It’s been a few days since AMD’s Ryzen 9000 announcement, and sales haven’t even started yet. However, Ryzen 9000X3D processors, powered by 3D V-Cache cache technology, have already started to come to the fore.
Regular leaker @harukaze5719 has discovered a new 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer driver. AMD last updated this driver when the Ryzen 7000X3D chips were released. The update discovered now directly brought the 9000X3D series to mind. There is not much information about the functionality of 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer. The Ryzen 7000X3D-powered version is speculated to optimize workloads to accommodate L3 cache-sensitive games and applications on the Ryzen 9 7900X3D or 7950X3D’s cache-equipped CCD.
The driver was first introduced as a Windows 10-specific driver for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Additionally, it is also available on AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D chips and runs on Windows 11 with 7000X3D SKUs. The update to the 3D V-Cache driver may be a precursor to Ryzen 9000X3D, which is expected to be released in the near future. AMD has already confirmed that Ryzen 9000 processors with 3D V-Cache support are on the way and that the cache technology brings some “great” innovations.
We said that regular Ryzen 9000 series processors offer a 16% IPC improvement compared to Ryzen 7000. However, the company acknowledged that the new Zen 5 desktop chips will not outperform older Ryzen 7000X3D processors in games, despite having an architectural advantage.
We don’t yet know any of the changes made to the renewed caching technology. However, AMD will improve the cache performance of the Ryzen 9000X3D as well as the Zen 5 architecture, and we expect them to provide significant performance gains compared to the Ryzen 7000X3D. We can see that the L3 cache capacity has increased with the new series. On the other hand, bandwidth can be increased, latencies can be reduced, and even an L2 cache can be built into it.
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