More pins equals more performance, right? If so, get ready for AMD's next-gen AM6 CPU socket. According to a new AMD patent filing (via Bits and Chips), it'll have about 2,100 of the pointy little suckers, a significant step up from the 1,718 pins of AM5. But here's the really good news, the socket is basically the same size and shape as AM5.
In other words, it's designed to be backwards compatible with the heatsinks and other cooling attachments, like water blocks, available for AM5. More pins in essentially the same socket area, of course, means the contacts in the AM6 socket are much more dense than AM5.
