The consumer CPU market has witnessed the sheer power of what 3D V-Cache can do to Ryzen processors when it comes to gaming, and Team Red has since implemented the same feature to its datacenter-focused EPYC processors. Despite that, Threadripper CPUs has not seen any cache-laden versions available so far, but that will soon change.
3D V-Cache Coming To Threadripper & Laptops?
Videocardz recently was tipped of a discovery in the user manual pertaining to ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard, which mentioned a BIOS option that performs an “override of X3D technology”. As we know, Threadripper 7000 series has no 3D V-Cache variants available thus far, so this setting highly suggest that X3D variants, be it in 7000 or the 9000 series (codenamed Shimada Peak), will be introduced later to the TRX50/WRX90 platforms.
As a matter of fact, Chiphell leaker ‘zhangzhonghao’ has just confirmed such assumptions:
Seeing the news of the ASUS TRX motherboard’s BIOS manual, I went and asked the suppliers – it’s actually going to be launched
Besides that, starting on next generation APUs will stack 3D V-Cache (to enhance the CPU and GPU), the technology and cost is already in place, though current information says this may be limited to laptops only, particularly the ‘halo’ ones.
Yep, it’s not just the Threadripper that’ll be getting the 3D V-Cache treatment, either. On the laptop side, the leaker claims that next generation – presumably Zen 6 – will integrate 3D V-Cache into the lineup, but this may be limited to ultra-premium laptops that runs on Ryzen AI Max series chips (it’s possible that the ‘halo’ mentioned here is in reference to Strix Halo, the codename for Zen 5’s Ryzen AI Max series).
It’s worth noting that this won’t be the first time 3D V-Cache has found its way into laptops. That accolade goes to the ultra-rare Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, which is only available to just one ASUS ROG Strix laptop and another flagship MSI laptop from what we can gather thus far. With the second-generation 3D V-Cache soon to be available, this may just be the technology AMD is looking for to widely introduce this technology to a bigger batch of laptops.
Pokdepinion: Bring on the cache! It is truly a gamechanger in the recent years of CPU development.
