Anticipated by many fans, especially gamers, the Ryzen 9000X3D are well on the way to delighting enthusiasts.
Launched in mid-summer, the Ryzen 9000X is just the first building block in AMD's Zen 5 project. The American company's new CPU architecture is to be found in numerous processor variants, on desktop PCs, notebooks and workstations. In the world of desktop PCs alone, several ranges are expected, and the Ryzen 9000X3D could soon be on the scene. Previous Ryzen generations had to wait 17 and 7 months respectively for the Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 7000. Now, we're talking about just four or five months, with the possible release of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D as early as the end of October, if the rumours are true of course.
This is a timely rumour, since the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is at the heart of another rumour, this time concerning its performance. These X3D chips are extremely close to the simply "X" chips, and differ from them mainly in their significantly higher cache memory. AMD is using its 3D Vertical Cache technology, which enables it - literally and figuratively - to stack cache memory chips in order to considerably increase their capacity: we're talking about 104 MB of combined cache for the 9800X3D, compared with just 40 MB for the 9700X.
https://x.com/CodeCommando_/status/1842215948343800045
On X.com (formerly Twitter), a certain CodeCommando seems to have been able to obtain some interesting information about this Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The chip has already been tested on Cinebench R23, and the results can be found on the web. What's more, these results are accompanied by those of an X3D model with 16 cores: you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see in them the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, not due for release until early next year.
- Ryzen 9000X3D 8 cores: 2,145 points (single-core), 23,315 points (multi-core),
- Ryzen 9000X3D 16 cores: 2,245 points (single-core), 42,375 points (multi-core).
VideoCardz
The VideoCardz website puts these results into perspective and, for example, reports that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is up to 28% faster than its little brother, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, in multi-core, and up to 20% faster in single-core. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is 10% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in single-core, and even 17% faster in multi-core. It's worth remembering that Cinebench R23 is probably not the preferred terrain for such processors, which are more at home in video games, where 3D Vertical Cache works wonders. We can't wait to see the results.
