Gamers got their first glimpse of AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs back at CES. However, AMD has managed to keep further information under wraps ever since – until now. While a few cores off the 16-core behemoths that could one day make its way into our gaming rigs thanks to the Zen 2 chiplet design, this four-core chip is a little glimpse of what we can expect from 3rd Gen Ryzen come a few months time.
The chip is listed as an engineering sample (via Tom’s Hardware), which could mean its specs are subject to change before it takes its final form as a shipping product. Nevertheless, this four-core, eight-thread CPU is likely a precursor to a finished chip in the Ryzen 3 family. It was spotted at 3.4GHz base and 3.8GHz boost and features 4MB of L2 cache and 16MB of L3 cache – double that of the equally threaded Ryzen 3 2300X, and is rated for the same 65W TDP.