AMD’s new Ryzen 5000/4000 CPUs will not be available until next month (April 20th), which means that independent reviews will have to wait a few weeks longer. AMD claims that its X3D component is 15% faster in games than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, the business stated that the additional 64 MB cache will improve performance in games rather than synthetic benchmarks.

The CPU scores on Geekbench look to be a decent example of this. Despite having lower clock speeds, the CPU is nevertheless able to score 9 percent higher in multi-core despite having no performance boost in single-core.

The 5800X3D is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen3 processor based on the ‘Vermeer-X’ technology. It has a total cache of 96 MB (32+64), which is three times that of the 5800X. The TDP envelope of the CPU will remain at 105W, however the CPU frequencies will be 200 to 400 MHz slower. Unfortunately, there isn’t a “easy” solution to speed up the clock. AMD has already said that this SKU will not support traditional overclocking.

The CPU’s official MSRP is $449 USD (407 EUR), which is roughly mirrored in early merchant listings (without VAT). It’s listed for 503 EUR (with VAT) and 416 EUR (without VAT) in the Dutch store ‘2Compute.’

On April 20th, AMD will release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, along with a slew of new Ryzen 5000 and 4000 SKUs. This is likely AMD’s final attempt to keep the AM4 platform alive before migrating to the AM5 socket for the Zen4 platform.