With the official release of Intel's 13th-generation Core processor, the pressure has now come to AMD again. As the two CPU giants competing against each other, Intel reversed its decline with the 12th-generation Core processor and began to quickly regain the market share that was stolen by AMD.
For AMD, how to deal with the more fierce Intel offensive will become the key to the next period of time. Many AMD fans will put their hopes on the Ryzen 7000 series, but judging from the actual test results, although the Ryzen 7000 series has improved a lot, the gap in gaming performance compared to the 13th generation Core processors is still relatively obvious.
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However, AMD is not completely powerless. In the actual test data of various media, AMD still has a processor that shows excellent gaming performance, even surpassing the Ryzen 7000 series processor just released. Friends who often pay attention to the CPU market may have guessed which processor it is. That's right, it is the Ryzen7 5800X3D released by AMD in 2021. The 3D Chiplet structure adopted by
Ryzen7 5800X3D provides users with a cache capacity that is much larger than that of traditional CPUs. With this advantage, it has obvious performance advantages in applications such as games that require high cache requirements. Even if the single-core and multi-core performance are lower than that of Intel's 13th-generation Core and Ryzen 7000 series, the average frame rate can even be slightly ahead.
Seeing this, someone probably feels depressed. Why doesn’t AMD use the same technology on the Ryzen 7000 series? What is
3D What is Chiplet?
Although the 3D Chiplet technology has been launched for more than a year, most people may not know much about this technology. After all, when the 3D version of the Ryzen 5000 series was launched, it was a period of high prices for graphics cards. At that time, the PC DIY market almost fell to a historical low. Naturally, there were not many people paying attention to the processor if they could not buy graphics cards.
However, with the decline in graphics card prices, the discussion on the Ryzen 5000 Series 3D version has increased significantly this year. As a product line specially developed for gamers, the most intuitive improvement of the 3D version processor is the surge in gaming performance. Thanks to the huge three-snap, the gaming performance of this series of processors has increased by 15% compared to the ordinary version.
3D Chiplet is to some extent AMD's secret weapon against Intel. It can double the L3 cache without changing the processor structure, allowing AMD to easily apply it to all existing processors and directly improve the processor's gaming performance by launching the 3D Chiplet version.
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What is 3D Chiplet? Simply put, it is to superimpose a layer of cache chips on the original cache chip, so that the traditional cache chip area can be transformed from a single-layer structure to a double-layer structure. Although it doesn't sound difficult to implement, it actually involves many issues such as packaging and connection. AMD also took a lot of time to overcome this technology.
However, AMD's investment returns are gratifying. 3D Chiplet technology provides new ideas for CPU design and allows manufacturers to effectively improve processor performance at low cost. In the data released by AMD, 3D Chiplet brings more than double the cache capacity, but also reduces the power consumption of the interconnection to one-third of the original, while the interconnection density increases to 15 times. In fact, it improves more than just gaming performance.
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In AMD's server product line, the EYPC series processors have also launched a new version using 3D Chiplet. Thanks to its super data throughput capabilities, this series of processors has also shown significant performance improvements in data processing and other aspects, which can easily achieve higher-speed data processing.
Moreover, AMD bluntly stated that the 3D Chiplet technology used on the Ryzen 5000 series is not a complete version. The 3D Chiplet used in the Ryzen 7000 Series 3D version that will be launched in 2023 is the complete body. AMD originally expected to launch the 3D version of the Ryzen 7000 Series in the third quarter of 2023 to avoid impacting the sales of the Ryzen 7000 Series ordinary version. However, it is reported that AMD has decided to advance the release time of the 3D version to the first quarter to deal with Intel's 13th-generation Core processor.
So, everyone's question has already been answered. It is not that AMD has not completed the research and development of the Ryzen 7000 Series 3D version, but that it hopes to stagger the launch time, allowing users who are concerned about game performance to upgrade the processor twice, and can advance the first quarter of the processor, which was originally scheduled to be released in the third quarter, indicating that this technology is no longer an unsolvable problem in AMD's opinion.
3D Is Chiplet really good?
Since 3D Chiplet has so many advantages, will it dominate the CPU market in the future? In my personal opinion, I think this is possible. For CPU manufacturers and users, 3D Chiplet has the characteristics of low cost and high performance improvement. Even if the price increases slightly compared to the ordinary version of the processor, the performance improvement brought by it is still very cost-effective.
At the price of Ryzen7 5800X3D, its gaming performance is directly comparable to Ryzen9 7900X, and the prices of the two are more than twice. Moreover, the power supply and motherboard required for Ryzen 7000 series processors are also very high. The former is obviously a more affordable choice for gamers.
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Whether from the perspective of the manufacturer or the user, 3D Chiplet is a good technology, so is it really the case? Is there really no flaw in 3D Chiplet? This is obviously impossible. Just as the increase in CPU main frequency will often lead to an increase in power consumption, the performance improvement brought by 3D Chiplet also has to pay a lot of money.
is the increase in manufacturing costs, which was mentioned earlier, and the second is the decrease in processor life, which AMD has not mentioned at all. As we all know, CPUs are almost the longest-lived hardware in PC systems. Many CPUs from ten years ago were still running silently in some master machines, and the matching hard disks, graphics cards, and motherboards may have been replaced long ago.
However, with the promotion of 3D Chiplet technology, the long life of the CPU may become a thing of the past. Some netizens pointed out that 3D Chiplet is very similar to the L4 cache magic revision of that year, while most processors that used L4 cached were far less than those of the L3 cached version. However, some netizens believe that the 3D Chiplet series only expands the L3 cache through superposition, which is still fundamentally different from the L4 cache. In theory, the impact on the life of cache will be much smaller.
In addition, some netizens also reported that after changed from Ryzen 5800X to 5800X3D, the processor temperature rose by 5-10 degrees. In a large number of evaluations, Ryzen7 5800X3D also had serious heat accumulation problems. In the early stages of the game, the temperature difference between and Intel processors was not large and the frame rate was still ahead. However, as the game duration increased, the temperature of 5800X3D was often 10 degrees higher than Intel or even higher. In some game tests, the temperature of Ryzen7 5800X3D was once 18 degrees higher than the i7-12700K.
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In the actual test of a large number of netizens, when the cooling system performance is insufficient, the temperature of Ryzen7 5800X3D often easily approaches 90 degrees. The continuous high temperature will obviously have a direct impact on the life of the processor. Whether the heat accumulation problem can be solved will be a key node for AMD in 3D Chiplet technology, but at least from the current use, 3D Chiplet technology still has more advantages than disadvantages.
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