AMD's next-gen Zen 5 and Zen 6 core configurations have allegedly been revealed with the latter featuring up to 32 cores per CCD.
08.05.2024 - 18:05 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba
AMD's Zen 5 CPUs are rumored to feature an IPC increase of around 10% with the latest core architecture.
AMD's next-generation Zen 5 core architecture is about to debut soon as we near Computex 2024. We have seen a range of CPU leaks, mostly the Strix Point "Ryzen AI HX" and Granite Ridge "Ryzen 9000" families, which show us that the next-generation architecture is ready for launch in the 2nd half of the year.
Now, information coming from Lenovo China's manager at Weibo seems to give us a hint at the IPC of the next-generation core architecture. The same manager also pointed out that the Lenovo 8050 APU leak was not true which was later verified by ASUS's leak. A few weeks ago, he also mentioned the recent Zen 5 performance rumors which claimed that Zen 5 CPU was up to 40% faster per core versus Zen 4. While the rumor never talked about IPC and only talked about a specific SPEC result, it looks like we might have our first revelation of where the Zen 5 IPC might land.
As per the details, the AMD Zen 5 core architecture for next-gen Ryzen and EPYC CPUs is expected to deliver an IPC increase of around 10%. It is also mentioned that the IPC is more than 10% when selecting the Cinebench R23 1T (Single-Thread) test. AMD's Zen core architectures have always shown good performance results in Cinebench tests, whether they be multi-thread, single-thread, or IPC figures. Following is the breakdown of IPC for the respective generation of Zen architecture:
Although an IPC increase of around 10% is smaller than the Zen architectures that came before (minus Zen+ which was mostly an optimized refresh), these claims may very well be based on early samples. It is likely that with the final silicon, the IPC could end up close to 15% which will be a very respectable increase.
Not a lot about AMD's Zen 5 core architecture is known at the moment but following highlights are what we officially know:
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