Recently, AMD set off a new wave of offensive in 2022, officially releasing amD's strongest game processor, as well as 6 other Ryzen™ processors, that is to say, AMD released as many as 7 new products in one go. The most important of these is, of course, AMD's strongest gaming processor: the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D. Now to improve the game performance of the processor, in addition to upgrading the core architecture of the processor, the production process, the simplest and easiest way to achieve is to increase the processor's cache capacity.
The Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D stacks an additional 64MB L3 cache on top of the L3 cache location of the Ryzen™ 7 5800X, bringing the total L3 cache capacity to 96MB.
Therefore, AMD uses a 3D stacking technology called "3D Chiplet" (3D chiplet) to increase the three-level cache, the so-called 3D stacking is to stack the chip vertically without changing the original package area, so as to achieve the purpose of increasing the cache capacity. The technology uses two processes: Micro Bump 3D and TSV interconnect. With AMD's deep partnership with TSMC, its interconnect media uses a new hydrophilic dielectric bonding based on CU-CU bonding technology. According to AMD data, the mixed use of these two processes makes its connection density 200 times higher than that of the 2D process, the interconnection density is 15 times higher than that of the micro-bump process alone, and the energy efficiency of the chip interconnection is also 3 times higher than that of the micro-bump process.
Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D boxed schematic with the addition of the 3D V-CACHE logo.
Therefore, this also allows AMD to finally successfully launch the official version of the Ryzen™ processor using the 3D stacking process - the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. From the specification point of view, this processor is similar to the previous Ryzen™ 7 5800X specifications, it still uses 8 cores, 16 threads design, but the operating frequency has decreased. The Ryzen™ 7 5800X has a reference clock frequency of 3.8GHz and a maximum acceleration frequency of 4.7GHz. The Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D has a reference clock frequency of 3.4GHz and a maximum acceleration frequency of 4.5GHz. But in terms of cache capacity, the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D has improved tremendously. First of all, the processor still retains the original 32MB 2D layout L3 cache, while also stacking an additional 64MB L3 cache through 3D stacking technology. This means that the total L3 cache capacity of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is as high as 96MB, while the total L3 cache capacity of the Ryzen 7 5800X is only 32MB, which is 64MB more. So the total L2 cache + L3 cache capacity of the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D will reach a staggering 100MB.
The Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D improves average gaming performance by up to 15%.
Compared to AMD's strongest competitor, the Core i9-12900K, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can also draw or win in many games.
According to AMD's official data, the average game performance of the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D has increased by up to 15%, the game frame count of Watchdog: Legion has increased by up to 40%, the game frame rate in Far Cry 6, Gears of War 5, and Final Fantasy XIV has increased by 20%, and the game frame rate in Tomb Raider: Shadow has also increased by 10%. Compared with AMD's strongest competitor, the Core i9-12900K, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can also draw or win in many games.
The Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D will be available on April 20, 2022 at a reference price of $449.
What is more noteworthy is that AMD also announced the listing date and price of the Ryzen™ 7 5800X3D, which will be listed on April 20, 2022, with a reference price of $449, a discount of 2850 yuan, although there may be a premium when listed in China, but it is believed that it will be much cheaper than the Core i9-12900K priced at 4999 yuan. If it can also draw or win the Core i9-12900K in the game performance test, it will be very cost-effective.
Complementing the mainstream and entry-level markets, 6 new Ryzen™ processors are on the market
In addition to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, AMD also released six other new Ryzen processors, including 8 cores based on Zen 3 architecture, 16 thread processor Ryzen 7 5700X, 6 cores, 12 thread design Ryzen 5 5600, 6 cores, 12 thread design Ryzen 5 5500, and three Ryzen 2 architecture based Ryzen 5 4600G, Ryzen 5 4500, Ryzen 3 4100 processors, completely complementing the mid-range and entry-level markets of AMD processors. Previously, AMD's Ryzen 3 architecture-based Ryzen 5000 series processors only had four models: Ryzen 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X, and Ryzen 9 5950X, and the minimum price started from 1599 yuan (Ryzen 5 5600X), which obviously could not meet the needs of users who did not need too strong performance and limited budgets.
Detailed technical specifications for 6 new Ryzen™ processors
The detailed specifications of the above six processors are shown in the figure, and their TDP thermal design power consumption is very low, only 65W. Among them, the Ryzen 7 5700X has the ability to overclock, but users need to purchase their own heatsinks, while several other processors are equipped with Ghost Sneak 65W silent version heatsinks. The Ryzen™ 5 4600G is the only APU with a built-in display core in the 6 processors, and it has a Vega 7 display core equipped with 448 stream processors, which can meet the needs of ordinary office or online game applications. In terms of price, these products are very affordable, the most expensive Ryzen 7 5700X reference price is 299 US dollars, equivalent to about 1898 yuan, the cheapest Zen 2 processor Ryzen 3 4100 is only 99 US dollars, equivalent to about 628 yuan. The above six processors will be launched on April 4.
All six new products will be launched on April 4.
The old 300 series motherboard can also support the Ryzen™ 5000 series processor
By upgrading the BIOS, the AMD X370, B350, and A320 older motherboards can support the Ryzen 5000 series processors based on the Zen 3 architecture.
In addition to these new processors, AMD has also announced the exciting news of opening up support for Ryzen™ 5000 series processors on AMD 300 Series chipsets, including all new desktop processors launched this time. Older motherboards with AMD X370, B350 and A320 chipsets will support amD Ryzen™ 5000 series processors based on the Zen 3 architecture, providing users with the ability to seamlessly upgrade to "Zen 3" processors, and an updated BETA BIOS is also expected to be available in April.
Obviously, in the face of so many new processor products, the BIOS upgrade of the old motherboard, DIY players who are ready to install the machine in the near future can focus on the new actions of AMD, if AMD can also set a reasonable price for these new processor products after the domestic listing, then they will become a good upgrade or installation choice.