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AMD Announces New Desktop Zen 3 Chips With 2 New APUs and the Ryzen 7 5700X3D

by Gavin Bonshor on January 8, 2024 10:32 AM EST One of AMD's most innovative desktop processor designs in recent years has to be the X3D series, with their 3D V-Cache packaging technology. Since AMD launched their Zen 3-based RYzen 7 5800X3D back in April of 2022, the sky has been the limit for AMD's L3 cache-stacked chips, which have had significant benefits in gaming, especially in titles that can leverage larger amounts of L3 cache.

With new processors to take advantage of the cheaper AM4 boards and DDR4 memory, AMD is looking to leverage the low production costs of their existing (and well amortized) silicon to offer better chips across all budgets. All of AMD's Ryzen 5000X3D processors support DDR4-3200 memory and are CPU ratio/frequency locked, meaning users can't overclock them. This is a testament to the Vega GPU architecture's longevity, and also makes for a bit of an awkward moment as AMD is in the process of winding down driver support for it.

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