A usually-reliable leaker confirms earlier rumors that Zen 5 may be a massive uplift over Zen 4.
Normally we wouldn’t report on something like this, because ultimately «some guy on a forum said a thing» isn’t exactly newsworthy on its own. However, in this case, the poster in question is Kepler_L2, a well-known fellow who frequently shares insider information and astute analysis of upcoming hardware, particularly for AMD.
Posting on the AnandTech forums in a long-running thread about Zen 5, Kepler_L2 replied to a user asking about specific claimed performance increases on AMD’s next-gen processors in the popular SPECint benchmark. SPECint is a test that measures a CPU’s pure integer math prowess, and while it doesn’t really have much relation to consumer client desktop workloads, it’s still meaningful in the high-performance compute (HPC) arena.
