AMD may be onto Ryzen 9000 processors at this level, however there’s a brand new CPU incoming from two generations again – if a brand new rumor is appropriate.
Sure, AM4 (the earlier CPU socket to the present AM5, which was launched with last-gen Ryzen 7000) remains to be going, presumably, as leaker Harukaze5719 on X has uncovered an EEC (Eurasian Financial Fee) submitting that reveals a Ryzen 5 5500X3D.
Ryzen 5 5500X3D.STOP IT! PLZ Not to mention AM4 to useless! Do not you wish to promote AM5?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/lbXwxXiRCk pic.twitter.com/S2ebhURI7EAugust 13, 2024
This could, in concept, sit beneath the prevailing 5600X3D as an reasonably priced gaming CPU (we’ll come again to that), with 3D V-Cache pepping up the efficiency in PC video games.
Just like the 5600X3D, it’ll be a 6-core (12-thread) processor, in keeping with one other leaker (chi11eddog, who made this prediction a while in the past), with a base clock of 3GHz and increase to 4GHz (alongside 96MB of L3 cache).
After all, take the purported spec with seasoning, and the identical is true of the presence of this CPU within the EEC database. Many merchandise are listed in stated database, and a few {hardware} is merely speculatively filed, so that is removed from a concrete indication that the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is inbound.
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There’s a bit extra weight to the 5500X3D processor seemingly being deliberate for launch by AMD, on condition that chi11eddog leaked the spec of the 5700X3D on the identical time – and that turned out to be actual. Certainly, the 5700X3D was launched in January 2024, and the spilled spec was useless on the cash, too.
Why may AMD proceed to extract extra mileage from the Ryzen 5000 collection on this means? Nicely, the lowest-end 3D V-Cache processor, the 5600X3D, isn’t in inventory any longer, and was solely a Micro Middle unique to start with – seemingly as a result of there weren’t that many CPUs rolling off the manufacturing line. Primarily as a result of these had been constructed round wonky dies that couldn’t be utilized in Ryzen 5800X3D chips, so had been drafted into this lesser mannequin with the defective cores disabled.
Basically, AMD seemingly has some extra of that silicon – perhaps a good bit extra – and clearly needs to make use of it (moderately than throw it away), so could possibly be taking a brand new tack with a 5500X3D that can hopefully be out there extra broadly (not simply at a single US retailer, as was the case with the 5600X3D). That stated, you’d think about the amount of chips out there received’t be huge, however perhaps AMD figures the viewers for a 5500X3D may be considerably slim – seeing as we’re two generations of CPUs on, at this level.
Nonetheless, it’d properly be extra standard than Workforce Crimson anticipates, because the 5500X3D might nonetheless make an excellent engine for one of many greatest price range gaming PCs on the AM4 platform.
Keep in mind, we had been critically impressed with the worth and gaming chops of the 5600X3D when it emerged a 12 months in the past, and whereas the 5500X3D is a good bit slower for clock speeds (400MHz much less for increase, in concept), this purported chip shouldn’t be too far off the tempo in any respect. If – and it stays a sizeable if – it does certainly exist, and AMD plans to unleash the CPU quickly.
Through Tom’s {Hardware}
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