Do you remember when Ryzen 2000 (Zen+) launched with the flagship processor being the Ryzen 7 2700X? We all felt that was a little weird, as the previous generation had a Ryzen 7 1800X. In my 2700X review, I already mentioned that AMD might be holding back processors, waiting on Intel to release the Core 9000 series processors.

Well, it's a bit confusing to see really, but a screenshot leaked showing a partially Cinebench score based on a processor called Ryzen R7 2800X. The shocking thing here is that it is listed as being a 10-core processor. The news of this 10-core part surfaced at elchapuzasinformatico and the picture shows clock speeds in Cinebench at 4.00 GHz with a reportedly multi-core score of roughly 2130 points.

To be brutally honest, the photo is a bit of a clusterfrack to see as 10-cores does not make any sense whatsoever. ZEN+ dies have 8 cores, only a multi-die proc would be able to achieve 10 cores. And even then the core complex is in multitudes of four cores, so 12 cores would be the next logical step. There's also no source mentioned of that photo and the 'R7' entry does not match up as well, as that should read Ryzen 7 2x00X.

So that's enough disclaimers I think, grains of salt included.

AMD 10-core Ryzen 2800X in response to Intel Core i9-9900K?