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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 74463, member: 636"] AMD basically leaked its own hardware by shoving a Ryzen 7 9850X3D into driver support pages without saying anything official. The chip showed up next to other Zen 5 desktop parts with 3D V-Cache, but there is zero spec sheet or press release backing it up. Data miners caught the listing the same way they spotted the Ryzen 5 9600X3D before launch. Rumors point to 8 cores with 96 MB of L3 cache and a boost clock around 5.6 GHz versus the 9800X3D hitting 5.2 GHz. That bump could help competitive gaming at high refresh rates, but cramming more speed into the same 120W envelope might cost efficiency. The 9800X3D dropped at roughly $512, which gives a baseline for where this new part might land if it actually ships. The catch is that driver pages do not guarantee retail availability because AMD might reserve the chip for OEM builds or cancel it entirely before launch. [/QUOTE]