Zen 4 flagship processor could hit a blazing boost of 5.7GHz 🏎️
If the latest from the rumor mill is accurate, AMD’s next-generation flagship Zen 4 processor might be clocked substantially faster than its predecessor, possibly being capable of boosting up to 5.7GHz, and other CPUs in the Ryzen 7000 range would receive a similar amount of turbocharging.
We need to proceed with more caution than usual in this case since, as VideoCardz notes, this originates from two distinct sites, Wccftech and Expreview on Bilibili (a Chinese video-sharing website). We wouldn’t consider these to be the most trustworthy sources of leaking. However, the claimed specifications are consistent between the two sources, which gives the rumors in this case a little more credence.
According to the idea, AMD will introduce four Ryzen 7000 series processors as their first releases. These are the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X, and Ryzen 5 7600X. All core counts are the same as those of their Ryzen 5000 counterparts, but clock speeds have been significantly increased.
According to rumors, the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X (with 16 cores) will have a base clock speed of 4.5GHz and a maximum speed of 5.7GHz. This would be a significant improvement over the current 5950X, representing an increase of 1.1GHz and 800MHz, respectively.
AMD is reportedly aiming at a base clock of 4.7GHz and a boost clock of 5.6GHz for the Ryzen 9 7900X (12 cores), which is another significant improvement over the 5900X’s clock speeds of 3.7GHz and 4.8GHz. Both of these high-end CPUs are stated to have a TDP of 170W by default (an AMD figure previously mentioned), but they can consume up to 230W when pushed to the limit (that is the rated PPT or Package Power Tracking, the permissible maximum power consumption).
The Ryzen 7 7700X, an 8-core mid-range product from AMD, is expected to achieve a base clock speed of 4.5GHz and a boost speed of 5.4GHz, while the Ryzen 5 7600X, a 6-core product, will reach a boost speed of 5.3GHz.
