AMD Details Massive Engineering Work Behind The Ryzen 7 5800X3D's Revival
To be frank, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is still a fantastic gaming processor to this day. You could pair a bleeding-edge GeForce RTX 5080 or Radeon RX 9070 XT with an older AM4 machine sporting a 5800X3D and lose absolutely nothing in terms of gaming experience versus a newer CPU, save for perhaps longer shader compilation times. So why did AMD ever stop production? As it happens, it was ultimately TSMC that got in the way.
See, AMD is bringing backthe Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a "10th Anniversary Edition"; that's 10th anniversary of the Socket AM4 platform, not of the 5800X3D. But of course, the question was, "if you were going to bring it back, why cancel it in the first place?" The reason, according to AMD's David McAfee (VP of Client at AMD), is because TSMC made changes to the SoIC hybrid bonding tech that the first-generation...
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