Wednesday, April 12th 2023
AMD Zen 5 "Nirvana" and Zen 6 "Morpheus" Core Codenames Leaked, Confirm Foundry Nodes
An AMD engineer inadvertently leaked the core codenames of the company's upcoming "Zen 5" and "Zen 6" microarchitectures. It's important to understand here what has been leaked. "Zen 5" and "Zen 6" are microarchitecture names, just like the current "Zen 4" and past "Zen 3" or older. AMD uses codenames for the CCD (CPU complex dies) based on these microarchitectures, which it shares between Ryzen client and EPYC enterprise processors. For example, the CCD codename for "Zen 3" is "Brekenridge," and for "Zen 4" it is "Durango." AMD also uses codenames for the CPU cores themselves. "Zen 3" CPU cores are codenamed "Cerebrus," and "Zen 4" CPU cores "Persphone." And now, the leak:
The CCD based on the upcoming "Zen 5" microarchitecture is codenamed "Eldora," and the "Zen 5" CPU core itself is codenamed "Nirvana." There's no codename for the CCD based on "Zen 6," but its CPU cores are codenamed "Morpheus." The "Zen 5" microarchitecture will be based on the 3 nm EUV foundry node; while "Zen 6" will be 2 nm EUV. The engineer in the screenshot is contributing to the power-management technology behind "Zen 5" and "Zen 6," and states that their work on "Zen 5" spanned January-December of 2022, which means the development phase of the next "Zen" architecture is probably complete, and the architecture is undergoing testing and refinement. It's also claimed that work on at least the power-management aspect of "Zen 6" has started from January 2023.
Source:
Wccftech
The CCD based on the upcoming "Zen 5" microarchitecture is codenamed "Eldora," and the "Zen 5" CPU core itself is codenamed "Nirvana." There's no codename for the CCD based on "Zen 6," but its CPU cores are codenamed "Morpheus." The "Zen 5" microarchitecture will be based on the 3 nm EUV foundry node; while "Zen 6" will be 2 nm EUV. The engineer in the screenshot is contributing to the power-management technology behind "Zen 5" and "Zen 6," and states that their work on "Zen 5" spanned January-December of 2022, which means the development phase of the next "Zen" architecture is probably complete, and the architecture is undergoing testing and refinement. It's also claimed that work on at least the power-management aspect of "Zen 6" has started from January 2023.
19 Comments on AMD Zen 5 "Nirvana" and Zen 6 "Morpheus" Core Codenames Leaked, Confirm Foundry Nodes
The N2 is expected to be ready for volume production in late 2025; AMD is almost certainly going to be the first customer, but competition from Apple is likely. According to previous rumors, the initial N2 will introduce GAA but not BPD, which will affect subsequent developments.
if there is low demand and no competition they will postpone.
For GPU, if they weren't so damn expensive I'd be changing them more often but at least they are the one making a real gaming difference
Credibility: ULTRA FAKE
The CPU give you huge amount of multi-thread that's doesn't needed for gaming. But if you have one RTX 4090 you will bottleneck it even with top max clocked CPU.
So for the gaming you still need "faster" CPU. But faster not with just more cores, but with more IPC.