“Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition” may help you avoid paying for a new PC

The 5800X3D was the first of AMD’s X3D releases and has the most compromises compared to standard Ryzen chips. It doesn’t support most forms of overclocking, and its base and boosted clock speeds are each a few hundred MHz lower than the regular Ryzen 5800X. If you don’t plan to pair the chip with a recent, fairly fast GPU from Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 or 50 series or AMD’s Radeon 9070

But for people with a high-end GPU who don’t want to pay today’s inflated prices for a good DDR5 memory kit, a re-release of the 5800X3D could help extend that old Socket AM4 system for a few more years.

AMD has yet to officially announce pricing or availability for this chip, but the apparent existence of retail packaging suggests its launch could be imminent. An Indian retailer has priced the chip for around $310, although we take that with a grain of salt given continued disruption from tariffs, fuel costs, chip shortages and other factors. Used versions of the 5800X3D start between $450 and $500 on eBay as of this writing, so anything lower than that would be a good deal, provided AMD can keep the chip in stock.