As the developer of the Ryzen automatic overclocking tool Clock Tuner for Ryzen, Yuri “1USMUS”, a recent report revealed strong news, claiming that the next-generation top thread tearer 5000 series based on the Zen 3 architecture will provide a 16-core version again.
The first-generation thread tearer 1000 series of the Zen architecture has only 8-16 cores. The second-generation 2000 series of Zen+ comes to 12-32 cores. The third-generation 3000 series of the Zen 2 architecture continues to rise to 24-64 cores. 16 cores, after all, the mainstream Ryzen 3000 series has reached 16 cores.
Historical experience shows that if the number of cores of low-end models of fever platforms is the same or close to that of high-end models of mainstream platforms, they will generally fail, mainly because of poor cost performance.
If the thread tearer 5000 series re-add 16 cores, the price will be very attractive, plus the support for four-channel memory and more PCIe buses, there will still be a certain market.
The 16-core thread tearers of the first and second generations were numbered 1950X and 2950X respectively. In the Zen 2 and Zen 3 families, 3950X and 5950X were given to the mainstream 16 cores, and the thread tearers had 16 cores. The probability should be called 5960X, and then 5970X 24 cores, 5980X 32 cores, 5990X 64 cores.
No matter what the name is, there will be obvious conflicts and differences from the previous generations, and it will have to be carefully distinguished by then.
AMD has not disclosed any official information about the Zen3 thread tearer. I don’t know if Su Ma will give some clues during the CES 2021 conference in a few days.
