Ryzen 7 5800X3D may return as AMD marks 10 years of the AM4 platform
The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D debuted all the way back during CES 2022, and even till this day remains the de facto ‘end game’ processor for most PC gamers on the AM4 platform. It isn’t really available for purchase anymore though, and street prices have only gone up since then anyway.
However, it seems that AMD could be set to rerelease the legendary CPU. According to leaker HXL, he shared what appears to be an internal presentation slide in Chinese hinting at the Ryzen 7 5800X3D being relaunched sometime in Q2 this year, in conjunction with the 10-year anniversary of the AM4 platform.
AM4 was first announced back in September 2016, supporting everything from Excavator+ and the original Ryzen processors all the way to Zen 3. Incredibly, despite originally guaranteeing support till 2020 only, AMD has since continued to not only still support it but even release processors for it as late as October 2024.
It was the Ryzen 7 5800X3D though that made the AM4 platform so desirable among PC gamers as for quite some time it was the best gaming processor in the world. It has 8 Zen 3 cores boosting up to 4.5GHz, but it was its massive amount of 3D V-Cache that allowed it to deliver higher frame rates in games without unreasonable TDPs.
As for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 Anniversary Edition, if and when it does launch you can expect it to mostly be the exact same processor as the original. This could hint at a new batch of these processors coming into the market, though whether AMD managed to get TSMC to fab more of them or simply found some sitting in a warehouse remains to be seen.
We’re also not sure these would make its way here; the original leak was in Chinese, and it could be yet another one of AMD’s China-only SKUs that never make it out of the mainland.
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