With all the talk about upcoming Intel Arrow Lake CPUs lately, I'd kind of forgotten about 9000-series X3D chips. But while next-gen Intel could be exciting, Zen 5 X3D processors are arguably the ones we PC gamers should have our eyes set on. Given the performance of previous generations of AMD's 3D V-Cache chips, there's a pretty good chance of them being some of the best CPUs for gaming.
If the latest rumour's anything to go by, we might not have very long to wait. A leaker on Chinese forum Chiphell called zhangzhonghao (via Tom's Hardware) claims the AMD Ryzen 7 "9800X3D should be released at the end of October".
