The chipmaker says Dual 3D V-Cache AMD Ryzen gaming CPUs will be “very expensive.”

new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D It would have been possible to produce 9900X3D gaming CPUs with better specifications, but doing so would have made them very expensive. That’s according to AMD, which said at CES this week that the new Ryzen 9000X3D series only has 3D V-Cache, rather than the long-speculated dual-core configuration, to keep them cheap enough to manufacture and sell to gamers.

3D V-Cache has been built into Ryzen CPUs AMD The edge is over Intel In recent years, when it comes to gaming performance, its flagship models have regularly reached the top Best CPU for Gaming Charts. However, while it makes sense for proverbs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D To display only one 3D V-Cache module – since this chip only has one CPU die – high-end models that use two CPU dies could theoretically host two cache dies, however AMD has chosen not to implement this option.

in interview With German tech site HardwareLuxx, AMD has confirmed that there are no technical restrictions preventing the use of 3D V-Cache in Ryzen CPUs. Instead, it all comes down to cost, as it would be “simply too expensive” to produce and sell.

AMD also believes that “games will not benefit” from having 3D cache on each of the smaller chips since the potential performance boost is already provided by an additional 64MB 3D V-Cache die. There may be a benefit in some situations, but not enough that the additional cost to the manufacturer and customers is worthwhile.

According to a HardwareLuxx report, AMD has “repeatedly considered” producing Ryzen

While AMD has modified the layout of recent X3D chips to Improved thermal performanceIt appears that launching a Ryzen X3D CPU with two larger caches will not be in the cards, at least for now.

This does not mean that these CPUs are likely to perform poorly. during Advertisement 9900X3D At CES this week, AMD suggested that the new CPUs will continue to outperform Intel, with the 9950X3D set to be 20% faster than the Intel Core Ultra 285K and within 1% of the 9800X3D’s performance in gaming. We’ll have to wait until these new X3D CPUs launch, sometime in Q1 2025, before we can test this theory for ourselves.

In the meantime, check out our website AMD Ryzen 9800X3D review To see how well these X3D CPUs perform in the real world, the 9800X3D delivers the best gaming performance you can find right now.