A mountain of evidence is mounting that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D could show up any day now, but it might not be the CPU gamers were hoping for.

Even though AMD just launched its regular Zen 5 CPUs in August, their lukewarm reception and the imminent arrival of competing chips from Intel could spur AMD to release the X3D V-Cache versions ahead of schedule.

It’s no wonder that many gamers are anticipating the 9000X3D lineup, especially because the non-3D Zen 5 failed to move the needle in gaming scenarios. However, according to a new leak from a surprising source,

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