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Unreleased AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D prototype surfaces with 128MB L3 cache

An engineering sample of AMD's never-released Ryzen 9 5900X3D has appeared on the Chiphell forums, showing 128MB of L3 cache from 64MB of 3D V-Cache stacked on one of its two core complex dies. CPU-Z data also shows a clock speed near 4.65GHz, suggesting the chip could have nearly matched the retail Ryzen 9 5900X's boost clock. AMD had teased a 12-core '3D Chiplet Prototype' at Computex 2021 claiming up to 15% faster gaming performance than the standard 5900X.

AMD's new Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 launch at retail $20 above MSRP

AMD's newly released Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 are now available on Amazon, but both are selling for $20 more than AMD's suggested prices—$120 for the 5500F and $210 for the 7500. Notably, these listings come directly from Amazon as a first-party seller, not third-party markups, despite the chips officially launching nearly two weeks ago.

AMD launches budget Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 CPUs at $99 and $189

AMD has released two new budget hexa-core processors: the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5500F priced at $99, and the Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 7500 priced at $189, both now available at U.S. retailers. The 5500F is essentially a lower-binned Ryzen 5 5600 without integrated graphics, offering a 500MHz lower boost clock and half the L3 cache, while still supporting PCIe 4.0.