AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D processors will hit the market sometime in February, and we know they’ll follow the same guidelines we saw with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a processor that has a block 64 MB 3D stacked L3 cache directly above the CCD unit, which contains an 8-core, 16-thread CPU and boasts its own 32MB L3 cache.

With the Ryzen 7000X3D in AMD they will again integrate 64 MB of L3 cache stacked in 3D, but this time the company will not limit itself to the launch of a single processor, but rather will launch three different models:

• Ryzen 9 7950X3D: with 16 cores and 32 threads, 120 watt TDP and 144 MB L2 + L3 cache (64 MB 3D stacked L3).
• Ryzen 9 7900X3D: with 12 cores and 24 threads, 120 watt TDP and 140 MB L2 + L3 cache (64 MB 3D stacked L3).
• Ryzen 7 7800X3D: with 8 cores and 16 threads, 120 watt TDP and 104 MB L2 + L3 cache (64 MB 3D stacked L3).

Another of the most important news that we could confirm thanks to AMD’s official website is that the Ryzen 7000X3D they will be unlocked and support overclockingsomething that was not possible with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

It’s important to note that AMD hasn’t provided any further details, so it’s impossible to predict the actual level of boost we’ll be able to achieve by overclocking the Ryzen 7000X3D. Ryzen 7000 on the other hand they already came with the frequencies very quickly from homeand thanks to turbo mode they reached such a high level that overclocking did not significantly improve performance and actually managed to reduce it in scenarios where only one or two threads of execution were activated.

Considering that the Ryzen 7000 also reached very high temperatures, 95 degrees with a 360mm AIO liquid cooling, it is clear that overclocking loses a lot of meaning. However, maybe in Ryzen 7000X3D turbo mode scale in a less aggressive manner, and that in this case it is worth increasing the working frequency. We’ll have to wait to see how these new processors hold up before we can draw any conclusions.

Retail prices for the Ryzen 7000X3D have yet to be confirmed, but they will most likely end up costing $100-150 more than models without 3D stacked cache. If confirmed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D would cost between $799 and $849, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D would cost between $649 and $699, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D would cost between $499 and $549.