AMD Zen 7: Ryzen with 32 cores and XXL cache for AM5?

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Ryzen CPUs based on Zen 6 haven't even been announced yet, and already wild rumors are circulating about their successors based on Zen 7. 32 processor cores and an XXL cache are still expected to be offered on the AM5 socket.

Not even the first Ryzen CPUs based on Zen 6 ("Morpheus") and Zen 6c ("Monarch") have been officially announced yet, so the first information about their desktop successors based on the Zen 7 architecture is already circulating in the busy rumor mill. As a result, up to 32 processor cores and massively fast cache should be offered, so Moore's Law Is Dead

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AMD Zen 7 Ryzen 32 Processor cores and double 3D V-cache

While AMD itself only revealed the novel matrix engine and an AI data format extension for Zen 7 on a current CPU roadmap as part of the AMD Financial Analyst Day 2025, the controversial YouTube channel would now like to have learned from its own sources that desktop processors based on Zen 7 are composed of up to two CCDs ("Core Complex Dies") with 16 processor cores each and an IOD ("I /O Die") and have "tons of cache".

Accordingly, up to 32 Zen-7 cores and a cache ("cache") of up to 512 MiBytes are envisaged. 320 MiByte L3 cache alone are to be realized by means of double-stacked 3D V-Cache.

11th generation Ryzen processors with Zen 7*

• 2 × CCD with up to 16 Zen 7 processor cores
• Up to 32 Zen 7 processor cores in total
• Up to 512 MiB cache in total
• 64 MiB L2 cache
• 448 MiB L3 cache
• 320 (2 × 160) MiB 3D V-cache

The YouTube channel points out that more than 2 years will pass before the release of the first products based on the Zen-7 architecture, and the information leaked so far does not necessarily have to come true in full. Nevertheless, core and cache monsters with comparatively high performance per clock cycle ("IPC") should be expected.

Zen 7 is to be released again for Socket AM5

It is also stated that Zen 7 will be the last microarchitecture for the socket AM5 ("LGA-1718"), which will be introduced in September 2022, while the first Zen generations for the socket AM6 are already being planned with Zen 8 and Zen 9.

Zen 6 will take over at the end of 2026 / beginning of 2027

With its upcoming Zen 6 and Zen 6c architectures, AMD will, as expected, use TSMC's manufacturing processes in 2 nm ("N2P"), Zen 7 is expected to go beyond this. TSMC A16 would be a candidate, while Moore's Law is Dead even brings TSMC A14 into play and can provide more information with "Silverton" a 16-core CCD on 98 mm2 and "Silver King" as an 8-core CCD on 56 mm2.

Transistors with Nanosheet GAAFET

The Zen-7 architecture, which should not be expected before 2028, is expected to use transistors with Nanosheet GAAFET ("gate-all-around Field-Effect Transistor") and will be even more designed for processing AI workflows. AMD did not provide any information about Ryzen processors based on Zen 6, Zen 6c or even Zen 7. The keynote was all about AI.

While Moore's Law Is Dead wants to find out that the 11th generation of Ryzen CPUs will be developed under the code name "Grimlock Ridge", he has already collected initial information about the Zen-7 APUs under the code names "Grimlock Point" and "Grimlock Halo".