While more of anything is generally a good thing when it comes to gaming performance, an analysis from Techspot found that more 元 cache can often be more beneficial, provided the game isn’t completely GPU-bound. 元 cache can be vastly useful for gaming, often more so than having more cores or threads. If you’re using a 5900X or 5950X in your gaming PC, those CPUs have two seperate CCDs, giving them a total of 64MB 元 cache. If you were to take apart a Ryzen 5000-series CPU today, you’d see a core complex (CCD) underneath.Įach CCD can attach to 32MB of 元 cache. To understand the benefits of V-Cache, we need to look at how the current Ryzen Zen 3 CPUs actually work. But what exactly is 3D V-Cache? AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su announcing the new technology that will feature in the Zen 3 refresh at Computex 2021. Interestingly, the refreshed 5800X3D could only achieve parity with the 12900K in Gears 5, and Intel’s CPU was 2 percent faster in CS:GO. Image: AMD (YouTube)Ĭompared to the i9-12900K, AMD showed slides claiming the 5800X3D was 17 percent faster than Intel’s fastest Alder Lake CPU in Final Fantasy XIV and 8 percent faster in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The average performance improvement for the X3D chips across a range of games was 15 percent, although some titles - such as Watch Dogs: Legion and Far Cry 6, saw gains of 36 percent and 24 percent, compared to a regular Ryzen 5900X. In the presentation, AMD showcased a demo presentation where a current generation 5900X ran a Gears of War 5 benchmark against a prototype 5900X built with the new 3D V-Cache technology.Īt CES 2022, AMD announced the official naming conventions for the new chips: X3D. The new 3D V-Cache technology was announced by AMD’s CEO, Dr Lisa Su, at Computex 2021.
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( A footnote in AMD’s presentation added that, on average, the refreshed Zen 3 CPU was 15 percent faster across 32 separate PC games, although some titles like League of Legends only saw fractional gains in performance.) Other games benefited from the technology as well, according to AMD’s presentation, with Monster Hunter World seeing a 25 percent improvement from the new design.
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Without any other change in design, the updated 5900X ran Gears 5 12 percent faster at 1080p - despite no other adjustment in power usage and a fixed frequency between both CPUs. AMD’s Zen 3 5800X3D CPU: Expected performance Image: AMD (YouTube) This post has been updated since its original publication. The chip manufacturer has announced that their existing CPUs will be modernised with a new 3D V-Cache stacking technology, which could make a massive difference for gamers. AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs were groundbreaking when they were released, but it’s time for an upgrade.