AMD Working on 16-core Ryzen 3000 CPU, Confirmed by Gamers Nexus?

AMD unveiled its Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs at its Computex 2019 keynote. These third generation processors, manufactured using the 7nm process node, are based on AMD’s Zen 2 core architecture. AMD also expanded its Ryzen lineup till Ryzen 9 for its high-performance CPUs.

The processors that have been officially unveiled at Computex this year have a maximum core count of 12, in the $499 Ryzen 9 3900X. This is the flagship CPU of the Ryzen 3000 series and uses two Zen 2 dies. The other processors launched feature 8 cores and 16 threads.

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Now, in an interview at Computex, Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus has confirmed that AMD is working on a 16-core Ryzen 3000 CPU. Burke said that a 16-core Ryzen 3000 does exist and how AMD accidentally confirmed it to him. Now, what actually led Burke to believe that a 16-core Ryzen 3000 chip is in the making, is a conversation he had with AMD. According to Burke, during the conversation, the AMD executive said that “the platform started with a quad core and that we have quadrupled it to 12 cores”. Well, obviously quadruple of a quad is 16, not 12. This led him to believe that AMD might actually be prepping for a 16-core Ryzen 3000.

You can see it yourself in the video uploaded by KitGuruTech:

We know that the reasoning and the evidence is a bit sketchy and doesn’t really confirm the speculation, but we can never rule out anything. We would suggest taking this report with a pinch of salt. But still, until we get any evidence disproving this or until AMD confirms otherwise, we would like to believe that a 16-core Ryzen 3000 processor is actually in the works, but then again, don’t quote us on that.

Further Reading:

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• NVIDIA GeForce Super: Two New Turing Cards Faster than RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 Coming?

Source : KitGuruTech