AMD’s best CPU technologies for gamers are coming to workstations, too

For the first time, AMD Including 3D V-Cache technology In its commercial workstation processors with an updated line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Until now, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips have been primarily geared toward gamers, but they have also improved for creative tasks over recent years. In our Ryzen 9 9950X3D review Last year, Tom Warren crowned it “the best CPU for both gaming and creator tasks,” noting that it “dramatically improves creator workloads” over Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

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

the Expanded Ryzen PRO 9000 Seriesbuilt on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, includes chips with 6 to 16 cores and 12 to 32 threads, along with support for up to 256GB of EEC DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 support. AMD says that only “select” models include 3D V-Cache. The new chips will start rolling out in the second half of 2026, including the Lenovo ThinkStation P4, which AMD says will launch in the third quarter of 2026.