7GHz AMD Zen 6 QS Leak | RDNA 5 Confirmed 2027

[00:00:00][music] [music] >> So, I'll be honest. If I've seemed a little less responsive over the past week, that's because I've been basically taking a staycation here in Nashville with my visiting brother, Dan. In fact, I'm surprised that nobody has seemed to have noticed that we recorded that last Broken Silicon in multiple sittings just to work around our schedule. And actually, now that I'm telling you that, I wonder if any of you can figure out where the cut was between the two recordings. But either way, it seems like us and Gerard, the editor, did a good job of making it feel like it was all recorded in one sitting. But anyways, this staycation hasn't stopped me from receiving tips from a handful of my AMD sources. They have been reaching out to me over the past week, and I've been conversing with them on and off.

[00:00:50]And I have to say that some of the stuff that I've been told this week is so exciting that I don't think that I can wait until the June 10th weekend is over before your vacations are over, I can't help but right now tell you some incredibly exciting things that I've been told about Zen 6 and RDNA 5. And first, let's actually get to the Zen 6 information. So, ever since I exclusively leaked that AMD was targeting 7 GHz boost clocks or higher, actually, for the flagship desktop Zen 6 products, there's been constant skepticism from a section of the online gaming hardware community regarding this leak for honestly understandable reasons. Look, I understand how insane that number looks at face value, 7 7 GHz. And yes, there is therefore a reason I haven't doubled down on the 7 GHz number yet. I keep saying things like AMD is targeting 7 GHz, and they are, and they plan to hit 7 GHz, and I do believe they plan to do that. But I want ample proof before I say that target is achieved or say that it definitely will, that Zen 6 definitely will hit 7 GHz, because I don't want to stake my reputation on a claim that AMD might fail to reach. But today, well, today, I don't quite have a final verification that Zen 6 will go above 7 GHz, but I feel like I have to put this out there because I keep seeing comments that argue I'm backpedaling with my recent leaks. I'm not. Let me put this leak on screen here. So, I, and this is coming from a source at AMD, told me they just came across a Powder Horn, code name for the Zen 6 desktop CCD, document that referenced eventual qualification of samples hitting 7 GHz.

[00:02:28]At a minimum, this source believes that as of the first half of 2026, this, you know, this isn't information from last year, AMD is still targeting at least 7 GHz boost clocks for at least one Zen 6 product, if not many. Guys, no, I am not backpedaling. I am not suggesting that I heard they might get there and it sounds like things are going wrong. The only thing I said in recent leaks, in fact, is that maybe Zen 6 desktop might get delayed like a quarter or two from late this year, but I was always kind of suggesting that could happen. None of that delay has to do with them failing to hit certain clock speeds, at least not recently. And as of, you know, up-to-date information, they are still prepping to have Zen 6 hit 7 GHz, working on things behind the scenes towards that goal. There is nothing out there, and actually there's information to the contrary, that there is a failure. Zen 6 still targets 7 GHz. Time will tell if they actually achieve this goal, but it's not a pipe dream. This is a real dream that they can and might achieve. In fact, to show you that it's not crazy to suggest they might achieve this insane clock speed, that really isn't insane, if you calculate the clock speed difference between when AMD went from Zen 3 to Zen 4, so the 5950X to the 7950X, they went from 4.9 GHz to a blistering at the time 5.7 GHz.

[00:03:59]Everybody, if they did that same jump, you know, what they did from Zen 3 to Zen 4 proportionally, they would hit 6.6 GHz. So, if they just achieved what they've already done in the past, it would be nothing new, the bar is really 6.6 GHz. And then remember that Zen 5 to Zen 7 is at least two no jumps. Zen 3 to Zen 4 was one no jump. And so, there you go. Zen 6 was always targeting 7 GHz.

[00:04:30]Really, it was. It is still targeting 7 GHz or higher. And 7 GHz really isn't a pipe dream when you consider what they've been able to achieve in the past. And now, I actually want to move on to some exciting information I'm hearing about RDNA 5 after an ad from a sponsor.

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[00:06:41]All right. So, now let's get to the RDNA 5 leak without wasting any time. Let me put it right on screen for you now. So, this source told me that we, this person works at a major OEM, were just told by AMD that we might be able to receive the first shipments of desktop RDNA 5 in mid-2027.

[00:06:58]I know that's not a promise for an exact date, but at a minimum, I'd now be shocked if RDNA 5 didn't launch before the end of 2027. And I genuinely find this exciting due to how Nvidia has been treating us with GPU supply lately. We need this. So, yeah. Despite the constant misinformation, misinformation that frankly we've seen before, by the way, >> right now, [music] this very second. They're in stock.

[00:07:25]They're massively discounted, and they're doing this because they will not launch a 40 series while there is a surplus of 30 series.

[00:07:32]>> It's not new to have operatives behind the scenes tell major platforms that you should totally not wait to buy things and and just spend all your money right now.

[00:07:41]And I do kind of get the sense that that's happening again. But yeah, despite the flood, everything I am hearing still points to at least some RDNA 5 product launching next year. And I have to say that anyone who is surprised by me reconfirming uh RDNA 5 launches next year really shouldn't be surprised when you consider all of the leaks that have come out from other people, but also of course from me regarding the PlayStation 6, the PlayStation 6 handheld, Xbox Helix, Medusa Halo, a whole line of Medusa Halo products. And all of these or a lot of these sharing chiplets with desktop RDNA 5. If those products are ready to launch next year, why would some desktop variants not also be ready to launch next year? It just honestly makes sense.

[00:08:27]Except for, and now I have to do this, now I need to address something that I imagine is already causing a bunch of angry gamers to type in all caps in the comments once again regarding the current Underline that word. Current price of RAM.

[00:08:43]You see, it's become painfully obvious to me that no matter how many times I try to explain why the AI bubble will pop within like 18 months and that therefore record high DDR5 prices are thus about to time, many people seem to ignore this in-depth content and only watch leaks or gamery opinion pieces I do and thus don't see the connections and just type in all caps that this can't happen because of RAM missing that you know, I'm trying to tell you that the reason I'm sure of a lot of this stuff is because I'm also sure about the AI bubble popping as well. And so I need to end this video by making clear once again that I am not ignoring the RAM issue. I am directly saying that because I think the RAM issue will get better in the next 18 months that this is why the product I'm talking about today, that product is RDNA 5, should launch within when we expect it to from previous leaks, which in this case is 2027, next year. And by the way, it's not like I'm naive here. It's not just me.

[00:09:43]Whether you talk to Steve from Hardware Unboxed or Ed Zitron or Ed Elson from the Profit Markets podcast or or Wendell from Level One Techs, they all agree with me and the other experts. If you still don't get it, then just please stop ignoring it, stop typing in all caps, and watch the content that I'm showing on screen. Especially my opinion piece about it and the Ed Zitron interview recently on Broken Silicon.

[00:10:08]No, prices probably won't go back to the record low levels we saw in 2025, but those were record low levels. There will still be a correction within the next 18 months. There will be. And no, though, it might not go back to the way things used to be, but it will go back to a better world than what we're seeing right now. It's inevitable at this point. The math for AI just isn't mathing anymore. And companies are already moving in to fill the voids left by memory makers like Samsung. And once that dam breaks, it'll be quite a break.

[00:10:43]And so, if you can't be bothered to watch that content, then please stop acting like you know what you're talking about when you swear you'll be happy to buy DDR4 in like 2028 or something.

[00:10:53]That's over a year from now, and I know things look bad now. Yeah, I see it. I see the articles, you know, farming rage that tell you about $3,000 SSDs to put in a $900 PS5 Pro. But first of all, almost none of you would even buy an SSD of that capacity for a console. Don't even know how many games you would put in that. But that's now, everybody.

[00:11:12]That's now. 2026, not 2027, and not 2028.

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