AMD Zen 6 Olympic Ridge Ryzen CPUs Rumored For A CCD Upgrade With 6 To 24 Cores

Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors, dear readers. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a long time spent at 8. However, a new Xwitter post from well-known hardware enthusiast and occasional leaker HXL seems to have revealed the core counts of the SKUs that will make up the next desktop Ryzen CPU family, and there are a few surprises.

The post is terse, almost esoterically so. He doesn't explain what he's talking about, but the implication is clear, particularly from "12+12" being the top configuration. Nobody else is known to be shipping chips where "12+12" makes sense, so it basically has to be AMD's Zen 6-based desktop CPUs, code-named "Olympic Ridge" in leaked roadmaps.

Moving forward with that assumption, there will apparently be ...