Rumor: Zen 4-based Ryzen CPUs will get up to 16 cores and higher tdp up to 170W

AMD Ryzen CPUs from the as yet unannounced 7000 series will reportedly contain up to sixteen Zen 4 cores. This means that this Raphael series does not offer more cores than the current top model, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with sixteen cores. The tdp would go up considerably.

ExecutableFix reports on Twitter that Raphael will go up to sixteen cores. This account is more likely to publish unannounced data about CPUs. For example, last year the account prematurely posted the specifications of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 laptop processors that turned out to be correct. According to Videocardz matches the new information previous information from Gamers Nexusrevolving around a March 2020 slide leaked last month about Raphael, which mentions two Zen 4 CCDs named Durango.

If the new information is correct, the top of the range Ryzen 7000 series for desktops will likely go up to sixteen cores. That probably also means that the number of ccds will remain at a maximum of two, since each ccx on current Ryzen 5000 processors can contain up to eight Zen 3 cores.

Raphael is based on TSMC’s 5nm process, while current Ryzen 5000 CPUs are still baked on the Taiwanese chip manufacturer’s 7nm process. Despite this, the TDP values ​​of AMD’s new desktop processors are going up significantly. Patrick Schur, who is more likely to share information about processors early, stilt that the exact tdps for the new processors are 65, 95, 105, 120 and 170W.

Such a TDP of 170W is striking in that the current AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with sixteen cores has a TDP of 105W. If the top model of the Ryzen 7000 series indeed also has sixteen cores and is also baked on a more efficient process, 170W would be a significant increase. That may indicate higher clock speeds, but there are also rumors about the addition of an integrated GPU as an explanation for the higher tdp.