This Zen 5 part, launched in August 2024, has 12 cores, a base speed of 4.4GHz, 12MB L3 cache as well as a 120W TDP. It reached 54,836 on CPUBenchmark, my default benchmark for processors.

At Hot Chips 2024, AMD engineers reportedly described the Loop Buffer in Zen 4 CPUs as "primarily a power optimization" feature rather than a performance-enhancing tool.

Of course, an RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 gaming laptop paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX or Ryzen 9 8945HX is sure to be a battery-guzzling, heat-producing beast, so I wouldn't expect the sleekest and ...

At the top of the stack, the Ryzen 9 8945HX features 16 Zen 4 cores with 32 threads. However, the new lineup lacks a Ryzen 5 tier, ending with the Ryzen 7 8745HX, which has eight cores and 16 threads.

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AMD and Google's Security Team have disclosed a major microcode vulnerability affecting all AMD EPYC processors built on the Zen 1 through Zen 4 architectures. That means EPYC 7001 (Naples), 7002 ...

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console will use AMD's next-generation UDNA GPU architecture, mixed with a Zen 4 or (but probably more so) Zen 5 processor when it drops in 2027.

TL;DR: AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors are expected to exceed 6.0GHz clock speeds, potentially reaching 6.4-6.5GHz, thanks to significant TSMC process node advancements from N4P to N2X.

According to tech leaker Kepler_L2 on X, AMD won't be launching its next-gen Zen 6 Ryzen gaming processors until late 2026 or early 2027.

The future Ryzen 10000 CPUs, based on a future Zen 6 architecture, will reportedly have as many as 24 cores on the top model, with AMD now packing up to 12 cores into individual chiplets.