Intel has therumored Core i9-12900KSand AMD has theRyzen 7 5800X3D it previewed at CES 2022.
AMD attributes the improvement to its new 3D-stacked L3 cache using its 3D V-Cache technology.
The 3D version has three times the L3 cache of the non 3D version, 96MB compared to 32MB.
Otherwise, the specs are identical.
A new BIOS update for some X370, B350 and A320-based motherboards will let you do so.
It’s slated to become available in April.