From PC World: AM4 is the processor socket that just refuses to die. With a couple of new chips debuting in June — an astonishing seven years after the original Ryzen 1000 series debuted on AM4 — it looks like AMD is releasing yet another CPU for the perennial computer platform.
New regulatory filings indicate that it’s called the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, and yes, that X3D on the end means it’s packing extra V-cache for gamers.
The filings were submitted to the Eurasian Economic Commission last week, and spotted by VideoCardz.com. We don’t have any further info beyond that for now, but less-reliable leaks from last year indicated that the 5500X3D would be a six-core/twelve-thread design with a base clock of 3GHz and boost up to 4GHz.
That’s roughly in line as a V-cache upgrade of the existing six-core Ryzen 5 5500, which debuted in 2022 with a retail price of $159. It’s now going for about half that at street price — it wasn’t particularly popular for system builders even as a budget CPU, mostly because it only supported PCIe 3.0 interface. With no integrated graphics of its own, it compared poorly to the Ryzen 5 5600G and Intel’s competition at that price point.
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