PC gamers holding off upgrading their AMD PCs till the next-gen 3D V-Cache models come up. The company is expected to release the Ryzen 7000 X3D processors at January’s CES in Las Vegas and along with it the hopes of its new Socket AM5 platform finally taking off. 

Sales of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series have been sluggish – so much so that the company has slashed prices across the world in the hope of boosting sales. One reason behind this slow uptake apart from the high motherboard prices and the requirement for expensive DDR5 memory is the company’s own Ryzen 7 5800X3D with its 3D V-Cache. 

This processor took the gaming world at a high peak with its crazy performance compared to other CPUs in the same range with the same Zen 3 architecture and also took the crown from Intel’s 12th Gen CPUs in many games irrespective of its aging architecture. 

However, it also had two unintended consequences for its new Ryzen 7000 series. At first, gamers who are looking for an upgrade would have seen benchmarks of its Ryzen 7000 series not providing compelling upgrades over the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, especially given the higher overall costs of motherboards and memory. Gamers who are upgrading from older CPUs would have seen the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a decent, affordable upgrade, especially as many first-gen Socket AM4 motherboards were compatible with it. 

Secondly, even if they were ready to upgrade to Socket AM5, gamers will know that new 3D V-Cache models are almost there. As per AMD’s former director of technical marketing, Robert Hallock, the 3D V-Cache versions of the Ryzen 7000-series might not launch with the actual 7000 series. 

That is true indeed and it is certain that AMD will declare them at January 2023’s CES in Las Vegas. Given the popularity of the 5800X3D, it is true that Ryzen 7000 owners might be waiting to own a new 3D V-Cache model rather than purchasing a standard model now and that is to be usurped by a newer model, most importantly, a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or same as that. 

While 3D V-Cache models lack performance in various non-gaming tasks, for PC gamers, they make sense and Ryzen 7000-series X3D models won’t be faster outside of games than the Ryzen 5000 series but will be faster in games than the latest Ryzen 7000 CPUs. 

The interesting figures will not be Ryzen 7000 series sales, but those of the Ryzen 7000 X3D models in the first quarter of next year will receive a January launch. Intel in the meanwhile has its Core i9-13900KS processor waiting and it is expected to release at the same time. The Core i9-13900KS is a Core i9-13900K, with the exception that it can reach 6GHz out of the box, so it is expected to have an edge over the existing lightning-fast standard model. 

We will soon update you about the launch of both models as well as news and reviews of other hardware like AMD’s Radeon RX 7900XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards next month so you need to follow our site for future updates.