The Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D are now available in the mainstream consumer market. However, both are compatible with the AM5 socket we need to update the BIOS to use them our motherboard, otherwise they won’t work. If you have a GIGABYTE motherboard, this won’t be a problem as the company has confirmed that it has already released a BIOS update for its AM5 motherboards that adds support for these new processors.

BIOS update it is already available on the support and download pages each of GIGABYTE motherboards with the X670 and B650 chipset. To install it, just go to the page that corresponds to our motherboard, enter the support and downloads section, select the BIOS option and download the latest. The BIOS update process is very simple and completely safe, so you can rest easy.

Once we have the updated BIOS, we can plug in any of the Ryzen 7000X3D processors that AMD has released. If you’re worried about getting a new motherboard to fit this generation processor and it won’t update to the latest BIOS, don’t worry, GIGABYTE motherboards offer this feature Q-Flash Plus, which allows you to update your motherboard’s BIOS without having a compatible processor installed. If in doubt, check this out.

If you already have a Ryzen 7000 installed and you want to make the jump to the new AMD models because you want to have the latest, it’s even easier because you just need to download the latest BIOS, save it to an external USB drive and proceed to the installation.traditional installation. Once you install it you can turn off the computer and replace the processor no longer.

Ryzen 7000X3D processors use a 3D stacked L3 cache on top of the chiplet, so this chiplet it happens to contain a total of 96MB of L3 cache (32 MB from the chiplet and another 64 MB from the composite block). This extra cache can improve gaming performance and allows you to design processors with lower power consumption and cooler temperatures.

If you need more information, check out GIGABYTE Official Site.