Bofferbrauer2 said:
I fully believe AMD will keep the hexacore as Ryzen 5 unless Intel drastically increases the core count on the Core Ultra 3 - or at least start making one in the first place. Intel hasn't made any Core Ultra 3 yet, just Core 3, and with an N before the number and just e-cores, those Core 3 are just rebranded Atoms now. Ultra 5/7/9 are the new Core i3/5/7, and AMD made a similar shift upwards. In fact, they pretty much killed everything below the 5; so not just i3/Ultra 3/Ryzen 3, but also the Athlons and Celerons. All while the 5 stayed pretty much at the same price, meaning both Intel and AMD have pretty much killed the budget CPU segment now. |
If the top Ryzen 9 SKU is 24 cores, there is no way the Ryzen 5 is only going be 6 cores. With 12 core CCD's, they are going to have a hard time getting a enough failed yields for 8 core chips. They are not going to be enough dies with at least 5 cores in the CCD to ship in volume anywhere close to Zen 6 launch. They aren't going to junk dies that could be used for 8 core or above chips just keep the Ryzen 5's at 6 cores.
