Alongside the Ryzen 7000 "X", already available, AMD is preparing the release of the "non-X" for the beginning of next year and the "X3D" just a few weeks later.
Last August, AMD put the little dishes in the big to present its new range of processors for the general public. These Ryzen 7000 were finally launched one month after this presentation, on September 27. Alas, despite their great performance, the success of this range, designed around the new Zen 4 microarchitecture, has not been complete. The problem for AMD seems to be the extra cost of the change of platform imposed by these Ryzen 7000: associated with the AM5 socket, they require the purchase of a new motherboard, which is still very expensive, and the switch to DDR5 RAM, which is also much more expensive than DDR4.
To answer this relative difficulty of launching, AMD has quickly decided to review the prices of its processors, but seems to be planning to expand its offer. So, one after the other, two new ranges of processors in Zen 4 microarchitecture have been leaked. In a very logical way, the first one is the Ryzen 7000 "non-X". The first Ryzen 7000s released by AMD were the 7600X, 7700X, 7900X and 7950X, processors whose high TDP allows them to achieve high frequencies and therefore high performance, but they are still expensive.
The "non-X" versions, on the other hand, are stuck at significantly lower TDPs. For example, while it has the same architecture as the Ryzen 9 7900X (12 cores/24 threads), the Ryzen 9 7900 has a TDP of 65 Watts (compared to 170 Watts), which means that its maximum frequency is 200 MHz lower. The same goes for the Ryzen 7 7700, which is still an 8-core/16-thread processor like the 7700X, but with a TDP of only 65 Watts when its big brother reaches 105 Watts. These processors, less powerful and less powerful, allow AMD to reduce prices and to go under the 230 dollars with the smallest of the range, the Ryzen 5 7600 which will have a very good quality/price ratio.
However, AMD does not stop there and even if it is still only rumors, everything leads us to believe that they will be confirmed quickly. Indeed, while AMD has already mentioned several times the return of the 3D Vertical Cache (3DV) technology, the company was still quite silent on this subject. 3DV allows you to stack - literally - the cache chips integrated into the processor in order to increase the amount of cache. As you can see in the table above from Videocardz, processors like the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D will have up to 192MB of L3 cache, which is more than twice the space available on the Ryzen 9 7950X and 7900X. Of course, prices will be higher, but the "X3D" range is not designed to offer the best price, but rather to display even greater performance and once again tackle the long-time competitor, Intel.
