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Jake Roach

AMD is considering a potential Ryzen 5 9600X3D — company says six-core Zen 5 X3D chip 'maybe something we look at doing... later this year'

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D.

AMD just launched the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, which is a strange entry in AMD’s AM5 lineup given that it’s built on the Zen 4 architecture rather than Zen 5. We asked AMD’s David McAfee, VP and general manager of Ryzen and Radeon, at Computex 2026, why the company went with Zen 4 over a six-core Zen 5 part. After all, we’ve seen the six-core Ryzen 5 7600X3D but not a Zen 5 replacement. McAfee told us that “may be something that we look at doing… later this year.”

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