According to one of AMD's partners, the company is looking to stop driver support on Windows 10 with the upcoming Ryzen 8050 series of processors. The report also adds Zen 5 IPC performance numbers.
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Recently, firmware and chipset support for AMD's next gen Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000) series processors were added. Now, a leak has revealed the alleged specifications of the next-gen Ryzen Strix Halo APUs.
A couple of the biggest vendor partners of AMD, Asus and MSI, have inadvertently revealed some of the early details about the upcoming Zen 5 processors, thanks to firmware and chipset driver updates.
AMD's Zen 5, which will power the Ryzen 8000 series processors, is already getting support from popular monitoring software AIDA64. This is alongside the support for next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs.
AMD could be following in the footsteps of Intel with its upcoming Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs. A report has emerged today claiming so, with a couple of alleged screenshots of spec details.
AMD shared the first, extremely preliminary details on Ryzen 8000 series based on the Zen 5 CPU architecture. The chips are set to arrive next year right when people are expecting to see Windows 12.
Intel is purportedly designing a next-gen core architecture from the ground up under the guidance of Jim Keller. This project is called Royal Core and is reportedly being built as a "Zen 5 killer".