AMD’s 7800X3D and 7950X3D hold the top spot in CPUs for gaming, not because they have the most cores or the highest clock speeds, but because they have the most cache. But what is CPU cache, anyway?

AMD launched the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2022, bringing the world’s first processor with 3D V-Cache to market. It remains one of the best gaming CPUs available in 2023, offering credible competition to AMD ...

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TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Zen 6 gaming processor may feature up to 240MB of stacked L3 V-Cache and reach 7.0GHz clock speeds, delivering 6-8% higher FP IPC than Zen 5. This flagship 12-core, 24-thread CPU ...

It's been nigh on nine months since Jeff Kampman from Intel's Graphics Technical Marketing team raised the question: does AMD's 3D V-Cache actually help that much if you're not running a top-end ...