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...
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.