We are less than a month away from the official announcement of AMD Ryzen 3000 processors which will be using the new 7nm Zen 2 cores and leaks have already spilled the beans of the 16 core parts that we will be getting on X570 platform.

AMD Ryzen 3000 Series 16 Core (7nm Zen 2) Processor Early Sample Clocks Up To 4.2 GHz Boost

The leak comes from TUM_APISAK who reports that the first Ryzen 3000 series processor with 16 core was spotted online in a benchmark database. The specific benchmark hasn't been linked to yet but it is mentioned that a picture of the related leak will be provided soon.

Zen2 ES 16 Core

Base clock 3.3 Ghzฺ

Boost clock 4.2 Ghz

MB X570

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— APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) May 9, 2019

Getting straight into the details for the leaked part, we are looking at a 7nm Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 series processor which features 16 cores and 32 threads. It was more or less confirmed at CES 2019 when AMD first presented their 3rd Gen Ryzen processors that the Chiplet design will allow for at least two Zen 2 chips on the silicon interposer. So while AMD had shown off an 8 core and 16 thread processor, there was room for even higher core count SKUs.

Now with this leak, we can say that the 16 core parts are coming down to the mainstream AM4 socket. The clock speeds for this part are also mentioned and those are adjusted at 3.3 GHz for Base and 4.2 GHz for Boost. Now bear in mind that the chip that has been leaked is said to be a very early engineering sample and as we have seen with past ES chips, the frequency in the final retail variants is much higher.

Compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, a 180W chip, even these ES clocks look great as we are talking about a chip close to the 100W TDP figure that might end up clocking higher than AMD's current fastest 16 core chip (Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 3.5 GHz Base / 4.4 GHz Boost).

The processor was tested on an X570 chipset based motherboard, no specific manufacturer has been mentioned but AMD partners are getting ready to show off a range of new X570 chipset based motherboards at Computex 2019 in a few weeks.

The thing to be excited about with Ryzen 3000 series is that it brings down 16 cores which were once HEDT exclusive (TR4 Threadripper) down to mainstream AM4 platforms. This would allow AMD mainstream users to get way higher core counts without upgrading to a high-end desktop platform which also cost more when looking into memory and cooling upgrades.

This also isn't the first time that we have seen a Ryzen 3000 series sample leak out. AMD already demonstrated an 8 core, 16 thread sample against Intel's Core i9-9900K at CES 2019 and a quad-core sample was spotted running on an MSI MEG X570 Creation motherboard the last month too.

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