CPU and motherboard makers like to transition off of old technology as soon as possible, generally speaking. But thanks to the severe shortage of DDR5 memory, AMD has introduced new CPUs that rely on older DDR4 memory.
Memory makers right now are in a transitionary period from DDR4 to DDR5, so shortages were inevitable anyway. Add to it the explosive growth in AI data centers — and AI is particularly memory intensive — causing a massive shortage. If you can get DDR5 memory for a consumer PC, it will be one of the most expensive components in the computer.
So, with DDR4 more widely available and cheaper, AMD is continuing to support its older platform with newer, top of the line chips. At Computex 2026, AMD announced the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition processor and the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D processor for the Socket AM5 platform.
The new processors target gamers, who are obsessed with performance, giving them high end CPU performance while still supporting the much more affordable and available DDR4 memory.
PC gamers now have more ways to build around AMD technologies, whether they are extending the life of an existing system, widening their gaming options on AM5 or pairing a new processor with Radeon graphics for high-performance 1440p gaming.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition comes with eight Zen 3 cores and 16 threads, with a maximum clock boost of 4.5 GHz, and a TDP of 105W TDP. It also uses AMD’s 3D V-Cache design, where the SRAM is stacked on top of the cores rather than spread out in a 2D layout, thus reducing cache memory latency.
The 5800X3D is available June 25 at a recommended retail price of $349, while the eight-core Ryzen 7 7700X3D will launch on July 16 at $329.
Originally published by Techstrong.IT. Republished with attribution.
