Micro Center has
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4GHz Desktop Processor (100-100000651PO) on sale for
$299.99. Select free store pickup only where stock permits.
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AMD finally reintroduced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D at Computex 2026, more than four years after it originally launched in a bid to combat rising DDR5 prices. Despite the re-release looking like a simple product spin-up, AMD's David McAfee, VP and general manager of Radeon and Ryzen, says that "a whole body of engineering work" went into the re-release, as the original bonding process TSMC used for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was no longer available.
"It's not as simple as just bringing back the 5800X3D," McAfee said. "The original stacking process that was used at TSMC changed when we went from first-gen to second-gen cache, so we had to re-engineer that product, and there actually was a fair amount of development that went into bringing back the 5800X3D."
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D used TSMC's SoIC or System-on-Integrated-Chips hybrid bonding technology. It uses a combination of "hot" and "cold" bonding to marry two pieces of silicon together, which then share power with through-silicon vias (TSV). Fundamentally, this connection hasn't changed over the course of 3D V-Cache's existence, but it has evolved. With the move to Ryzen 7000, AMD had to make some changes to the 3D V-Cache design, which it then carried forward with Ryzen 9000.
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also they are a business. Their goal isn't to break even so it doesn't matter if it "already paid for itself"
This chip has already paid for itself; its engineering and development.
With the AI gpu and memory crunch they could have really gained a lot of goodwill in the PC gamers community if they had listed it at $199. People would be ecstatic to update at $150 their AM4 with 32GB ram to avoid the new PC AI premium gouge.
No R&D or marketing necessary for the 5800x3d, but AMD chose to go for the jugular. Fart the goodwill.
look at it this way: tuck that 300 dollars away toward your next build am5 build.
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Let the pricing wars begin
Let the pricing wars begin
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It hink that's why 5800X3D is still so expensive
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This chip has already paid for itself; its engineering and development.
With the AI gpu and memory crunch they could have really gained a lot of goodwill in the PC gamers community if they had listed it at $199. People would be ecstatic to update at $150 their AM4 with 32GB ram to avoid the new PC AI premium gouge.
No R&D or marketing necessary for the 5800x3d, but AMD chose to go for the jugular. Fart the goodwill.
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