AMD May Launch 7700X3D With 8 Cores, 4.5GHz Boost Clock

AMD is reportedly planning to launch a new Zen 4 CPU with eight cores and a 3D V-cache chip. The chip, rumored to be called the 7700X3D, will be a similar beast to the 7800X3D, but likely a weaker binning, as it will launch with a lower base and boost clock—though performance may not be dramatically different, per VideoCardz.

AMD has held a strong lead in gaming performance for a couple of generations now, but Intel has significantly closed that gap, especially when you factor in pricing. The latest 270K Arrow Lake refresh CPUs get very close to AMD's best gaming chips, and at a lower price, too. The 7700X3D appears to be a way to offer something comparable, but even cheaper.

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is rumored to be an eight-core, 16-thread CPU, with a base and boost clock of 4.0GHz and 4.5GHz, respectively. That's notably slower than the 7800X3D, which has eight cores that can hit 5GHz at peak performance, with a base clock of 4.2GHz. That should make this chip 5-10% slower than the 7800X3D in most gaming workloads, which would put it around the kind of performance of the 270K Plus from Intel.

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With the 7800X3D priced around $270 at the time of writing, and the 270K Plus $310, AMD will need to be quite aggressive with the pricing of this new CPU if it wants it to have an impact. Sub-$300 would be ideal, but a $300 price tag would still be competitive. It would still fall well behind the 270K in productivity workloads, and feature much weaker memory support, but who's buying high-performance memory in 2026? No one who's looking for affordable CPUs, that's for sure.

For now, however, this CPU remains very much in the rumor mill, with AMD yet to confirm anything. Still, a new X3D CPU of this type wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for AMD. It has previously released the 9850X3D and 9950X3D2 CPUs, despite them being only slightly better for gaming than their predecessors, the 9800X3D and 9950X3D. It's also launched the 5700X3D, 5600X3D, and 5500X3D—all three of which were weaker versions of the gaming classic, and the first CPU to ever sport 3D V-Cache, the 5800X3D.