Ahead of the 10th anniversary of AMD’s socket AM4 this September, the brand may be set to release a special anniversary edition of its most beloved AM4 CPU: The Ryzen 5800X3D. Rumors suggest AMD has made a special edition of the chip with anniversary branding and may have even restarted production of this classic chip, VideoCardz reports. Could this icon of its era help save us from AI-induced shortages in 2026, too?
AMD launched its AM4 socket in September 2016 with the first generation of Ryzen processors. Although not super competitive with Intel’s best in their own right, they gave AMD an enormous springboard for future performance enhancements, which finally saw it take several performance crowns in subsequent generations. Today AMD is the king of gaming, with its X3D CPUs leading the charge. Despite many successors, though, the most iconic of that line is still the venerable 5800X3D.
With eight Zen 3 cores, a 4.5GHz boost clock, 100MB of cache, and a 105W TDP, the 5800X3D is a little pedestrian by modern standards, but it still holds its own in gaming thanks to all that extra cache. It’s still the fastest AM4 CPU you can buy, if you can buy it. But that might be a lot easier later this year if the anniversary edition does debut as these leakers claim.
The sad news is that there may not be anything new to enjoy here. It’ll just be a 5800X3D with anniversary edition branding, according to leaker HXL/9950Pro on X.
Still, what makes this doubly interesting is that the 5800X3D hasn’t been in production for quite some time. Did AMD manage to scrounge some supply of the old chip to turn into this special edition version, or has it restarted production? If so, will it keep it going? Could prices for this new chip be low enough to make it an attractive option for gamers who can’t afford newer DDR5-based PCs with Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs?
We’ll have to wait and see, but as we edge closer to September, keep your eyes peeled for any more AMD hints of what might be to come.
