AMD Zen 6 CPUs have already been sampled to customers

New Zen 6 details leak as early samples reach partners

New information about AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 processors has leaked, coming through Yuri Bubliy (also known as 1usmus), the creator of the Hydra tuning software for Ryzen CPUs. This suggest that the development of Zen 6 is on schedule, which is great news for AMD.

According to a recent post from Yuri, AMD has already sent Zen 6 engineering samples to its partners. This post also claims that AMD is increasing its per-CCD core counts and will use two memory controllers instead of one. These claims are supported by older leaks, which suggest that AMD’s Zen 6 CPUs will feature twelve cores per CCD, rather than eight.

Currently, it is unknown what AMD has done with Zen 6’s memory controller. AMD may have given each DDR5 memory channel its own controller, allowing AMD to support much higher memory speeds. This change may also enable CUDIMM support with Zen 6 CPUs. This is just speculation, but why else would AMD invest in two memory controllers instead of one?

Regarding Zen 6

Engineering Samples have already been distributed. This won’t be a revolution – it will be an evolution.

There will be more cores per CCD, and instead of a single memory controller, there will be two (details are still scarce). Memory channels will remain at two. No new boost technologies are expected, and Curve Optimiser remains unchanged. HYDRA support won’t be an issue.

– 1usmus (Yuri Bubliy)

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1usmus has claimed that AMD’s Zen 6 CPU architecture is “an evolution” and not a “revolution.” This suggests that AMD will not be making fundamental changes to its CPU architecture, but rather refine many aspects of Zen. This is neither a good nor a bad thing. After all, evolution is still progress.

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