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AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day

Despite being on the market for four years, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D remains one of the best CPUs for gaming on the AM4 platform. A Ryzen 9 5900X3D, if AMD had released it, would surely have given it a run for its money. Now, years later, an engineering sample of the Ryzen 9 5900X3D has emerged on the Chinese Chiphell forums, giving us a taste of what could have been an awesome 12-core chip for gaming and productivity.

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What is really funny about the Ryzen 9 5900X3D is that we all knew it existed because AMD teased it at Computex 2021. …

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