Tuesday, August 20th 2024
![AMD](https://tpucdn.com/images/news/amd-v1723816949774.png)
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).
60 Comments on AMD Readies Ryzen 5 7600X3D to Rescue its Ryzen 5 AM5 Lineup
The Budget choice should always be in socket upgrade.
I think a 5500X3D was announced on AM4?
Similarly at some point a 9500/9600X3D will appear too. A 9700+9800X3D… and so on!
I’ve said it many times since 9600X/9700X launch.
AMD wants gamers exclusively on X3D line. So they don’t care how the nonX3D are performing.
Keep the “regular” 9500-9700X for entry-mid level computing, have the 12/16 core for productivity and flood the market with X3Ds from top to bottom level prices.
AMD (and partners) kneecapped their own platform with AM5. Other than PCIeGen5, any ATX AM4 x570 board has drastically more expandability v. common AM5 motherboard models.
Rescue AM5... lol. Nobody's drowning
9##0X3D is also looking interesting, if only for the rumored 'tweakability' previously locked-down on Zen3D and Zen4 3D.
Said this before though and will say it again, AMD pushed me into a corner when I would have bought a 5600x3D if it was not an MC exclusive, the only other option was when the 5700x3D came out at £230 which I wasn't willing to pay so plumbed for a 5700x, I have no need to upgrade to AM5 at this moment in time nor will I now buy an AM4 x3D chip as I have spent £100's on AM4 chips since it's inception starting with the Athlon 200g, 1600, 1600AF, 3200g, 5500 and 5700x
Just get the 9800/9900/9950 x3D variants out already..
So zen 4 to the rescue i guess.
View this article to understand.
www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-zen-5-technical-deep-dive/2.html
PS AM3 and 7th to 9th gen systems are many years apart.
AMD wants to sell the 8-core 3D cache instead of the cheaper and almost as quick 6 core. Considering how major they messed up RDNA 3 (7600, 7700 XT, 7900 XT) I feel like the same could be said here, priced expensive for profit.
They would rather kill their reputation instead of losing 1000 dollars TBH...
doing jobs that actually benefit from the upgrade to zen 5
i doubt amd thinks of zen 5 as a failure, Ryzen 9**** is probably a write off