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The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is supposedly one of the best gaming processors on the market,

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but is that 3D on the end just a marketing gimmick to remind you of the superior way of

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watching movies? Or is there actual truth to it? That was a joke, 3D movies suck.

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But this 3D does not. The 3D actually refers to a feature that AMD calls 3DVcash, with V standing

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for vertical, and 3D implying that the cash actually is stacked on the CPU die to make it, you know,

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three-dimensional. So it's not false advertising, even if technically you could label every processor

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3D since our universe does in fact have three dimensions, but let's not get pedantic.

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Okay, so 3DVcash is CPUcash stacked vertically. But what is CPUcash? Well, it's basically just

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a small amount of very fast memory, like way faster than your system RAM, that sits on the

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CPU itself. Modern CPUs move information that is likely to be needed soon into the cash,

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so by the time they actually need that information, it's sitting right there for them to go ahead

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and act upon instead of having to wait for it to arrive from system RAM. So it's not hard to figure

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out that having more cash equals better, but slapping more onto a chip is actually fairly

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difficult. As transistor sizes have gotten smaller, manufacturing has gotten more difficult

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and more expensive. It's actually not uncommon for cash to use an older process node than the

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CPU cores do. So instead of trying to shrink the cash transistors down to cram more of them onto the

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CPU die, AMD decided to just build up instead and stack several layers of cash on top of each other,

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hence the name 3DVcash. But how much does having a cash sandwich in your PC actually make a difference

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in the programs you use the most? AMD markets the 5800X3D, the only consumer chip featuring 3DVcash

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at the time we wrote this video, as a gaming powerhouse. And it does turn out that having

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additional CPUcash makes a significant difference in gaming performance. Having more cash space

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means that the graphics card doesn't have to wait around as long for data from the CPU.

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Without that additional cash, your CPU needs to go back and grab data from your RAM more often,

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which takes time and leaves your CPU frustrated and exhausted, wondering why its creators didn't

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give it more cash when they dumped it into this cruel world. Indeed, benchmarks have consistently

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shown performance benefits across the board compared to both AMD and Intel chips that don't

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utilize vertical cash. And it's not surprising considering just how much more you can add

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by building vertically instead of horizontally. While the original 5800X contained 32 megabytes

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of level 3 cash, the 5800X3D increases that number to a whopping 96 megabytes. Wowie, zowie.

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Of course, this kind of cash design comes with its own costs. And we're not talking about the

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premium you pay for the CPU either. Vertical cash does require extra power and it generates more

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heat. And although AMD has done a pretty good job mitigating these issues, partly by packing

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the cash layers as close together as possible, the 5800X3D does not officially support multiplier

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overclocking as the cash and the CPU cores actually share voltage. So you can't change one

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without affecting the other. This also means boost clocks are lower than chips with more

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traditional cash. So while gaming performance is often better depending on exactly which game it

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is you're playing, other chips with more cores and higher clock speeds are still superior for

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other tasks. But if you do mostly use your PC for gaming, there's exciting news in that more

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chips using 3D Vcash are on their way as additions to the Ryzen 7000 series. And over in serverland,

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there are AMD Epic chips featuring the technology since server CPUs have to move

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so much data that a bigger cash can be beneficial. However, it's yet to be seen whether Intel answers

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with a similar strategy. Right now, Team Blue seems to be sticking to consistently high boost

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clocks instead. But you have to admit, there's something elegant about stacking chips like

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a can of Pringles. Truly a snack for the elite. They're not sponsoring us, why am I? And even

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