AMD has not yet completed the AM4 family layout. This has been confirmed by themselves, but how does the company plan to design the future development path of this platform? The answer is to expand it with more Ryzen CPUs with 3D V-Cache and lower-end options. There have been various rumors about AMD's plans for the AM4 platform, and now the company has launched the AM5 platform with support for Ryzen 7000 CPUs with Zen 4 cores and DDR5/PCIe 5.0 support.
However, AMD knows that the vast majority of its user base will not move to AM5 yet. So AMD gave us a teaser of what to expect on this platform with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and several mainstream Ryzen 5000 options. Based on the latest rumors, it looks like we'll be seeing more action on the AM4 platform in the coming months.
leaker Greymon55 claims that the rumors that AMD is preparing not one but several Zen 3D products under the AM4 banner are true, and more information will be available this month. Please note that only Zen 3D is mentioned, which means we will get new CPU models under the Ryzen 5000 series. AMD's 5800X3D is based on the 5800X, adds cache, and retains the 8-core/16-thread design.
’s next new product may be based on Ryzen 5600X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X. We can't say exactly which SKU will get the 3D V-Cache treatment, but the 5600X3D will be a single CCD V-Cache chip offering 32 MB L3 + 64 MB LLC (V-Cache). Ryzen 9 parts will theoretically use dual V-Cache CCDs, so you will most likely see 64 MB L3 + 128 MB LLC (V-Cache) or 64 MB per CCD for a total of 192MB of cache. If you add 8MB of L2, that's a scary 200MB of L3 cache.
Now, AMD can take an interesting route in the V-Cache part of Ryzen 9, which is to provide one CCD with V-Cache and another without V-Cache, for a total of 128MB of cache. That's still 33% more cache than the 5800X3D, which will obviously lead to some impressive gaming performance numbers.
But as we mentioned earlier, we can't confirm if such a SKU exists, other than to say that AMD may be working on it. As for low-end parts, AMD may plan to replace its Ryzen 4000 Renoir-X chips with Cezanne-X chips under the Ryzen 5000 series. Cezanne-X with Zen 3 cores will provide better performance and give AMD a good chance to compete with Intel 's Alder Lake and Raptor Lake budget CPUs before Zen 4 becomes mainstream.
3D V-Cache Ryzen 5000 CPUs will allow AM4 users to have distinctive models without having to change their entire platform to migrate to AM5. That said, AM5 will also get an upgraded Zen 4 V-Cache lineup by the end of the year, giving enthusiast gamers the option to stick with their existing AM4 setup and use Zen 3D parts, or go all out with the high-end Zen 4D range ability.
