It is denied that AMD does not have a six-core processor in the new AMD Ryzen family, but these six-core processors would be eight-core processors with two of these blocked.

It seems that the rumor that AMD would not have six-core AMD Ryzen processors is denied. According to information that has recently appeared in various media, there will be six-core processors. It should be noted that this will have a certain trick, since they would not be only six-core processors, but they would be eight-core processors with two of these removed, thus becoming six-core processors.

The first medium to confirm these processors has been Canard PC Hardware, the same medium that filtered a complete review of the AMD Ryzen processor. According to the tweet in this medium, they would have an AMD Ryzen processor with six cores and twelve processing threads (SMT), working at 3.3GHz. They would not be processors made this way, they would be eight-core and eight-thread processors, which have a defective or disabled core and used as a six-core processor.

It has not been the only ones, the Danish medium IT-Tech He has also reported on this, clarifying that the Ryzen processors would arrive in 4/6/8 core versions. The Ryzen processors would be configured in two blocks of four cores and to manufacture the six-core processors, AMD would deactivate the cores 0 and 4 or use processors with two faulty cores, recycling these processors. This would disable the L2 cache memory of these cores, but the L3 cache memory would remain active, so there will be no reduction of it, in principle.

Finally, Videocardz has also used its sources to confirm that there will be a six-core processor. They have used engineering information that would validate all the data we have seen. This medium also reports that there is no data on a quad-core engineering processor, but there would be a six-core engineering processor and at least two completely different eight-core engineering processors.

The information on AMD Ryzen is logical that they do not stop and in the coming weeks we will see new data on these processors that will hit the market in a few weeks. We will see when these reach the market, which parts of the information have been true and which are the result of rumors. What we are most interested in knowing is the performance of these.