AMD’s best CPU technology for gamers is also coming to the workplace

For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache technology in its work processors with the refreshing line of Ryzen PRO 9000 chips. Until now, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips have been aimed at gamers, but they have also been successful in production tasks in recent years. In ours Ryzen 9 9950X3D review Last year, Tom Warren crowned “the best CPU for gaming and productivity,” saying that it “greatly supports the work of developers” compared to Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

According to AMD, the 3D V-Cache technology will be useful for “more and more data intensive applications such as simulation, rendering and real-time visualization.”

The expanded the Ryzen PRO 9000 seriesbuilt on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, it includes chips with 6 to 16 cores and 12 to 32 threads, as well as support for up to 256GB of EEC DDR5 memory and support for PCIe 5.0. AMD says only “select” models include 3D V-Cache. These new chips will begin to roll out in the second half of 2026, including the Lenovo ThinkStation P4, which AMD says will launch in Q3 2026.