 settings I'm using, and 9800X3D, my current system TDP usually hangs around 300-500W during heavy gaming and I'm using an ITX 1000W 80+ Platinum but I've been keeping an eye on the 1200-1300 versions which have started coming out in the last year or so. I know can undervolt the 9800X3D but it rarely uses more than 70W and mostly eats 30-50W so much to gain there. However, a 16-core monster could be another story.
 

If true, this could enable Intel to sell a few thousand (or who knows, even hundreds of thousands?) NVL chips to impatient people bored with their Zen 5 or earlier CPUs.

Maybe AMD doesn't expect NVL to raise the performance bar enough to care about launching Zen 6 first. It might also mean that they want to see what they are up against and tweak their CPUs before launch for maximum (or minimum, as the case may be) performance.
 
"Well-known AMD hardware information leaker, HXL, claims that single CCD processors will include 6, 8, 10, and 12 core variations."
YES PLEASE!!!

Peter_Brosdahl said:
Between the undervolted 5090 settings I'm using, and 9800X3D, my current system TDP usually hangs around 300-500W during heavy gaming
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Impressive!

Peter_Brosdahl said:
I know can undervolt the 9800X3D but it rarely uses more than 70W and mostly eats 30-50W so much to gain there
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Yeah
 
Wont having more cores gum up the works, so to speak? Maybe some of the cores get to 6ghz but how many really?

I am also wondering about cache issues like coherence and when threads jump cores. After all more cores more places and ways to jump. Of course if AMD has a better/newer way to interconnect the CCD's that could be huge.
 
Elf_Boy said:
Wont having more cores gum up the works, so to speak? Maybe some of the cores get to 6ghz but how many really?

I am also wondering about cache issues like coherence and when threads jump cores. After all more cores more places and ways to jump. Of course if AMD has a better/newer way to interconnect the CCD's that could be huge.
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That problem is largely sorted at the professional level and has been for some time. Amd has 96 core single socket solutions and has for a while.
 
Grimlakin said:
That problem is largely sorted at the professional level and has been for some time. Amd has 96 core single socket solutions and has for a while.
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For many tasks sure. HEDT type stuff, heavy rendering, etc. Not for everything, in particular gaming. That's why the bios in this, and my last motherboard, has an option to turn off the second CCD either automatically when gaming or full time. (I dont bother though I have tested it out) Of course, perhaps even, a unique-ish issue to x3d cpu's?
 
Elf_Boy said:
For many tasks sure. HEDT type stuff, heavy rendering, etc. Not for everything, in particular gaming. That's why the bios in this, and my last motherboard, has an option to turn off the second CCD either automatically when gaming or full time. (I dont bother though I have tested it out) Of course, perhaps even, a unique-ish issue to x3d cpu's?
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Right if gaming is your measuring stick a single.ccd 12 core x3d will be tje winner of course.
 
Grimlakin said:
That problem is largely sorted at the professional level and has been for some time. Amd has 96 core single socket solutions and has for a while.
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96 core? they got bigger than that lol
 
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