AMD might have only just launched its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D high-end gaming and productivity chip, but we're already starting to hear rumors of the next generation. The future Ryzen 10000 CPUs, based on a future Zen 6 architecture,

Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don't really scale past four to six cores—fanboys have accused AMD of "stagnating" much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max out at sixteen cores for four successive generations.

While AMD’s first Zen 5 CPUs disappointed everyone in gaming, the latest X3D versions have more than made up for that. The 9800X3D became the best gaming CPU last year, and now the 9950X3D greatly improves creator workloads while mostly maintaining that stellar gaming performance.

A new rumour by Chiphell poster, zhangzhonghao, suggests that AMD's upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Ridge Ryzen CPUs could house up to 32 cores.

If you're thinking of jumping on the AMD bandwagon for your next upgrade, now is certainly the right time to do so. Alongside the Ryzen 7 9800X3D which debuted earlier this year, AMD has just released its two higher-end Ryzen 9 siblings in the Zen 5 "X3D" stack: the 9950X3D is available for $699 and the 9900X3D is available for $599.