Tuesday, August 20th 2024
AMD Readies Ryzen 5 7600X3D to Rescue its Ryzen 5 AM5 Lineup
AMD is reportedly giving finishing touches to the Ryzen 5 7600X3D 6-core/12-thread processor featuring 3D V-cache. The company plans to launch this chip in early September 2024. The timing of this launch is particularly interesting, given that the company just got its Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" desktop processors powered by the latest "Zen 5" microarchitecture into the shelves. The 7600X3D is probably designed to be the company's fastest gaming processor in the Ryzen 5 series, the Ryzen 5 9600X is already 5.2% faster in games than the Intel Core i5-14600K, however, the 14600K makes up for this with 7.8% better multithreaded application performance. The 7600X3D with its 3D V-cache could offer a sufficiently higher gaming performance than the i5-14600K to woo the sub-$300 crowd to the AMD camp.
Why "Zen 4" now? AMD is definitely developing a Ryzen 9000X3D series powered by "Zen 5," but those processors probably won't arrive until the very end of 2024 or Q1-2025. It's easier for the company to come up with the 7600X3D by simply disabling two cores from the 8-core "Zen 4" 3D V-cache CCD used in the popular 7800X3D. Not much else is known about the 7600X3D other than its existence, its likely core-count of 6-core/12-thread, and of course its cache sizes of 1 MB per core L2, with 96 MB of L3 cache (32 MB on-die + 64 MB 3D V-cache).
Sources:
Hoang Anh Phu (Twitter), VideoCardz
Why "Zen 4" now? AMD is definitely developing a Ryzen 9000X3D series powered by "Zen 5," but those processors probably won't arrive until the very end of 2024 or Q1-2025. It's easier for the company to come up with the 7600X3D by simply disabling two cores from the 8-core "Zen 4" 3D V-cache CCD used in the popular 7800X3D. Not much else is known about the 7600X3D other than its existence, its likely core-count of 6-core/12-thread, and of course its cache sizes of 1 MB per core L2, with 96 MB of L3 cache (32 MB on-die + 64 MB 3D V-cache).
61 Comments on AMD Readies Ryzen 5 7600X3D to Rescue its Ryzen 5 AM5 Lineup
I wonder if the 7600X3D will entice the people on a budget to go for AM5 over 5700X3D.
Guessing $229-249 any more expensive and it doesn't make sense. Although it should be $199.
To me it makes sense if they have no immediate plans for a 9600X3D and want to charge 400+ for the cheapest 9000X3D product.
This product likely was planned prior to the 9000 series launch they also seem to be doing a wide release of a Am4 option giving both platforms good gaming options at the low end.
They probably rather continue to sell 7000 series to consumers with the majority of good 9000 series ccd going to server where it actually is pretty good.
AM4 is still selling thanks to X3D.
AMD is winning in gaming benchmarks thanks to X3D.
9000 series is a failure and people still waiting for the 9000 X3D versions.
Anyway, AMD needs to offer that 5500X3D at less than $150, and this 7600X3D at less than $250. The more X3D models they throw in the market the better for them. It's the only way to face Intel that is winning the multithreading benchmarks offering more cores. In fact AMD needs to lower the cost of putting those memory chips on top of it's CCDs so much as much as it will make them a mandatory part of the chip. Imagine a (let's say) 10000 series, where ALL models come with X3D cache on them at the same prices we see today the non X3D models.There are no low cost Zen4/5 models in the market, no cheap AM5 boards in the market and DDR5 still is much more expensive than DDR4.
If AMD stops supporting AM4 people will go straight to Intel for a cheaper option.
This is already old news and the vast majority buying OEM systems don't even know about the issue. What they know is that OEM PC A comes with 12 cores and OEM PC B comes with 8 cores. They don't even understant what that 4+8 means next to that 12 number. 12 > 8, "I buy the 12 cores model".
9600X beat or 'tied' 7800X3D in 10 of 14 tests TPU performed at 1440p, or 5 of 14 at 1080p. Not sure why people keep missing that.
AM5 is also at a point where costs should come down for 1st gen parts. When the X870,X870E boards launch there will still be plenty of B650 and X670E boards to sell at better prices and 32GB DDR5 6000 30 timing RAM from TEAM is regularly $129 CAD on sale on Newegg. With the boom going on in the US I expect this chip to rival the 7800X3D in sales once released.
The first HDD for example with a capacity of 4TBs, was released back in 2011. How many check if their ***new*** 4TB HDD that they got for storage is a model first released in 2024, 2020 or 2016? Performance is probably more or less the same, between those models and capacity obviously the same. Most hardware is valid in the market for many years. In GPUs we have 2-3-more generations selling at various price points(AMD: Vega, RDNA2, RDNA3, soon RDNA3.5 - Nvidia: 4000, 3000 and still 2000, 1600 series and 1000 series in mobiles and sub $150 discrete market).
Apple has gone from the company that only sells 2 models to the company that sells multiple generations of models. Many just want an Apple, they don't care if it is a 3 years old model as long as the price is right for them.
Hardware remains in the market for much longer now, because it has far exceeded the needs of the majority of consumers.
For example AM4 X3D last I checked was selling nicely in the German market. I wouldn't call Germany a country where new CPUs and platforms are late to arrive. Even in Amazon US AM4 models keep selling. Is US years behind? Are US citizens poor and can only afford AM4?
It's not about rich and poor regions. It's about "Is it good enough for the job I want to do?".