AMD’S SECRET weapon for the Zen 3 range was its V-cache version, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It stacked high-speed memory on top of eight cores and tripled the L3 cache, making for the world’s fastest gaming chip on launch. Although Intel responded with the Core i9-12900KS to steal some of that thunder, Intel’s chip was faster in some games, albeit more expensive. AMD had no trouble selling its V-cache chips, and even now they’re still hard to find. The same V-cache editions will be released for the Zen 4 Ryzens and should be due in the first half of 2023.