AMD just expanded its lineup ofgaming processor , but it ’s not a Zen 5 micro chip . Instead , AMD launched a young Zen 4 CPU , the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Once again a Micro Center exclusive , the CPU could be an interesting budget offering … if not for the fact that it still costs a pretty penny . Meanwhile , theRyzen 7 7800X3Dseems to be vanish from the marketplace . What ’s go on ?

The fact that AMD revisit the Zen 4 lineup is not surprising , as it still continues to release Zen 3 chips . It ’s also not shameful that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is a Micro Center exclusive , as the Ryzen 5 5600X3D was also only available at that one retail merchant . In the case of the 7600X3D , though , it ’ll also be available in Germany throughMindfactory .

The matter that might make or break this launch is the fact that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D go far with a $ 300 price tag . That ’s a lot to spend on a six - core CPU , especially if you consider that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is not that much more expensive . Although unavailable online at Micro Center right now , the 7800X3D cost $ 400 in stores . On Amazon , you used to be able-bodied to ascertain it at $ 350 , but it ’s sell out . On Newegg , it be a staggering $ 600 .

Meanwhile , the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is a downgrade from the 7800X3D. It come with six nub , 12 threads , a maximum hike clock of 4.7GHz , and 96 MB of L3 cache , as well as a modest TDP of 65 Watt . Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D , which is thebest CPUfor gaming properly now , the 7600X3D is ever - so - slightly worse . The 7800X3D sports two more cores and boost up to 5GHz ; this comes at the toll of almost twice the TDP — 65W versus 120W.

On newspaper , it sounds like the Ryzen 5 7600X3D could be a peachy entry item to play . The extra3D V - Cacheis bound to do the Book of Job , and the X3D version sport an surplus 64 MB of L3 cache than its non - X3D opposite number . Micro Center ’s benchmarks also show that the CPU stands its earth in play , although it ’s important to hold off for third - company tests to get a better thought of how the processor performs .

In Micro Center ’s bench mark , the Ryzen 5 7600X3D fall within 2 % of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Some game showed capital wins for the 7800X3D microchip , such asTotal War : Warhammer III , where the 7800X3D outperformed the new Micro Center sole by up to 7 % . Those are n’t big gains , though , so the two CPUs await pretty similar . Note that these result were attain with the new Windows Update thatboosts the performance of many Ryzen processor by up to 10 % .

It ’s difficult not to wonder what ’s go on with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D , though . The Ryzen 5 7600X3D might be an fine replacement at a down in the mouth toll period , but six - core CPUs are n’t ideal for many . Besides , it ’s not much of a replacement if it ’s a Micro Center sole . Could the 7800X3D reappear before long , but at a higher price ? We ’ll have to wait and see .