Earlier this week, two new processors from AMD's Ryzen 9000 series leaked out, upgraded with the company's special-sauce 3D V-Cache, aimed at upping game performance. The top SKU from that batch was a monstrous dual-chiplet Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 sporting 192MB of L3 cache spread across the two 8-core CCDs (one cache chiplet per CCD). If that sounded overkill to you, worry not, as AMD has you covered from the other side as well with a new, comparatively modest six-core model in the works: the Ryzen 5 7500X3D.
First spotted by prominent tipster @momomo_us, the 7500X3D was found listed at retailer Westcoast UK with an OPN code that doesn't match any existing SKUs, all but confirming that this wasn't a typo; rather, a potentially new CPU set to launch soon. As the name suggests, the 7500X3D is likely just a Ryzen 5 7500 — which itself debuted much after Ryzen 7000's initial release — with 3D V-Cache stacked on top. We don't know the exact specs, but wold not be surprised if the new X3D part were a 65W chip using six Zen 4 cores, just like the regular 7500, with max clock speeds lower than 4.7 GHz.
