A new rumor suggests that AMD is readying a new flagship Ryzen 9000X3D series processor to provide the best of both worlds for gaming and productivity. While rumors regarding Gorgon and Medusa Point, AMD’s forthcoming mobile and desktop processors that could see individual CCDs with more than 8-cores/16-threads, which are thought to be announced either this fall or winter, continue to occasionally pop up, things have been relatively quiet at the top of the Ryzen 9000X3D product stack following the releases of its Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 9 9900x3D/9950X3D CPUs. Both parts have established themselves as the current must-have CPUs (depending on budget) for gaming, but the 9950X3D provides significant additional productivity options over the 9800X3D with its extra CCD.
While the Ryzen 9000X3D series very notably flipped its design from previous generations, thus allowing higher clock speeds and cooler temps, other specs largely remained the same. For instance, the 9800X3D was still an 8-core/16-thread CPU with 96 MB of L3 Cache. The 9950X3D, while at one point rumored to feature 2x 8-core/16-thread CCDs with 3D V-Cache, ended up launching with only one CCD with access to the 3d cache while bumping that up to 128 MB. Now, according to a hardware info leaker, chi11edog (via VideoCardz), who is known to have ties to board manufacturers, a new king of the hill is on the way.
New Granite Ridge CPU on the way.
— chi11eddog (@g01d3nm4ng0) August 4, 2025
8C/16T/120W/96MB L3 Cache.
16C/32T/200W/192MB L3 Cache. 192MB…🧐🧐🧐
So, if accurate, we could be seeing a new Zen 5 “Granite Ridge” AM5 part featuring 16-cores/32-threads but also with a whopping 192 MB of L3 Cache and 200W TDP. It’s already being speculated that this could be 2x 8-core/16-thread CCDs, with similar specs to the 9800X3D, and each having 96 MB of L3 cache. The rumor also indicates that perhaps another 8-core/16-thread part is on the way, which might be an alternate SKU of the 9800X3D. Clock speeds would play a major role in performance uptick for either of these processors, but if AMD has managed to refine its manufacturing process or utilize better binned parts, each could take the top spots for most sought-after CPUs come the holidays or the new year.