How AMD Re-engineered the Ryzen 5800X3D for 2026
This week, AMD unveiled its Anniversary Edition Ryzen 7 5800X3D for socket AM4 platforms at Computex 2026. Launching just over four years after the original chip's debut, this new version reportedly required re-engineering to produce in 2026, hinting it may not work the same as the old one. Do we smell a performance improvement?
"It's not as simple as just bringing back the 5800X3D," AMD's David McAfee, VP and general manager of Radeon and Ryzen, told Tom's Hardware. "The original stacking process that was used at TSMC changed when we went from first-gen to second-gen cache, so we had to re-engineer that product, and there actually was a fair amount of development that went into bringing back the 5800X3D."
The original Ryzen 5800X3D was built on TSMC's 7nm process node—antiquated by modern standards—and used TSMC's System on Integrated Chips hybrid bonding technology. With modern X3D CPUs, AMD now uses what...
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