AMD Ryzen latest news: Leak by Russian retailer hints at 4.7GHz 16-core Ryzen 9

And the 12 core Ryzen 7 3700X clocking at 5GHz sounds pretty tasty, too

A Russian retailer called E-Katalog appears to have spilled a fair amount of beans about AMD's forthcoming Ryzen CPUs - including the raw details of a Ryzen 9 3800X CPU that will offer 16 cores, 32 threads and a boost clock speed of 4.7GHz.

Described as Ryzen 9 Matisse by the online retailer (Matisse being the code name for the Zen 2 architecture), it will (as expected) be built to TSMC's 7nm process.

However, that's not all - the retailer appears to have published the raw details of all the forthcoming Ryzen CPUs, from the Ryzen 3 all the way up to the aforementioned Ryzen 9.

The Ryzen 7 3700X looks like a particularly interesting part: it will be the first AMD Ryzen CPU to hit the 5GHz clock speed out of the box, albeit in boost mode. This mirrors Intel's efforts to offer some highly clocked CPUs in a bid to stay ahead of newly invigorated AMD as the Zen architecture matures.

However, even the entry-level Ryzen 3 CPUs will get a core and thread-count boost. The Ryzen 3 3300 will get six cores and 12 threads, while running at a base speed of 3.2GHz.

Meanwhile, its (no doubt) slightly more expensive Ryzen 3 stablemate, the 3300X, will offer 3.5GHz out of the box for the same number of cores and threads.

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The bean spillage has since been cleaned up by E-Katalog, but not before the specialist Videocardz website got the screen grabs.

Enthusiasts won't have to wait long for confirmation, or otherwise, however. AMD CEO Lisa Su will be giving a keynote at the CES 2019 tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada next week where she is expected to provide more details on AMD's upcoming 7nm Zen 2-based CPUs.

15 March 2018: The first performance benchmarks for AMD's long-awaited second-generation Ryzen 2700X processor have leaked onto the internet.

The Zen+ microprocessors - new Ryzen CPUs optimised for a 12nm process architecture compared to the 14nm manufacturing process of the first Ryzens - is expected to be launched next month.

The new CPUs will replace the Ryzen 7 1700X and 1800X processors and is expected to be both faster and cheaper than its predecessors.

In the Fire Ultra 1.1 test, the 2700X processor garnered a 20,909 physics score, compared to the the 1700X coming in at 17,825 and the Ryzen 7 1800X at 19,051. The results indicate that the 2700X will be 18 per cent and 11 per cent more powerful.

Results from the 3DMark benchmark test also suggests that the new processor will be able to reach clock speeds of 4.2GHz - the precise test numbers varied between 4,264MHz and 4,214MHz.

Digging into the clock speeds, the enthusiast website Wccftech found that the upcoming Ryzen CPUs are 400MHz more powerful than previous models.This comes down to fact that there are new Turbo and XFR technologies packed into the CPU.

Overclock results came in at around 4.4GHz, which is not a huge difference from the 4.0-4.1GHz limits on previous Ryzen 7 CPUs.

The Ryzen 2700X processor will come with beefed-up memory support, too. It should now be capable of supporting JEDEC DDR4 specification clock speeds of 2,933MHz, compared to 2,400MHz on previous models.

While it was possible to overclock memory modules, and motherboard makers introduced overclocking options to support faster memory, the new CPUs will support these faster memory modules out-of-the-box.

Indeed, it is expected that the Zen+ Ryzen CPUs should be capable of supporting memory modules cranked all the way up to 3,600MHz, and possibly even 4000MHz.

The second-generation processors' level 2 and level 3 latencies will also feature small improvements.

As promised, the forthcoming upgraded Ryzens will also support the AM4 socket, so current users can upgrade without having to rip-out their motherboard.

Price details and regional availability have yet to be announced, but the formal launch is believed to be just weeks away.

8 March 2018: AMD is set to crank-up the performance of its forthcoming Zen+ based microprocessors with leaks suggesting that its top-of-the-range second-generation Ryzen CPU will run at 4.35GHz.

The leaks have appeared on the South Korean forum HWBattle, of what appears to be a second-generation Ryzen processor.

Simply listed as Ryzen 7 2000 Series in the SiSoft SANDRA benchmarking tool, the CPU boasts speeds running from 2.2GHz base clock speed boosting to 3.7GHz then with a turbo clock it hits 4.35GHz.

Judging by the performance and the eight cores on offer, it looks like the chip in question appears to be the successor to the Ryzen 7 1700X processor.

Previous leaks had put the Ryzen 7 2700X, as it is expected to be called, at a max clock speed of 4.2GHz. So there's a chance that we could be looking at a follow-up to the Ryzen 7 1800X, the current flagship of the mainstream Ryzen CPU family.

So, wherever this second-gen Ryzen CPU sits in AMD's line-up, it looks like AMD will be cranking up the performance competition against Intel in the desktop CPU market.

Of course, clock speeds aren't everything. Current Ryzen CPUs are good all-rounders that can easily turn their attention to heavyweight workloads, such as video rendering, that make good use of multi-core CPUs offering multiple threads.

With the second-generation Ryzen chips we expect to see tweaks to the Zen architecture to extract even more multi-thread performance to go alongside boosted clock speeds.

Built to a 12-nanometre process architecture - rather than the first generation's 14nm - the next wave of Ryzen microprocessor are set to make their debut next month.

It will also represent a renewed challenge to Intel, especially following the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security debacle that appears to have affected Intel significantly more than AMD. Solutions to Meltdown, in particular, could apply the brakes to Intel CPU performance to a lesser or greater extent, too.