AMD might have only just launched its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D high-end gaming and productivity chip, but we're already starting to hear rumors of the next generation. The future Ryzen 10000 CPUs, based on a future Zen 6 architecture,

"The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if you’re building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with."

Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don't really scale past four to six cores—fanboys have accused AMD of "stagnating" much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max out at sixteen cores for four successive generations.

AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 processors will remain compatible with AM5, but they are set to introduce a new chiplet-based CPU design and significantly boost core counts across desktop and laptop products, according to sources of ChipHell, as well as Moore's Law Is Dead. Premium processors for gamers will also feature 3D V-Cache.

AMD’s latest productivity improvements with the 9950X3D required a redesign of its latest X3D chips. AMD’s second generation of its 3D V-Cache technology sits below the proces