AMD has brought back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D specifically to cater to a DIY market where there is still a ton of AM4 motherboards and DDR4-supporting machines in the market. "We see a lot of users still gaming on like Ryzen 5 2600X or 3700X," says David McAfee, VP of Ryzen and Radeon at AMD, "where as a drop in replacement to an existing motherboard and build, they're going to see just a massive, massive jump in gaming performance."
We're sat on the 26th floor of a hotel that overlooks the Nangang Exhibition Centre, where the Computex show is still thrumming away below us, and McAfee has just explained that it wasn't simply a case of bringing the old manufacturing process out of retirement and spinning up the machines again.
The original way it had stacked the 3D V-Cache on top of the Ryzen 5000-series CPU die was no longer in use at TSMC. "We had to kind of re-engineer, re-qualify, and rebuild that product in a way," says McAfee, "so that it could migrate from that old process th...
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