AMD and partners confirm Ryzen CPU with dual 3D V-Cache chiplets is coming but gamers are unlikely to see the benefit
Even AMD had its doubts about the utility of such a chip.
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AMD has teased the launched of a new Ryzen processor with two chiplets, each of which will include a healthy dollop of 3D V-Cache.
As reported by ComputerBase, AMD told journalists to "stay tuned" regarding the launch of such a chip. If this wasn't convincing enough, Alienware China has announced a new Area-51 gaming PC with the new chip, which it notes as the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. Furthermore, system builder Systronix has also listed a workstation with the chip.
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Until now, only a single chiplet on a dual-chiplet processor (9900X3D and 9950X3D) has more added cache via the chip-stacking technology. Through software, AMD aims to keep game threads to a single chiplet (CCD), to reduce latency from travelling from one CCD to another via Infinity Fabric. So, a 9950X3D may have 16 cores, but games ideally only run on eight—the cores in the CCD with the 3D V-Cache.
AMD knows this better than anyone. Hence why, even as far back as this time last year, AMD said that, while it could make a chip with 3D V-Cache on both chiplets, there wouldn't be much benefit for gamers.
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"Such a processor would simply be too expensive and games would not benefit from a second CCD with 3D V-Cache to the same extent as the step from 32 to 96 MB L3 cache for one CCD," AMD said to HardwareLuxx at the time.
