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Inside AMD's Unreleased Zen 3 Gaming Prototype
AMD's canceled 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X3D prototype featured 128MB of L3 cache and a 4.7 GHz boost clock, revealing early experiments with 3D V-Cache technology.
October 3, 2026, 01:30 PM·Tom

AMD's canceled 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X3D prototype featured 128MB of L3 cache and a 4.7 GHz boost clock, revealing early experiments with 3D V-Cache technology.

An engineering sample of the unreleased 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X3D with 128 MB of L3 cache has been identified in China.
