AMD made an important update to its desktop platform roadmap as part of Computex 2026. The company announced that support for the Socket AM5 platform will continue until 2029. Thus, the AM5 era, which started with the Ryzen 7000 series, will continue to offer long-term upgrade opportunities for new generation processors. AM5 support has been extended to 2029. AMD announced in its Computex 2026 statement that it has extended the support period for the Socket AM5 platform until 2029.
The AM5 platform came into use during the Zen 4 architecture period along with Ryzen 7000 series processors. With the company’s new statement, the processor upgrade schedule for systems using AM5 motherboards has been extended to a longer period. AMD positioned this decision as a continuation of the long-lasting socket strategy it followed on the AM4 platform. The AM4 platform has hosted multiple Zen architecture generations over a period of approximately 10 years.
AMD also announced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition processor for the 10th anniversary of AM4 at Computex 2026. Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition was prepared as a special version of Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the first Ryzen processor with AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology. The processor comes with a thermal interface material called Carbice Ice Pad. AMD announced that this model will go on sale as of June 25 and its release price will be $ 349.
On the AM5 side, the new processor is Ryzen 7 7700X3D. AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D was announced as the new desktop processor that brings 3D V-Cache technology to a wider user base on the AM5 platform. The processor has 8 cores, a total of 104 MB cache and a boost frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. Ryzen 7 7700X3D will be released on July 16 with a recommended sales price of $ 329. AMD’s announcement also included the memory side. With the new certification called AMD EXPO Technology: Featuring Ultra Low Latency, a new profile focusing on the latency side is offered in compatible memory kits.
According to AMD’s own tests, EXPO memory with Ultra Low Latency support provides an average of 4 percent additional FPS increase in games compared to standard EXPO memory configurations. Certified memory kits will be offered by memory manufacturers starting from June 2026. On the graphics card side, the company is also launching the Radeon RX 9070 GRE model to the global market. Based on AMD RDNA 4 architecture, Radeon RX 9070 GRE comes with 48 processing units, 12 GB memory and a clock speed of up to 2.79 GHz.
According to AMD’s statement, the card offers an average of 21 percent higher performance against the competing model in 1440p gaming performance. Radeon RX 9070 GRE will be available as reference and overclocked models through AMD partners as of June 2. The recommended sales price of the card was announced as $ 549. AMD’s Computex 2026 announcement gathered socket life, processor upgrade, 3D V-Cache options, low-latency DDR5 memory profiles and RDNA 4-based graphics card products on desktop gaming platforms under the same title.
The fact that AM5 support will continue until 2029 ensures that the current motherboard ecosystem will continue to be used with new Ryzen processors in the coming years.
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