AMD might have replaced 14nm Ryzen 5 1600 processors with 12nm 2600 ones

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Over the past few days some weird chatter has hit the web, AMD would be shipping 14nm Ryzen 1600 processors, however no based on the Zen+ architecture at 12nm. They have the same IPC as the 2600 but slightly ower clock speeds, though boost behavior is still somewhat better than with the original 1600. But it is not clear whether they are actually baked on the newer production process, or whether it is an incorrect report due to, for example, a new stepping. In Cinebench R20, the tested AF version of the Ryzen 5 1600 scores about 400 points higher than the original processors from 2017. With this score, the chip roughly comes next to its successor, the Ryzen 5 2600 , which was officially baked at 12nm .

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