AMD's next-gen Ryzen 10000 desktop CPUs rumored to come in seven different configs — Starting from 6 cores, flagship "Olympic Ridge" silicon may feature up to 24 cores

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Following Ryzen 9000, AMD is set to release its next-gen Ryzen 10000 series processors this year — assuming the company sticks to its existing nomenclature. These upcoming desktop CPUs from AMD are codenamed "Olympic Ridge" and will be based on the company's new Zen 6 microarchitecture. Today, a new leak from reliable tipster HXL says we can expect seven different configs as part of this lineup, across dual- and single-CCD SKUs.

According to the tweet above, Ryzen 10000 will come in 6-core, 8-core, 10-core, and 12-core layouts as part of the single CCD designs. For the variants with two CCDs, you have 16-core (8+8), 20-core (10+10) and 24-core (12+12) made possible by simply doubling the chiplets. Either way, the lineup looks to be flexible enough to span from entry-level to power users and professionals.

This will mark the first time in Ryzen history that AMD ventures outside of its 8-core CCDs, by introducing new chiplets maxing out at 12 cores instead. Each of those CCDs is said to carry 48 MB of L3 cache, which shall make the flagship (non-X3D) SKU a 96 MB option. Throughout Zen 1 to Zen 5, the highest-end config for Ryzen chips has been 16 cores, but it should finally be upgraded to 24 cores with Ryzen 10000.

Now, comparing that to what Intel has in store with Nova Lake, that's an entirely different story. Current rumors suggest Nova Lake's flagship offering will be a monstrous 52-core SKU, with possibly 288 MB of bLLC (also across two tiles). Unlike the Red Team, Intel doesn't seem to be interested in segregating its extra-cache CPUs as a separate lineup entirely.

Apart from the core layouts of these chips, the underlying architecture is also of interest, since Zen 6 is said to usher in IPC improvements and higher clock speeds, while still working on the existing AM5 platform — the same cannot be said for Intel. It's a little too early to judge any of this, since Intel's Arrow Lake refresh isn't even out yet , and AMD hasn't made Ryzen 10000 official, beyond the Olympic Ridge codename. But hopefully, by the time we know all the details about AMD's next-gen CPUs, the price of RAM will also be a bit more affordable.

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Hassam Nasir
Hassam Nasir
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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.

43 Comments Comment from the forums
  • tennis2
    Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms.
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  • Stomx
    Big tech will spend soon trillions on AI creating hardware crisis. You pay for your hardware, fine, pay also for the price hikes for regular consumers and small businesses affected by your madness actions. Let's you take the responsibility. Where are consumers protection advocates? Consumers should just send the difference in price invoice to big tech and the manufacturers exploding from the fat to compensate for RAM, SSD and HD price hikes since some date say February-May 2025. How about this, Elon Mask?
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  • Stomx
    tennis2 said:
    Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms.
    Yea, last year I was building/rebuilding some HPC systems for the simulations, got the top AMD chips which at that time were the major part of the investment and a half of that now collecting the dust because it is the RDIMMs costing 7x more which are today by far the major investment

    Soon we will see the ads like this: "Buy the full set of 24 64GB RDRAM modules and get your choice AMD or Intel two server chips and the dual motherboard for free"
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  • usertests
    tennis2 said:
    Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms.
    RAM prices appear to have peaked, and you can get a 16 GB DDR5 kit for around $220 new, or under $200 used. 32 GB DDR5 kits start at $330.

    While it's not good, and it makes DDR5-only platforms less attractive, it's also not the end of personal computing. You might be looking at 25-40% higher build cost from a year ago, on the higher end if you must have a new 16 GB GPU (9060 XT 16 GB is creeping towards $450, 5060 Ti 16GB is well over $500).

    If all you need is a computer capable of doing basic work, any 4-6 core DDR4 CPU from the last 10 years is fine, and you can find relevant systems in the $100-250 range.

    Sub-$100 used GPUs with 4-8 GB VRAM can play PS4-era games, easier-to-run/esports games, and some of the newer games. For example, here's what you could do with an RX 580 8 GB (about $70-80 on ebay).

    You may have to tighten your belt, but there is no reason to rent desktops in the cloud.
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  • txfeinbergs
    You are doing it wrong. You don't build PCs anymore. You buy them. I just bought this Alienware for $3000 less than what it would take to build the same PC. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/alienware-area-51-aat2265-gaming-desktop#services-tab
    $4799 (that isn't even counting the $300 in Dell reward points you get) for an RTX 5090, 32GB 6400MT RAM, 1500 Watt Power Supply, a case built like a tank, 2 TB Gen 5 SSD, and a Ryzen 9950X3D. The cheapest you can even buy an RTX 5090 right now is around $3500.
    Reply
  • Bikki
    should be 6, 12, 18, 24 ...
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  • emike09
    I'm mostly interested in how IPC has improved per-core/per-watt. Coming from the 12-core i9-10920x to the 16-core 9950x3D was a monstrous difference. Only four more cores, but saw between 40-250% increase in various benchmarks. Many RAM benchmarks excelled though depending on the workload - quad-channel needs to be available for consumers in the HEDT.
    Come on Intel, bring back the competition!
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  • das_stig
    Ryzen 10000 is now just a stupid name, I personally think they missed the boat with the naming R3-10K-xxx, R5-10K-xxx, R7-10K-xxx, R9-10K-xxx, it makes chip identification and appropriate performance, far clearer.
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  • micheal_15
    The biggest improvement for Zen 6 is hopefully server-style slotting on a consumer product.

    Basically the OS has a core reserved entirely to itself that CANNOT be interrupted or stopped by OS Applications for any reason or used by them. So the OS will never freeze, only applications can stutter etc. This also means even an old single-core game like World of Warcraft would have better performance because the OS would be in the top-end core, whilst Wow runs by itself in Core 1 and never notices that it's not sharing core resources with the OS.

    Then just put a better task manager into Windows 11 that can insta-kill any process. No more rebooting because a piece of crap application decides to try to take over everything.
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  • bit_user
    tennis2 said:
    Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms.
    Well, I'm reading that AMD and Intel have full order books for server CPUs. So, they're not likely to miss the sales volume on the client side much, anyhow.

    That said, they could certainly do a little business selling new Ryzen CPUs into existing AM5 sockets. I know most of their client sales volume normally goes into new builds, but this would at least help get Zen 6 into the hands of some developers, so we can optimize software for it (without needing to rent time on a cloud instance).

    Edit: I just saw a rumor that AMD won't be launching the desktop Zen 6 CPUs until 2027. So, maybe all of this is effectively moot.
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