There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month

Despite having launched a whole new generation of Zen 5 processors, AMD is reportedly releasing some fratricidal new Zen 4 CPUs in the shape of an as-yet unannounced Ryzen 5 7600X3D chip.

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Upcoming chips seem to be stacking up, with Intel's Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200-series just around the corner and AMD Ryzen 9000X3D chips appearing to approach launch, too. After Intel 13th/14th Gen CPU crashes plus a somewhat underwhelming AMD Zen 5 architecture Ryzen 9000-series launch, all this anticipation is better news for the chip market.

Now we're hearing that another AMD Ryzen 7000-series X3D chip might soon hit the market, too. Tech leaker Hoang Anh Phu (via Videocardz) hints at an early September release for an unannounced AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D. 

This would coincide with rumours that highly anticipated AMD Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs might launch soon and it would come in before a rumoured October 10th Intel Arrow Lake launch.

What could we expect from such a chip? Well, if the (limited edition) AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D was anything to go by, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D could repurpose a higher-end X3D chip by disabling some cores or even a whole CCD rather than using a 7600X chip with some 3D V-Cache slapped on top. The 7600X that a 7600X3D would probably mimic on the specs front is a 6-core, 12-thread chip with a 5.3 GHz boost clock.

Whatever the case, for gaming, fewer cores and heaps of extra cache sounds like a good trade-off, provided the price is right. Given the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is currently going for about $367 on Amazon, and given that it's previously been on sale for cheaper than this, a 7600X3D would probably be cheap enough to more than justify it as a great budget purchase.

If an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D does launch, this could be a sign that AMD will give the AM5 socket the same loving treatment it's given AM4, re-purposing chips and CCDs into packages for different budgets. For example, in January AMD announced the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, Ryzen 7