Unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D Engineering Sample Appears With 128 MB L3 Cache

Unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D With 128MB L3 Cache Surfaces

Details of an unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D recently appeared on the internet, indicating that the red chipmaker may have initially planned on releasing two SKUs at the time. If it did, it would have most certainly given the Ryzen 7 5800X3D a real run for its money. Evidence of the 5900X3D appeared on the […]

Engineering samples of the canceled AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D appear online

A unique engineering sample of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D processor appeared on the Chinese Chiphell forum, but the sample was never mass-produced. This 12-core, 24-thread Zen 3 architecture chip numbered 100-000000652 reveals a very interesting detail: AMD engineers had already begun experimenting with an asymmetric cache layout before the introduction of the AM5 socket. […]

AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day — canceled Ryzen 9 5900X3D breaks free from the chipmaker's vault

A user from the Chinese Chiphell forums shows off AMD's unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D, the X3D variant of the Ryzen 9 5900X.