Friday, February 20th 2026
AMD Next-Gen Ryzen "Olympic Ridge" Zen 6 Delayed to 2027
AMD's next-generation Ryzen "Olympic Ridge" desktop processors are rumored to have been delayed to 2027. Company roadmap slides point to a debut of the "Zen 6" microarchitecture in 2026. This could be a signal that AMD is prioritizing "Zen 6" chiplets for EPYC server processors as the enterprise market has a better-secured supply of memory, and enterprise customers are more likely to stick to their procurement roadmaps for CPUs, in stark contrast to the client segment, which has been grappling with acute shortages of DDR5 memory.
With PC memory selling at prices 5-8 times above normal, 2026 may not present an ideal environment for AMD to debut a new Ryzen desktop processor generation, especially given that AMD processors tend to be heavily favored by the DIY retail channel compared to Intel, which retains a hold over the pre-built OEM market. Besides increased IPC and an updated ISA, "Zen 6" is expected to see AMD increase CPU core counts, as well as update the client I/O die. This new cIOD, likely built on 4 nm, is expected to come with updated DDR5 memory controllers that support higher speeds and have a greater degree of parallelism for dual-channel DDR5, likely with each controller addressing two 40-bit sub-channels from different channels, an approach similar to Intel's with "Arrow Lake." If your best feature is, say, DDR5-9000 support with CUDIMM optimization, you rather hold off when a 32 GB >9000 MT/s CUDIMM kit costs upward of $800.
Sources:
Benchlife.info, VideoCardz
With PC memory selling at prices 5-8 times above normal, 2026 may not present an ideal environment for AMD to debut a new Ryzen desktop processor generation, especially given that AMD processors tend to be heavily favored by the DIY retail channel compared to Intel, which retains a hold over the pre-built OEM market. Besides increased IPC and an updated ISA, "Zen 6" is expected to see AMD increase CPU core counts, as well as update the client I/O die. This new cIOD, likely built on 4 nm, is expected to come with updated DDR5 memory controllers that support higher speeds and have a greater degree of parallelism for dual-channel DDR5, likely with each controller addressing two 40-bit sub-channels from different channels, an approach similar to Intel's with "Arrow Lake." If your best feature is, say, DDR5-9000 support with CUDIMM optimization, you rather hold off when a 32 GB >9000 MT/s CUDIMM kit costs upward of $800.
87 Comments on AMD Next-Gen Ryzen "Olympic Ridge" Zen 6 Delayed to 2027
The 7800x3d is not as good as the 14900k. Especially the 0.1% low, which is very terrible.
This is not the first and certainly not the last time when someone is desperately trying to prove that a circle is a square.
Record a video with all games and testing conditions and publish it for the public to see it. Above all, contact all professional reviewers and tell them that their extensive tests need to be updated. They will tell you that this train has long gone...
2. As I said, publish a comprehensive video for the public to see and engage with.
You have all means to make your claims available to wider public. One of those means in NOT posting a random table in a random thread.
These are valid findings as showing an issue a user might encounter but not as a general what everyone should expect result.
7800x3d vs 14900K 30종 게이밍 테스트
being a 1day account, trust me bro isn't going to work.
What we know about the x3d chips is they are exceptionally good at 1% lows regardless of the ram you choose, unless you run out of cache.
As such, these chips are more susceptible to settings related issues. fTPM and an old bios can cause bad latency spikes.
gamersnexus.net/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-9800x3d-285k-9950x-more
It would be very easy to cherry pick the cases to make them look good or bad.
9800x3d is like this, but 7800x3d is not. 7800x3d is similar to 9700x.
Quasarzone is a Korean website, so it is normal you do not know it, but I check reviews not only in English, that is just how it is.
IF Epyc production were exclusively Zen6C, then fine, because N2P wafers would only produce dense Epyc chiplets, but since AMD is ALSO producing Zen6 wafers (full Epyc offering, Microsoft's hyperscaler on Zen6), it's obvious that Zen6 wafer production exists; eventually, the question is whether the volume can guarantee a desktop launch.
However, Epyc selection is very strict (Vcore/frequency) and requires that every chiplet core fall within THAT specification, and the move from X8 to X12 CCX should be much more selective.
This is where I would be of the opinion that desktop volume is possible well before 2027 even if AMD doesn't intentionally launch desktop volume, because there will be increased Epyc demand and at the same time added hyperscaler demand, to which I believe we can also add HEDT (Threadripper Zen6 rumor ahead of time), because a Threadripper-based system for enterprise AI would have a lot of demand as an alternative to Epyc (number of PCI lanes, amount of memory, bandwidth, etc.).
The massive demand game from borrowed money has nearly ran it's cource.
AMD will be happy to sell to consumers by spring 2027