Gaming-optimized Ryzen 5 7500X3D spotted at UK retailer, new six-core budget CPU apparently readied for launch — AMD might be prepping the cheapest Zen 4-based 3D V-Cache chip to date

Earlier this week, two new processors from AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series leaked out, upgraded with the company’s special-sauce 3D V-Cache, aimed at upping game performance. The top SKU from that batch was a monstrous dual-chiplet Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 sporting 192MB of L3 cache spread across the two 8-core CCDs (one cache chiplet per CCD). If that sounded overkill to you, worry not, as AMD has you covered from the other side as well with a new, comparatively modest six-core model in the works: the Ryzen 5…