A claimed 120 percent IPC jump sounds like a spec sheet having main character energy, right up until you remember spec sheets don't leak on their own, people do, and people are wrong about silicon constantly.

That's the number making rounds this week: a report from gamegpu.com claims the Zen 6 CPU allegedly destined for the PlayStation 6 could deliver up to 120 percent more instructions per clock than the Zen 2 cores grinding away in the PS5 today. RedGamingTech picked up the claim and walked through it in a breakdown comparing the alleged Zen 6 part against existing AMD silicon, including the Ryzen 7 4800H, the Ryzen 7 3700X, and the 7800X3D, all chips with real, measured specs sitting on TechPowerUp and geared benchmark data on Geekbench. Comparing a real chip to a leaked one is exactly the kind of math that makes a number sound more solid than it is.

What's actually leaked versus what's actually known

None of this traces back to Sony. The specifications themselves come from an earlier report on OC3D alleging the PS6's silicon, and a separate claim from HotHardware that the console's system-on-chip may already be finalized. A finalized SoC and a 120 percent IPC figure are two different claims from two different outlets, and stacking them doesn't make either one more true, it just makes the thread longer.

Tom's Hardware has actual, on-record detail about AMD's Zen 5 compact core and SoC architecture work, which is useful context for how AMD builds these chips generally, but it is not confirmation of anything specific to a PS6 part. Treat the gap between 'AMD has done this kind of work before' and 'AMD is doing this exact thing for Sony' as the gap the whole leak is riding on.

The IPC math, tested the way you'd test any claim

A 120 percent IPC increase over Zen 2 would be enormous, roughly doubling single-thread throughput before you even touch clocks or core count. Run that number against your own expectations for a moment: Zen 2 to Zen 6 covers several real architectural generations, so a large gain isn't implausible on its face, it's the specific figure that's unverified, sourced from an unofficial outlet rather than from AMD or Sony directly. No official specification sheet, no dev kit document, no Sony statement has surfaced to back the number. RedGamingTech's video frames it explicitly as a leak and an analysis, not an announcement, which is the correct framing and the one worth holding onto when the headline inevitably gets flattened elsewhere.

The console generation keeps getting speculated into existence one alleged core count at a time. Until Sony's own silicon roadmap says otherwise, every IPC figure attached to the PS6 belongs in the same drawer as every other unverified chip leak: interesting, plausible, and resting entirely on sources that aren't Sony.