AMD’s second-gen 3D cache technology has moved the memory chips beneath the cores for better cooling.
THIS IS THE ONE
we’ve been waiting for: the first true gaming chip of AMD’s new Zen 5 processor range. The signature 3D V-Cache feature, a tacked-on extra layer of L3 cache essentially designed to improve gaming performance, is now in its second generation.
That brings a new design of the 3D cache structure that sidesteps most of the compromising aspects of adding another slice of silicon into the now-traditional chiplet design. In fact, AMD has done such a good job, it may turn out that when the higher core count X3D variants arrive, they might be better still. For gaming, that certainly wasn’t true last time around.