New leaks have burst the optimistic bubble around the CPU’s gaming prowess, but there’s lots to chew over with these benchmarks.

It appears that AMD is getting ready to unveil its first consumer Zen 5 processors with 3D V-cache, the timing of which nearly coincides with retail availability of Arrow Lake.

The new CPU with 3D V-cache has reportedly been tested in Far Cry 6, Black Myth: Wukong, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, plus Cinebench.

An MSI presentation says that AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D does not have substantially higher performance than the typical version.

Fresh rumors indicate that we could see the Ryzen 9800X3D revealed in just a couple of weeks, with a top-end single-core boost of 5.4GHz, even?

Somebody goofed — and now AMD’s unannounced Ryzen 9000X3D desktop processors have been partially revealed. But like Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, it doesn’t look like they’ll be a huge performance improvement on their predecessors.

Could the Ryzen 9800X3D rescue AMD’s fortunes with Zen 5 chips? It’s looking like this might well be the case.