Unprecedented clock speed: Full AMD Zen 6 Medusa desktop and laptop CPU leak clarifies 6.5+ GHz boost frequency

[Redaktion]

Moore's Law Is Dead has published a highly detailed AMD Zen 6 leak. The leak summarizes everything MLID has revealed about Zen 6 in the past while also providing some interesting new nuggets of information. The most interesting aspects of the entire Zen 6 family appear to be the performane potential and SKU segmentation.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Unprecedented-clock-speed-Full-AMD-Zen-6-Medusa-desktop-and-laptop-CPU-leak-clarifies-6-5-GHz-boost-frequency.1316102.0.html

[Tanishq Hooda]

Not exciting that's expected

[Anonymousgg]

Not exciting that's expected

A minimum 15% boost to the top turbo is pretty exciting.

If they give the budget 10-core Zen 6 a 6.2 GHz turbo with 10% IPC gain, that should outperform the i9-14900KS.

[nothingburger-rumorcareer]

1440p relative performance:
techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/19.html
9800X3D: 100% (100/97.2 -> 2.9% faster than predecessor)
7800X3D: 97.2% (97.2/91.9 -> 5.8% faster than predecessor)
5800X3D: 91.7%

Applications relative performance:
techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/27.html
9800X3D: 100% (17.5% faster than predecessor)
7800X3D: 85.1% (25% faster than predecessor)
5800X3D: 68.1%

The 12-core CCD is going to be the biggest reason to upgrade, but for pure gaming, probably not.

Clock speed:
techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/26.html
9800X3D: 5.2 GHz (4 nm) (4% faster than predecessor)
7800X3D: 5.0 GHz (5 nm) (11% faster than predecessor)
5800X3D: 4.5 GHz (7 nm)

I believe the 6.5 GHz clock when I see it.

Jumping straight into the potential Zen 6 clock speeds, MLID initially leaked that the big "classic" Zen 6 cores could boast a crazy 7 GHz boost frequency. This is possible because AMD's alleged use of TSMC's cutting-edge N2X 2 nm node for the 12-core CCDs.

MLID now claims that Zen 6 will "100%" clock above 6.5 GHz.

Ok, so first it's 7 GHz (who would believe that tho), now it's 6.5 GHz (still hard to believe), in 6 months it's going to be 6 GHz and in another 6 months/on release/announcement date, it's going to be 5.5-5.8 GHz.

Nothing is being eaten as hot as it's being cooked.

[Knownbg]

Not exciting that's expected

If they give the budget 10-core Zen 6

AMD doesn't care about budget desktop just like they don't care about their apus.

If it's good they'll overcharge like $450 for it and if it's not they'll still overcharge $350+ for stagnation.

Vanilla versions will be mediocre as hell, that will most likely be beaten by 9600x3d.

The only cpus they care about are x3d's which will be like a $700+. Then they'll delay launching / bringing the same x3d tech to lower end cpus by like 5 years. Only to then finally eventually bring them under the guise of "platform support" longevity when we all know hey could of done so right from the beginning.

He's right. Nothing to be excited for. Predictable. Always massive disappointment.

Don't worry though. MLID will hype up every release just like he glazes his hp halo laptop with mediatek WiFi.

[Enma45]

Great job by AMD; the jump to AMD Zen 6 will be almost the death knell for Intel.
Now all that remains is for iGPUs in laptops to be far superior with RDNA 5, which is what everyone expects, and a new microarchitecture from AMD Zen 6. And most importantly, the prices shouldn't be as high as those launched by Intel and Pantherlake, impossible to buy here in Europe at almost €2,000 for a chip with only 4Xe3 cores—a disgrace from Intel, all under the guise of 18A. Now we'll see who has done their job: Intel with 18A or TSMC with 2N.