The AM4 socket has had a long, long career. The platform has one foot in the grave and is still being asked to do the work… Funny, it reminds us of retirement in France 🙃. Joking aside, AMD is quietly launching yet another new AM4 processor with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a small six-core processor featuring 3D V-Cache memory .
Ryzen 5 5500X3D: AMD adds entry-level 3D V-Cache… On an old CPU generation!
The chipsets of the AM5 platform are already beginning to reach the end of their life cycle, and the AM4 is still being supplied with new references. Today, this concerns the 5500X3D, an older-generation CPU onto which AMD has grafted a 3D V-Cache memory array. Broadly speaking, this addition of cache memory will support the processor’s in-game performance. This is something that the Reds successfully inaugurated with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and which has been renewed with its successors, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 9800X3D. For the time being, with this model, we’re dealing with a processor exploiting 6 cores and 12 threads of Zen 3 architecture, operating at a base frequency of 3 GHz and reaching 4 GHz in turbo frequency. In total, it has 3 MB of L2 cache supported by 96 MB of L3 cache, thanks to the addition of the small 3D V-Cache matrix. Otherwise, its default TDP is 105W, while it displays a mix of engravings. The I/O die is engraved in 12 nm by GlobalFoundries, compared with 7 nm (TSMC) for the CCDs, the dies that house the processor cores. Unfortunately, AMD’s datasheet mentions it very well, but this CPU clearly won’t be available to everyone. In fact, it’s a model that will be launched in the “LATAM” region, the countries of Latin America to put it simply. AMD is definitely launching X3D CPUs for everyone, except Europe.
