We have right now some truly incredible news if it begins to turn into reality, with our very good friend Igor over at Igor’s Lab exclusively reporting details on Vermeer — or what you will eventually know as the AMD Ryzen 9 4950X processor.
Vermeer is the codename for AMD’s upcoming Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs, which should see emerge the flagship Ryzen 9 4950X that Igor has some details on. Igor reports from his sources that AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9 4950X will be a 16-core, 32-thread CPU which could roll out with a 3.5GHz base clock and huge 4.8GHz boost clock.
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