ASUS board manual may indicate 3D V-Cache on Threadripper processors

The next generation of AMD Threadripper processors may offer at least one SKU with 3D V-Cache, if the rumor is correct. The information appeared in the manual for an ASUS WRX90 motherboard, which explains settings to enable or disable “X3D technology” on these CPU models.

The capture below was taken from the ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE manual, a mobo specifically aimed at Threadripper processors. The text explains that the user has configuration options to turn 3D V-Cache on or off on one, two or four stacks.

What draws attention is that no current model in the Threadripper 7000 line has the feature. In other words, it is speculated that the configuration will be aimed at the next generation of products, the 9000 series.

X3D technology, the commercial name that AMD gives to 3D V-Cache, is well known in domestic models of Ryzen processors – and has even just made its debut in the current generation of CPUs, based on Zen 5. The feature also appears in some Epyc models, codenamed Genoa, but the WRX90 is not compatible with them. Therefore, it is imagined that the next Threadripper could come with the technology.

Rumors about Threadripper are still few

Compared to the number of leaks and rumors we had about the Ryzen 7 9800X3D until its official launch, we can say that we didn’t have many about the next Threadripper. Therefore, as always, it is good to maintain a certain skepticism regarding the first leaks on the subject.

This passage in the ASUS manual is not enough to confirm that the Threadripper 9000 – or at least one of them – will use 3D V-Cache. In any case, if the information really is true, it will be interesting to see how AMD promotes the feature in this line of CPUs.

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To date, the manufacturer largely associates its X3D technology with performance gains in games, but this area is not the focus of its Threadripper line, more used in HPC and workstations.

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