@DrMrLordX and myself figured this may be the case if Warhol didn't turn out to be a red herring thrown out by AMD to mess with leakers. There is no other viable scenario. The XT launch merely emphasis this may be the case. However, I suspect the Warhol refresh will offer some uplift, but not much. They'd save the good stuff for Zen4, not Zen3+.There seems to be a Zen 3+ type chip (Warhol) on AM5 with DDR5 for mid 2021. That will be good to get the socket out there with DDR5 and get all of the issues worked out before Zen 4. If it is still on 7 nm then it may not be that much of an upgrade from the initial AM4 Zen 3, so it may be low volume pipe cleaning.
I personally don't believe Warhol is real. I had a portion of that leak from a few months prior to it and it looks like something I could design in Illustrator in a half hour. It isn't very complicated. I definitely don't believe it to be authentic, and if it is, it does point to AMD messing with leakers. We don't hear anything about Zen 3 other than AMD's official comments yet somehow we know about a refresh that came out of nowhere? No way, Jose. Something is fishy. I wouldn't put it past AMD to discredit leakers, and I'd agree with their actions there.
Milan ES was spotted in June through publication of reports. There was talk of Milan ES being in the wild for many months prior to that initial public disclosure by Red Hat devs. I don't for a second buy that AMD wouldn't begin testing its flagship line over a year before it releases.
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