AMD's next Zen 6 processors teased with 'well over' 6.0GHz CPU clocks

AMD's next-gen consumer Zen 6 processors will reportedly have CPU clocks "well above" 6.0GHz with a leaker saying he's been told that the speeds are "so insane, no one would believe" him.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead and his sources at AMD, the next-gen Zen 6 processors are being cooked up by additional AMD engineers from different teams, with the design team that was in charge of Zen 4 working on Zen 6.

MLID said that AMD initially pushed Zen 4 with 5.0GHz+ CPU clocks, but it launched onto the market with clock speeds upwards of 5.7GHz, and that we should expect Zen 6 with its rumored "well above" clock speeds of 6.0GHz, with something similar... a world of at least one core at 7.0GHz would be a wild one, and that's something I'm sure anyone can get behind.

The leaker pondered how much higher the CPU clocks would be plausible, adding that it would be well above 6.0GHz and not just 6.1GHz or 6.2GHz, so we should expect something like 6.4GHz to 6.5GHz. MLID added that AMD is jumping process nodes at TSMC by not just one process node, not two, but almost three process nodes from N4P to N3P, through to N2X.

From Zen 3 to Zen 4 was just a single node jump and yet we saw 5.0GHz teased that ended up being 5.7GHz, so Zen 6 should see CPU clock jumps that are much higher thanks to the huge node jumps they're using at TSMC. If we compare this to Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs that will be jumping just 1-1.5 nodes from N3 to N3E to N2P, while Intel will be doubling core counts from its current-gen Arrow Lake chips to the next-gen Nova Lake processors.