With the last-gen Ryzen 5 7600X now sitting at just $10 less, there’s no reason not to take advantage of this discount and buy the newer gen version of AMD’s midrange chip. As this may not be an official AMD discount, it’s unclear how long these deals will last.

AMD has dominated PC gaming CPU performance for more than two years. Its X3D chips have provided a boost that Intel has been unable to match, and its new $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to not only improve gaming performance but also day-to-day tasks and creative workloads.

After several leaks, AMD has confirmed that its new CPU with stacked cache should even beat Intel's 285K. It also has a novelty in the package.

Now, AMD introduces a newly evolved version of its 3D V-Cache technology, targeted mainly at PC gamers and showing up first in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D ($479) desktop CPU. This processor features a robust secondary on-die component with 64MB of cache,