Hardware leaker Patrick Schur tweeted that the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 5 5600X could be replaced by faster XT variants.

Schur suggested that the CPUs could be optimised with Zen 3 microarchitecture to improve clock speeds.

The core counts suggested match the existing Ryzen 5 5600X (6 cores) and the Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores), leading to the prediction that this refresh will follow a similar process to that of the previous Ryzen 3000 XT series.

However, there are no significant changes to the existing architecture planned, with the 6-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600XT listing the same 3.7 GHz to 4.6 GHz clock rates as its non-XT counterpart.

The 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950XT should be faster than the standard 3.4 to 4.9 GHz Ryzen 9 5950X, with the Zen 3/Vermeer capable of delivering 3.4 GHz up to 5.0 GHz. It should also have a  TDP of 105W and a total cache of 72 MB.

It seems a bit strange only to offer a 100 MHz boost when Intel’s 12th-gen Alder lake series are arriving soon.