Ryzen 7000 X3D announced
CES kicked off the new year with a bang with many chip announcements from AMD, Intel and Nvidia.
Probably the most anticipated announcement was the Ryzen 7000X3D parts. Following on from the huge success of the 5800X3D, these next generation X3D parts take the same formula of stacking a 3D V-cache chip on top of the latest CPUs to increase L3 cache sizes.
AMD is expanding the range of products this generation to three with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D. These are all like their non-X3D brethren except when it comes to frequencies. Relative to the Ryzen 7700X the 7800X3D drops 400MHz off