Want to know what’s coming next for your AMD-based desktop PC? We can glean an inkling of what’s coming next from AMD through its latest Zen 6 EPYC enterprise-grade processors. These are server-level chips that are built for a specific use case, so you can’t apples-to-apples compare them with any kind of desktop PC-level chip. They are, however, using the same upcoming microarchitecture.

For one, these chips are built on TSMC’s N2P processing node, meaning they are 2nm chips that promise to be more efficient than the 4nm Zen 5 platform. What’s more, each of the Zen 6 chiplets—the individual integrated circuits that make up a processor—contain up to 12 performance cores. A Zen 5 chip could only hold up to eight. Though each chiplet can still hold 4MB of L3 cache per core, more cores means it can peak at 48MB L3 cache per complex compared to 32MB on the older chips. These chips also peak at a higher 5.3GHz frequency compared to the 5GHz on the previous gen.

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For the uninitiated, it’s a lot of complicated technobabble, but you can read more on this write-up at TechPowerUp . Suffice it to say, AMD’s next-gen Zen 6 chips will be more efficient and more powerful than before, but the more important thing is how these chips may reduce latency by upping core counts per CCD (core complex die). It all points to AMD potentially increasing the core counts across its chip lineup, which may be especially important for gamers.

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