New leaks have burst the optimistic bubble around the CPU’s gaming prowess, but there’s lots to chew over with these benchmarks.

Somebody goofed — and now AMD’s unannounced Ryzen 9000X3D desktop processors have been partially revealed. But like Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, it doesn’t look like they’ll be a huge performance improvement on their predecessors. If so, that’s a shame given how poorly received AMD’s Ryzen 9000 was, to begin with.

It appears that AMD is getting ready to unveil its first consumer Zen 5 processors with 3D V-cache, the timing of which nearly coincides with retail availability of Arrow Lake.

An MSI presentation says that AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D does not have substantially higher performance than the typical version.

The new CPU with 3D V-cache has reportedly been tested in Far Cry 6, Black Myth: Wukong, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, plus Cinebench.

AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D processors deliver a significant improvement in gaming performance compared to the existing Ryzen 7000X3D series. In benchmarks conducted using titles such as Far Cry 6, Shadow of the Tomb Raider,

Could the Ryzen 9800X3D rescue AMD’s fortunes with Zen 5 chips? It’s looking like this might well be the case.