Pictured is the AMD Ryzen 9000 “Granite Ridge” Zen 5 Processor.

There has been a purported image of a desktop AMD Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” processor leaked online. With “Zen 5” as its microarchitecture, “Granite Ridge” is the codename for the desktop version of the processor, which replaces the existing Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” with “Zen 4.” According to what we’ve been told, “Granite Ridge” still only has 16 CPU cores. Although the business is developing a new motherboard chipset to go along with the new chips, these chips will be built in the current AMD Socket AM5 package and will operate with motherboards that currently have AMD 600-series chipsets.

Here is a photo of a purported AMD engineering sample with an unreleased OPN 100-000001290-11. The distributed computing platform interpreted this OPN as having 16 threads when it appeared in an Einstein@Home online database, suggesting that this may be an 8-core/16-thread SKU. In addition to offering a generational IPC boost over “Zen 4,” the “Zen 5” microarchitecture is anticipated to significantly improve AVX-512 workload performance thanks to an upgraded FPU. At Computex in 2024, AMD is anticipated to introduce their Ryzen 9000 series “Zen 5” processors.