AM4's Last Hurrah: AMD Unveils 7 New Ryzen 4000 and 5000 CPUs at Nice Prices
AMD’s AM4 socket platform has had a good run—it presided over the company's spectacular, phoenix-like ascent in desktop processors with the introduction of the first Ryzen family in 2017. But its time as a leading-edge platform is almost at an end. AMD has already announced that its AM5 platform will launch in the fall. But before that happens, AM4 gets one last star turn, and existing AM4 customers gain a retroactive upgrade path that we rarely see in the PC market nowadays.
Come April, AMD will ship seven new desktop CPUs, including what it claims will be its fastest AM4 gaming processor to date, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. At the same time, AMD is pushing to make available BIOS updates for the oldest AM4 motherboards, enabling owners of original Ryzen systems to upgrade to new Ryzen 5000-series processors.
Putting prices aside for now, the most exciting new processor that AMD has coming in April will be the new Ryzen 7 5800X3D. AMD announced this chip back during CES 2022, but it’s only now that we are getting hard details about its release and price. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D contains eight "Zen 3"-derived CPU cores with SMT support. The cores are clocked at 3.4GHz, and they boost up to 4.5GHz under the right conditions.
Clock for clock, this makes the Ryzen 7 5800X3D slightly slower than the company's Ryzen 7 5800X that launched back in 2020. The difference, though? The new chip is the first processor to use AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D has an enormous 96MB pool of L3 cache, versus the Ryzen 7 5800X’s 32MB of L3.
Depending on the workload, this cache boost could give the Ryzen 7 5800X3D an advantage even though it’s clocked slightly lower. That’s why AMD is targeting the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a gaming chip, as
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