AMD extends Socket AM5 support through at least 2029; AM4 refuses to die

One of the benefits of building an AMD PC is that AMD has been supporting its cores for longer than Intel has, allowing the same motherboard (and RAM kit, if you want) to power your PC through multiple CPU upgrades. Today at Computex, AMD he announced The current AM5 socket chips and the still around AM4 socket will help extend their lives a little more, acknowledging how expensive it is to build a new PC or upgrade these days.

The first of these announcements is ours he already knows: re-establishment of Ryzen 7 5800X3D for 2022the first of AMD’s 3D V-Cache processors to be commercially available. Dubbed the “10th Anniversary Edition” in reference to the long-running Socket AM4, the re-released chip is slightly slower than the usual 8-core Ryzen 5000-series CPUs for multi-tasking tasks, but it comes with 64MB of additional L3 cache that benefits gaming. If you’re trying to use a high-end GPU with an AM4 board, it might help to keep your CPU from becoming a performance bottleneck. The 5800X3D (re-) will be released on June 25 at a price of $349, which is less than what is currently on sale.

As for the latest AM5 socket, AMD announced that it will support it until 2029 – it is already planned to be there. until 2025then until “2027+,” so that means between two and four years of additional support, depending on how you count.