AMD's next-gen Zen 6 chips could launch with crazy high 7.0GHz CPU clock speeds

AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture will have a few surprises up its CPU sleeves, with rumors that we could see top-binned chips with up to an incredible 7.0GHz boost clock.

We've been reporting on rumors from leaker Moore's Law is Dead that AMD's next-gen Zen 6-based consumer Ryzen CPUs will have clock speeds of "well over" 6.0GHz, but we could see ceilings of a much higher 7.0GHz that would whoop some Intel ass.

Can you imagine a new high-end 24-core, 48-thread Zen 6-based CPU clocking in at up to 7.0GHz? I can, and we all want it, and it would really push that boot harder into Intel's neck. Intel is cooking up its next-gen Nova Lake CPUs, but we all know they won't be pushing anywhere near 7.0GHz clock speeds, something AMD could deliver on with Zen 6.

The leaker pondered in his previous video how much higher the CPU clocks could plausibly be, 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.