The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap

AMD 3D V-Cache stacked chips up close render.

With just over a week left to go before Intel's Core Ultra 200S series of processors hits desktop PCs around the world, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this will be all the big news on the CPU front until CES 2025. Rumour has it, though, that AMD is planning to gatecrash the Arrow Lake bunfight by launching the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the first 3D V-Cache equipped Zen 5 chip, to make PC gamers everywhere go wholesale Team Red.

I say rumour but what I really mean is one post on Chiphell's forums (via X user Harukaze5719). Normally I'd completely ignore such ramblings but it's not the first time I've heard such a claim being made, even though AMD is being incredibly tight-lipped about it all.