AMD Ryzen 11,000 Zen 6 desktop CPUs tipped to launch in 2027

[Redaktion]

A report from Benchlife says AMD plans to showcase its next-generation desktop CPUs in 2027. They were originally slated to launch in 2026, two years after Zen 5 surfaced in 2024.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-11-000-Zen-6-desktop-CPUs-tipped-to-launch-in-2027.1231076.0.html

[HDPacks]

Isn't 10,000 series Zen 6 and 11,000 series Zen 7??

[Aluskinner]

On the laptop side, the Zen 6-based Medusa Point

If Medusa Point is based on RDNA4 and comes without transformer model based upscaling, which NVIDIA introduced some time ago already and NVIDIA's N1(X) APU is a thing this year already, I'm not sure I'd be interested in Medusa Point much. Not even talking about CUDA. Also, AMD needs to catch-up to NVIDIA' ray-tracing and path-tracing power efficiency:
pcgameshardware.de/Radeon-RX-9070-XT-Grafikkarte-281023/Tests/vs-RTX-5070-Ti-5080-Release-Benchmark-Overclocking-1467630/3:
Right now, depending on the game, NVIDIA is 1.3 to 2.88 times more energy efficient in path-tracing, the more path-tracing-heavy a game is, the more behind is AMD.
5070 Ti is 300 Watt TDP
RX 9070 XT is 304 Watt TDP
As such, one can compare the FPS/Watt on that table easily. RDNA4 improved nicely over RDNA3 in path-tracing power efficiency, but is still behind NVIDIA by quite a lot (several GPU generations or one could also say several full node jumps (a node jump is a 25% to 33% power efficiency improvement)). So, if you care about path-tracing (not to be confused with ray-tracing) (in ray-tracing AMD is still behind, tho, by like 1 GPU generation or 1.26 times on average, according to the table), the choice to get a NVIDIA GPU is clear.

[Reserved]

Isn't 10,000 series Zen 6 and 11,000 series Zen 7??

Maybe they're reserving 10k for something else. Sorta like how they went 7k -> 9k for desktop CPUs then released the 8k desktop APU series. Or how they went 3k -> 5k desktop CPUs and the 4k was released as a mobile laptop APU series.

Nobody can really explain the logic behind AMDs naming or marketing decisions. It's truly something special.

I think if they're releasing zen 6 desktop this late (2027), it's almost guaranteed that consoles will get delayed too. Consoles almost never get the latest cpu architecture when they just launch but wait a year or more so they can get cheaper pricing. So I'm expecting PS6 2028 now.