New AMD Ryzen rumors could be good news… for Intel
‘Zen 3’ refresh sighted up to 5.0 GHz clocks
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We’re starting to see speculation surrounding a refresh for theRyzen 5000 desktop seriesof processors, suggesting that both theAMDRyzen 9 5950XandRyzen 5 5600Xcould be replaced by faster XT variants.Established hardware leakerPatrick Schurprovided information on Twitter for the two chips' specifications, speculating that the existing CPUs could be optimized with Zen 3 microarchitecture to improve clock speeds. This isn’t confirmed by any official source so don’t take any of this as gospel until we get an announcement from AMD, but it certainly correlates with previous updates to product lines from Team Red.
B2 Stepping for Vermeer?! 😮100-000000059-60_50/34_Y3.4 GHz (up to 5 GHz)Stepping: B2Cores: 16100-000000065-06_46/37_Y3.7 GHz (up to 4.6 GHz)Stepping: B2Cores: 6May 17, 2021
What’s under the hood?
The core counts seen above matches the existing Ryzen 5 5600X (6 cores) and the Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores), leading to the prediction that this refresh will follow a similar process to that of the previousRyzen 3000 XTseries, and we would be surprised if AMD doesn’t stick with the “XT” naming convention.Before anyone gets too excited there aren’t any major changes to the existing architecture planned, with the 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600XT listing the same 3.7 GHz to 4.6 GHz clock rates as its non-XT counterpart.WCCFTechsuggests that despite having the same clock speeds, we could see some optimizations made to overclocking that would justify the refresh.On the other hand, the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950XT is anticipated to be speedier than the vanilla 3.4 to 4.9 GHz Ryzen 9 5950X, with the Zen 3/Vermeer capable of delivering 3.4 GHz up to 5.0 GHz. We’re also expecting it to carry a TDP of 105W and a total cache of 72 MB.The additional boost of just 100 MHz feels a tad risky withIntel’s beefy 12th-gen Alder lake seriesrumored to be just around the corner, especially as AMD has finallycaught uptoIntelin desktop processor market share. We won’t know which side will come out on top until each product line is released to the public, but withComputex 2021just weeks away, it might not be long until we get some official release information.
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Jess is a former TechRadar Computing writer, where she covered all aspects of Mac and PC hardware, including PC gaming and peripherals. She has been interviewed as an industry expert for the BBC, and while her educational background was in prosthetics and model-making, her true love is in tech and she has built numerous desktop computers over the last 10 years for gaming and content creation. Jess is now a journalist at The Verge.
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