AMD Zen 6 Reportedly Won't Drop Support For Existing AM5 Motherboards With 32 MB BIOS
… ASUS confirmed that this motherboard will support AMD's next-gen CPUs, aka processors based on the upcoming AMD Zen 6 architecture. …
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… ASUS confirmed that this motherboard will support AMD's next-gen CPUs, aka processors based on the upcoming AMD Zen 6 architecture. …
… From AMD's side, there will be three generations of SKUs that will be fully supported, and one of them was released recently. It's the Ryzen 5 7500X3D Zen 4-based budget X3D chip, which offers 6-core/12-thread configuration and 96 MB L3 cache, and is the cheapest X3D chip in the Zen 4 family. …
… But it's interesting to see that AMD had even slower options than Ryzen 5 5500 or Ryzen 3 5300G. Ryzen 3 5100 in today's market won't make any sense since the Ryzen 5500 is already available for a sub-$80 price tag and offers 6 cores and 12 threads, and also double the L3 cache size. …
… The marketing material shows Ryzen 5 5500X3D's specifications, which were already revealed by AMD last year. AMD didn't publicly announce its launch, but launched it silently instead. The CPU is now enjoying a wider availability than previously, and hopefully, it will launch in more regions. …
… However, Ryzen 9000 could bring even more, considering we already have three, and AMD is expected to debut Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D at CES. So, it's expected that AMD might introduce Ryzen 5 7500X3D at the same time. …
… AIDA64 Extreme 7.700.7500 Rolled Out with Preliminary Support for Zen 6 Desktop, Mobile, and Server Processors Last month, the popular hardware monitoring tool, AIDA64 Extreme, added support for the next-gen AMD processors but didn't explicitly state whether it was the refreshed Zen 5 family for th… …
… The AMD 900-series platform should come out alongside Zen 6 processors, and it's expected that these will be out in the second half of 2026. AMD Zen 6 is expected to utilize TSMC's 2nm "N2P" node for the CCDs and 3nm "N3P" node for the IOD. …
… Ryzen 100 Series Specs/SKU Ryzen 7 170 Ryzen 7 160 Ryzen 5 150 Ryzen 5 130 Ryzen 3 110 Architecture Zen 3+ Zen 3+ Zen 3+ Zen 3+ Zen 3+ Cores/Threads 8/16 8/16 6/12 6/12 4/8 Clocks Base/Boost 3.2/4.75 GHz 2.7/4.75 GHz 3.3/4.55 GHz 2.9/4.55 GHz 3/4.3 GHz L2+L3 Cache 4+16 MB 4+16 MB 3+16 MB 3+16 MB 2+… …
… Products mentioned Ryzen 7 5800X USD 259.59 Buy from Amazon Ryzen 7 5800XT USD 212.45 Buy from Amazon Read all comments on AMD Ryzen 7 5800X/XT Outsells Nearly Every CPU, Becoming Even More Popular Than Ryzen 7 7800X3D
… We don't know if AMD will call the Zen 5-based APUs Ryzen 9000G or Ryzen 10000G, but regardless of the naming convention, these will be the most powerful APUs to ever exist on the desktop. …