AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache CPU architecture

Without the slightest fanfare, AMD has added a new "X3D" model with 3D V-Cache to its CPU lineup. Give it up, ladies and germs, for the new Ryzen 5 5500X3D (thanks to X user MEGAsizeGPU for spotting it).

It's a six-core, 12-thread chip with 96 MB of L3 cache memory, which makes it a hardware doppelgänger for the existing Ryzen 5 5600X3D, which launched back in 2023. The difference with the new chip is all about clockspeeds.

The old 5600X3D runs 3.3 GHz base and 4.4 GHz Boost clocks.