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
For basic desktop usage AM4 is awesome.
Both my previous MSI or my current ASUS mainboard have some UEFI / AGESA / "Bios" issues.
My ASUS AM5 / Ryzen 7600X is a bit better as my sold MSI B550 Gaming EDGE WIFI / Ryzen 5800X but still faulty as hell with the current UEFI I flashed a few hours ago. I also have another 10 monthos of warranty left vs no warranty on a faulty AM4 setup in Gnu linux and windows 10 pro in the perspective of February 2023. Am4 is mediocre when compiling software on a regular basis
I'm also happy that I sold AM4. Recently I read that Ryzen 3000, a processor from 2019 according ot the article, do get the security fix in the uefi/bios. We are talking about ~4 year old processor basically when you are considering the availability to myself as customer in europe. 4 year old AMD processors do not get any updates. I see it from the perspective of the first update cycle before AMD changed their mind. I do not care that AMD changed their mind a a few days later. (For updating the Ryzen 3000 processors.)
The Ryzen 7600X was the smallest processor available at the time of purchase.
Take a few steps back lol. The DIY market is a tiny sliver of reality, but there's an impressive disbalance in the number of 'influencers' on this market. They all gotta earn that sweet sweet ad money for exhausting and copying each other's hot air.
It comes down to how much of a Lemming you want to be... historical context is all you need for a bit of perspective and reality check. The world hasn't even turned upside down from nearly a decade of Bulldozer and Intel quadcore dominance, why would it now?
When I upgraded from 7600X to 9700X, my current fav game - Starfield chews up all 16 threads with exactly the same cpu usage in all threads on avg compared to the Zen 4 chip according to HWiNFO. More than likely though it's the creation 2 engine not being optimised very well for PC.
AMD sure love kicking their own ass
Launch price: $349 + bad reviews due to price and/or availability.
Price drop after two weeks: $299
The answer is no. I know because we've analyzed this on TPU in the Starfield topic earlier. All that CPU 'load' in Starfield is just the result of a very messy engine. Its not even about PC optimization, its just the shitty state of Creation Engine overall, its a scrambled mess of code.
Even 8 thread is already more than sufficient, and even 'extremely fine'. I disabled SMT on my 7800X3D, and the only differences I saw were actually gains in FPS. 8c/8t. There is not a single game I've played since that shows lower performance than running 8c16t.
Elsewhere you see games like Cyberpunk eat a lot of threads, but you will also notice none of them, or just one of them, is fully utilized. Most are pushing something around 30-60% usage per thread. The bottom line, is that even with better threaded games and better APIs there will still be one heavy sequential game thread that bogs everything down. Some games/game logic/engines just simply don't go further than a specific FPS number either, regardless of the CPU you throw at it.
CPU perf in gaming is highly stagnant and current day procs just destroy virtually everything in gaming with ease. The bigger bottlenecks appear elsewhere.
E cores help in multithreading, they probably don't help in gaming at least not always, but mostly help in advertising more cores.
for new processors for the last 20 years Intel or AMD always claims 14% performance increase