Although AMD has yet to release details about its next-generation, Zen 2-based Ryzen CPUs, we've had leaks and rumors that suggested they'll be very powerful indeed. The latest leak doesn't tell us much about their capabilities, but it does give us an idea of the naming conventions we'll see and they are unsurprisingly based on the second-generation of Ryzen 2000-series CPUs.
Spotted by VideoCardz, Korean website HardwareBattle was holding a competition through a local sales agency that had been hired by AMD to conduct it. The contest is set to end on December 14th and will see AMD giving away new Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 3600X CPUs. Those chips wouldn't be sent out at the end of the competition, but when they are generally released, which oddly, the competition doesn't detail.
AMD's Ryzen 3000 CPUs are expected to be officially unveiled at CES 2019 in January, and may start hitting retail shelves soon after. All signs point to a release in Q1 of next year, but no one is exactly sure when. As we learn more details at the Las Vegas show, we'll probably here about a release date too.
What this contest does do, though, is confirm that AMD has replacements for its most popular 2600X and 2700X CPUs, though we do expect a wider range with Ryzen 3000 chips, including a monstrous 3850X, which is said to have as many as 16 cores and a turbo boost frequency as high as 5.1GHz.
If true, that could make it the most powerful consumer CPU in the world, well ahead of the likes of Intel's 9900K.