AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Evaluation: The Ultimate CPU For PC Players

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How the Ryzen 7 9800X3D compares to the additionally 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X and the previous-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D equal is specified by the desk above. Apart from the bottom and enhance clocks and official reminiscence pace assist, it looks as if not a lot has modified. AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 7800X3D share what look like related cache configurations and TDPs. However, after all, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D options AMD’s newest Zen 5 microarchitecture, and its second technology 3D V-Cache actually flips the script to permit for not solely larger clocks, however clocks that stay persistently larger for longer durations.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a 500MHz larger base clock and 200MHz larger enhance clock than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which alone ought to enhance efficiency. However AMD has additionally enlarged the bodily dimension of the 3D V-Cache die to match the CCD, and bonded it to the bottom-side this time round. Which means the CPU cores have direct entry to cooling, which was a limiting issue with earlier generations. 3D V-Cache on the 5000 and 7000 collection was bonded on high of the CCD, so the CPU cores radiated warmth by way of the cache, to the cooler – that’s not the case.

The updates to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s design and 3D V-Cache implementation allowed AMD to allow full overclockability as nicely, which is a primary for X3D collection processors.

By way of its precise configuration, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an 8-core / 16-thread, single-CCD half, with a base clock of 4.7GHz and a max enhance clock of 5.2GHz. There’s 96MB of second technology 3D V-Cache on board and with Zen 5 processors, AMD formally helps a non-overclocked reminiscence pace of DDR5-5600, although larger clocks are simply potential and DDR5-6000 stays the candy spot for fanatics. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a 120W configurable TDP and slots into the identical AM5 socket because the Ryzen 7000 and different 9000 collection chips. We examined on one of many newest X890E-based motherboards, however 600-series chipset-based motherboard may also assist the Ryzen 7 9800X3D when flashed with the mandatory BIOS replace.

Bodily there’s not a lot to see. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D appears similar to each different Ryzen 9000 collection processor, save for the branding on the highest of its heat-spreader. All the similar cooling and equipment that match the Ryzen 7000 collection and present 9000 collection will work correctly on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU-Z Particulars

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D’s particulars as reported by CPU-Z are specified by the pictures above. The household, stepping and different particulars are the identical as normal Ryzen 9000 collection processors and the one change is the quantity of L3 cache.

 
 
Idle clocks (left), 100% MT load clocks (proper)

There’s 80K of L1 per core (48K D-Cache [12-way] + 32K I-Cache [8-way]), which is a rise from 64K on Zen 4 / Ryzen 7000. There’s additionally 1MB of L2 cache per core, which is 16-way set associative. Normal Ryzen 9000 collection processors additionally characteristic 32MB of L3 cache per compute die, however with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that compute die is outfitted with a further 64MB of 3D V-Cache bringing the entire L3 as much as 96MB (104MB complete cache).

And it’s that large 96MB of L3 cache that permits the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to maintain a lot of knowledge near the CPU cores and enhance recreation efficiency. However the different tweaks to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will help common efficiency as nicely. Now it is time to present you the remainder of our take a look at setup’s elements and get to some numbers…