AMD is reportedly gearing up to expand its Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" lineup with two all-new Zen 5 CPUs that push the limits of power draw and cache capacity. Leaker chi11eddog, who has cultivated ties with motherboard vendors, claims that AMD will introduce an 8-core/16-thread model rated at 120 W...
Isn’t the 8C/16T having a TDP of 120W the same as the existing 9800X3D? https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/ryzen-7-9800x3d.c3891
So maybe that one’s just a “9700X3D” (or whatever name they go with) with marginally lower clocks than the 9800X3D?
I dont know what they are aiming for on the lower core count one, maybe it super weird binning of really good cores just only 4 made it on each die and this is them being like ok we wanna save money on wasted silicon lets make a dual chiplet and make it an x3d now that we have the cache thing work over duals. I cant see the reason for what the leak suggests on that small one.
That’s an interesting take, but I reckon it’d be a tough sell given the latency penalty it’d bring with it to do that, especially if the core scheduling is ever “wrong” and ends up unnecessarily bouncing between the dies. Guess we’ll have to wait and see!
Yeah it was the only reason I could think of on the fly that they are even doing this. Maybe with the I/O improvements that are in the threadripper maybe there is some locking down of how caching works with this so they tend to understand where the information is, and the cores it will put to use it. But I would think that would be more of a scheduler task, but I dont understand that level very well, or movements in that area.