It’s nothing new that information about the next upcoming hardware will be leaked through component performance testing. The most common are usually graphics cards that some medium or even engineering pass the test and these results are unintentionally uploaded to the cloud. Something less recurring usually happens with processors, but thanks to MilkyWay @ Home what could be two new processors from AMD Ryzen 7000 with double the L2 cache and with the ZEN 4 architecture.
The MilkyWay @ Home project is a voluntary IT project of the BOINC platform (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing) to create a three-dimensional model of our Milky Way. Why is there data from these new processors? Unknown, but AMD may be testing something in particular which is a plus for us as we have more data available.
Ryzen 7000 ZEN 4 would double L2 cache
According to leaks posted by the BenchLeaks account on Twitter, two new AMD Raphael processors have been spotted with AM5 socket. These two processors are engineering examples:
- AMD Eng sample: 100-000000666-21_N [Family 25 Model 96 Stepping 0] – 8 cores / 16 threads
- AMD Eng sample: 100-00000665-21_N [Family 25 Model 96 Stepping 0] – 16 cores / 32 threads
It is known that the code name of AMD to designate the Ryzen 7000 es Raphael, and following the details seen through the collaborative project platform, we can see that these processors have twice the cache memory compared to the ZEN 3, reaching the 1024 KB of hidden L2, thus being faced with 1 MB of processors of this type of memory for each core. This would give us the first known Ryzen that exceeds the 512KB rate we’ve had to date.
If this information is correct, we could have a 16-core processor in one hand and an 8-core processor in the other. The first of these would be the natural successor to the Ryzen 9 5950X, and can be called Ryzen 9 7950X, while for the eight-core, it might be the Ryzen 7 7800X, clearly these nomenclatures of AMD ZEN 4 They are not final, but they could be their names if AMD follows the line assigned to their processors and architectures.
With the little information that can be managed at the present time on the AMD Ryzen 7000, little can be objectively definitive, but one can come to think that the Ryzen 7000 and its high-end L2 cache will remain in the 16 cores (8 color CCD).
While waiting to learn a lot more about the new AMD ZEN 4 and to confirm all the information given to these new processors, we must add twice as much memoria hidden L2, which, while it might not be very striking at first, in conjunction with other known data, makes the upcoming AMD AM5 platform more than interesting. Without forgetting the tandem with memory DDR5 or the PCo. 5.0.
