AMD isn’t preparing just new high-end “X3D” gaming processors with Zen 5 architecture; cheaper alternatives could launch alongside them. According to a leak, the company could release a budget gaming processor with 3D V-Cache utilizing older Zen 4 cores. This model would be similar in nature to the popular Ryzen 7 5700X3D or the recent 5500X3D model, but using the current AM5 platform instead of AM4, which is now a dead end.
Momomo_us news that AMD is preparing to release a processor designated Ryzen 5 7500X3D shared on the former Twitter. The processor was found in the catalog of one retailer (Westcoast in the UK), including its numerical code, which is said to be 100-000001904. This detail suggests this is likely real information and this CPU will actually reach the market at some point, rather than the retailer merely speculating.
Unfortunately, the processor’s parameters are not on the company’s website, so for now we can only guess what to expect. Given the Ryzen 5 7000 series designation, it is almost certain to have six Zen 4 cores with 12 threads. The X3D suffix should mean the usual 96MB L3 cache of these processors, which is the source of the high gaming performance they are well-known for.
The clock speeds are hard to guess, however. AMD already has one X3D six-core from the Zen 4 generation, the 7600X3D model with a base clock of 4.1 GHz and a maximum boost of 4.7 GHz. A model labeled 7500X3D will have to have lower clock speeds (similar to the mentioned Ryzen 5 5500X3D), because AMD likely uses chips in it that did not meet the parameters required for the 7600X3D model during binning. How much the clock speeds drop in this case, we don’t know. It will likely correspond to a performance decrease somewhere in the 5–10% range. AMD could disable part of the cache too in theory, which would lead to a larger drop in gaming performance, but the company has not done this with any X3D model so far.
In any case, the processor will use socket AM5 and DDR5 memory (which, since DDR4 prices shot up this summer, is an advantage). It’s a question of whether it will be widely available in stores, or if AMD will only see limited regional availability, or be limited only to pre-built system integrators as an OEM product. The processor that appeared in the Westcoast catalog was in a tray package, which is typical for the OEM market, but is sometimes tray processors are sold freely in online shops as well.
3D V-Cache for around 250 EUR?
The price this model could have is also unknown. The Ryzen 7600X3D once cost 299 EUR or even less in Germany, and currently can be bought here for around 340 EUR. If the 7500X3D model makes it to our market, it should cost less and be the cheapest X3D model for the AM5 socket. Perhaps it could be for something slightly over 250 EUR, but who knows how AMD will decide.
But it still might not be outright cheap compared to processors without 3D V-Cache (the Ryzen 5 7600 is around 180 EUR today and the 7500F model is around 150; simultaneously, the price of the 9600X has already dropped below 200 EUR).
Alongside this model, there have also been reports that a six-core with 3D V-Cache based on the Zen 5 generation could be released (the Ryzen 5 9600X3D model). So, together with the new high-end Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 models, as many as four new gaming CPU models for the AM5 platform could come to the market more or less simultaneously. AMD will likely release some of them in January during CES 2026, but it’s not entirely out of the question that some models (like this 7500X3D, since it belongs to the older generation) could come out sooner.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
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