A new tweet from Patrick Schur revealed that the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 5800X processors will have 12 and 8 cores respectively. He also suggested that the next Zen3-based series will change its nomenclature to 5000.
The new number of the series is not a secret revelation, because a few weeks ago there was a rumor that if AMD does not change its nomenclature, the names of Vermeer (Desktop) will be aligned with Cezanne (Mobile). Therefore the 4000 series remains exclusive for the Renoir FP6 (mobile) and Renoir AM4 (desktop) series.
On the other hand, the fact that Patrick revealed that the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 5800X processors will receive 12 and 8 cores, respectively, attracted attention. This would maintain the same number of cores as the current Ryzen 3000 series.
Last month, a leak indicated that Vermeer could increase to 5.0 GHz. At that time there was also speculation that the series could be renamed 5000 (therefore reported as 4950X or 5950X). Well, shortly after that Patrick Schur issued an update on this rumor and mentioned that the released OPN codes were not 16-core processors but 12-core Ryzen.
This naming scheme doesn’t leave much room for a supposed 10-core processor, but if it were introduced, it could do so as 5850X.
What is known about Zen 3 so far?
Since the number of cores will not change, AMD Zen 3 is expected to bring new technologies and a performance boost from other techniques:
- Zen3 will be the first major redesign of Zen to focus on performance/watt and scalability.
- Better IPC, 8 cores per CCX, new IO chip with better memory controller, improved SMT, and more efficient boosters.
- The new boost is not aimed at getting much higher clocks but is designed to handle long workloads. It can be maintained for several minutes.
- This last point would certainly be the most interesting feature of Zen 3. A longer boost will certainly lead to an increase in performance in many areas.
AMD announced that it will introduce Zen 3-based processors on October 8. Furthermore, the manufacturer has not yet confirmed the official name of the series.