(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) AMD just launched the Ryzen 7 7700X3D , which is a strange entry in AMD’s AM5 lineup given that it’s built on the Zen 4 architecture rather than Zen 5. We asked AMD’s David McAfee, VP and general manager of Ryzen and Radeon , at Computex 2026, why the company went with Zen 4 over a six-core Zen 5 part. After all, we’ve seen the six-core Ryzen 5 7600X3D but not a Zen 5 replacement. McAfee told us that “may be something that we look at doing… later this year.” Go deeper with TH Premium: CPU “I think as we go through the rest of this year, I mean we're always looking for ways to, you know, create as many options as we can, and that may become… maybe something that we look at doing as a runway product later this year, simply because you know we know the pressures that are there in building systems aren't going away anytime soon,” McAfee told Tom’s Hardware.…