New leaks have burst the optimistic bubble around the CPU’s gaming prowess, but there’s lots to chew over with these benchmarks.

It appears that AMD is getting ready to unveil its first consumer Zen 5 processors with 3D V-cache, the timing of which nearly coincides with retail availability of Arrow Lake.

The new CPU with 3D V-cache has reportedly been tested in Far Cry 6, Black Myth: Wukong, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, plus Cinebench.

Fresh rumors indicate that we could see the Ryzen 9800X3D revealed in just a couple of weeks, with a top-end single-core boost of 5.4GHz, even?

Two new leaks from posts at Bilibili and Chiphell (as found by @9950pro) reveal possible specifications of AMD's forthcoming eight-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with 3D V-Cache as well as its launch timeframe.

Even though AMD just launched its regular Zen 5 CPUs in August, their lukewarm reception and the imminent arrival of competing chips from Intel could spur AMD to release the X3D V-Cache versions ahead of schedule.

Leaked benchmark for Cinebench shows big single-core, and even bigger multi-core, gains for the Ryzen 9800X3D and also the 9950X3D processor.

A mountain of evidence is mounting that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D could show up any day now, but it might not be the CPU gamers were hoping for.

It’s no wonder that many gamers are anticipating the 9000X3D lineup, especially because the non-3D Zen 5 failed to move the needle in gaming scenarios. However, according to a new leak from a surprising source,