According to recent leaks, the next generation of AMD Ryzen desktop processors, codenamed ‘Vermeer’ will be using 5000 series naming instead of 4000 series. According to a tweet by Patrick Schur, AMD will be utilizing the 5000 series naming scheme for its upcoming Zen-3 based Vermeer series of desktop processors.
Patrick Schur is a software engineer who actively shares undisclosed details on future AMD Ryzen processors. His latest tweet suggests that the upcoming Zen3 based series will in fact adopt the 5000 series naming. Patrick also posted his discovery of Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 5800X processors and according to it, they will be carrying 12 and 8-cores respectively.
The naming scheme change is not surprising as AMD already has Ryzen 4000 series naming for its mobile processors (Renoir) and OEM desktop (also Renoir). Using the same 4000 series naming scheme for its upcoming Vermeer series processors would have been bad marketing from AMD as it would’ve caused so much confusion for the consumers.
Look, what I've found! 🙂
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (12 Core)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (8 Core)— Patrick Schur (@patrickschur_) September 16, 2020
The leaks also suggest that AMD’s Vermeer flagship Ryzen 9 5900X will allegedly max out at 12 cores. Igor’sLAB reported earlier that the 5950x will be having 16 cores but now another report from them suggests that it will be 12 cores on the Ryzen 9 5900x. Igor’s Lab posted:
“Name: Vermeer (VMR)
Family: 19h
Models: 20h-2Fh
CPUID: 0xa20f00
OPN 1: 100-000000063-07_46/40_N
OPN 2: 100-000000063-08_46/40_Y
OPN 3: 100-000000063-23_44/38_N
Revision: A0
Cores: 8
Threads: 16
OPN 1: 100-000000059-14_46/37_Y
OPN 2: 100-000000059-15_46/37_N
Revision: A0
Cores: 16
Threads: 32
According to the sources, exactly 4.6 GHz boost clock and 4.0 GHz base clock are hidden behind the number sequence 46/40 on the eight-core, while the 16-core is also listed with 4.6 Ghz boost and only 3.7 base clock. These values are of course anything but final and one could expect the predicted clock increases for the A1 revision at the latest. How high these will be, is not yet known.
The Ryzen 5000 series ‘Vermeer’ processors, which will be based on the Zen 3 architecture been confirmed by AMD to launch on October 8. Based on TSMC’s 7nm+ EUV process, the Zen 3 architecture is said to be a much-improved one than Zen 2.
AMD has so far confirmed themselves that Zen 3 brings a brand-new CPU architecture, which helps deliver significant IPC gains, faster clocks, and even higher core counts than before. Some rumors have even pointed to a 17% increase in IPC and a 50% increase in Zen 3’s floating-point operations along with a major cache redesign. The release date is not far for these CPUs so we won’t have to wait long to see what AMD has in store.
