New processors are also always an opportunity for new die-shots of the silicon chips. Our community member OC_Burner also grabbed a Ryzen 5 X, beheaded it and tried it under the take a look at the first protective layers. However, this time the procedure did not go quite as planned, because when the heat spreader was removed, the indium solder between the chips and the heat spreader was probably not soft enough and tore off part of the CCD with it.

The result looked like this:

But the work can still be used because the important areas of the chips are easy to see. In the meantime, the sizes of the two chips are also known: The IOD comes on 125 mm², has 2, 11 Billion transistors and will be in 12 nm manufactured by GlobalFoundries. The CCD with the eight cores comes on 45, 7 mm², consists of 4, 15 Billions of transistors and comes off the conveyor belt at TSMC in 7 nm. The CCD is slightly larger in terms of dimensions and the number of transistors than its predecessor Matisse based on Zen 2.

Under infrared light, silicon is partially transparent and the following images were created:

The larger IOP can be seen on the left. At the top right the CCD with its eight Zen 3 cores. Directly below that, the space and also the necessary contact surfaces and conductor tracks can be seen to accommodate a second CCD, as is the case for the Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 9 5950 X is the case. There are also the first analyzes based on the new chip shots. The CCDs with Zen-2 and Zen-3 cores are largely similar. The new L3 cache structure can be clearly seen, as it is only available as 32 MB cache is available to all eight cores. The Micro-Op-, L1- and L2-Cache are largely untouched and have been completely repositioned.

In the coming days, OC_Burner will take photos of the chips under different wavelengths or light from different Publish directions and angles. These will surely produce chic desktop backgrounds again. You can find all pictures in the Flickr photo stream.

At this point the reference to the test of the Ryzen 9 5900 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X and the update to Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 7 5600 X.