After reports surfacing that AMD wouldn't be launching 6-core variants of its upcoming Ryzen CPUs, there are new reports that AMD will indeed be launching 6-core Ryzen CPUs.
CanardPC tweeted that there is a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen CPU clocked at 3.3GHz base, lower than the 8-core/16-threaded Ryzen CPU. It makes sense, as if the silicon can't handle the additional two CPU cores, they can disable them and have a rock solid 6-core Ryzen chip instead.
VideoCardz is reporting that there are 3 different Ryzen CPUs in the high-end SKUs that are of interest:
- Read more: AMD launches Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D and Ryzen 7 Pro 9755X3D, the world's first Pro-series Ryzen chips with 3D-VCache
- Read more: AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D appears on PassMark with similar performance to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- Read more: Intel Nova Lake engineering samples have started shipping, with claims of up to 2x multi-core gains over current-gen
- 6-core/12-thread - 3.3GHz
- 8-core/16-thread - 3.4GHz
- 8-core/16-thread - 3.6GHz
Ryzen review samples should reach reviewers before the end of the month, with the launch expected in March. We should expect some big waves to be made, and I'm sure that Intel is scrambling to do something to stop the flood of people flocking to AMD... where I expect price drops to occur from Intel in the coming month or two.
