Wednesday, May 1st 2024
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Now at a Mouth-watering $329
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, the 12-core/24-thread Socket AM5 processor with 3D V-cache, is selling at a new low price of just $329. A retailer-specific discount by AntOnline puts the processor at a price lower than the launch price of the Ryzen 7 7700X, and Core i5-14600K. While we haven't had a chance to test this chip, testing by Tom's Hardware puts its gaming performance higher than the Core i9-13900K, with a multithreaded productivity performance in a similar range. The 7900X3D probably suffers from bad sales due to the popularity of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which remains the fastest gaming processor, and the 7950X3D, which is AMD's flagship processor.
That's not all, prices of even some of the recently launched processors for the older Socket AM4 platform are on a slope, which could attract sales from those that want to upgrade. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D is a slightly slower version of the 5800X3D—the fastest gaming processor for AM4, with a gaming performance rivaling the Core i9-12900K. This new chip can be had at just $229 on Amazon US. The Ryzen 7 5800X was once a solid gaming processor when AMD dominated Intel's 10th- and 11th Gen, it's now going for just $179.
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That's not all, prices of even some of the recently launched processors for the older Socket AM4 platform are on a slope, which could attract sales from those that want to upgrade. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D is a slightly slower version of the 5800X3D—the fastest gaming processor for AM4, with a gaming performance rivaling the Core i9-12900K. This new chip can be had at just $229 on Amazon US. The Ryzen 7 5800X was once a solid gaming processor when AMD dominated Intel's 10th- and 11th Gen, it's now going for just $179.
104 Comments on AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Now at a Mouth-watering $329
Dedicated gamers would be better off spending their money on other parts of the rig for a better all round gaming experience. Even with stuff like chairs.
If possible.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/are-you-using-an-amd-ryzen-x3d-cpu-with-3d-v-cache.312452/
AMD CPUs far exceed Intel CPUs in too many metrics.
Besides sales, AMD doesn't have any IGP advantages anymore like they did six months ago.
Its just that Intel has so many OEM design wins and they can saturate the market with cheap dual and quad cores with bare minimum iGPUs.
If I want an all rounder, I get the 7950X
7900X3D just stood there without purpose.
Hardware team has a defective chip and cuts it down to a usable 6 + 6 cores.
While doing this, they effectively made a chip that was not suitable for the top tier, working for a lower tier, and things get sold.
How or what model is being released don't matter. You can still disable the 2nd CCD if that is all an issue for you.
Chip performs perfect for what it does.
Besides, it would allow AMD to get rid of some chiplets with only 4 - 5 cores, although I bet there aren't many.No.
6 cores with 3D V-cache performs worse than 8 cores, and that was my whole point.
I bet 8 + 4 would work better, and given that the 7900X3D originally cost $150 more than the 7800X3D it wouldn't have been to much too ask that AMD would use a full 8 core 3D chiplet.
Keep the defective ones for a 5600X3D successor (shown below, using a 7900X3D with one chiplet off).
In above video, and i think another one, there's a scene where the AMD hardware specialists are given semi defective CPU's and try to simply make a different version (less cores, lower clocks) out of it so that it can be sold.
As far as i understand, they simply hardware fuse off things through software. So that proces is irreversible. Gives a good insight on how CPU's are made. The whole X3D thing was a failed EPYC chip and it was up to them to figure out what todo with it.
The additional cache had one excellent use case, gaming!
Problem with the 7900X3D is that the 7800X3D outperformed it in games for less.
Inter-CCD latency makes them hard to recommend for gamers - you can always disable half the cores, but then you just have an overpriced 6 or 8-core CPU, you should have bought that in the first place.
For productivity, the asymmetrical cache causes scheduling headaches and in most instances it adds nothing to performance. In reality the additional layer of cache imposes clockspeed, voltage, and cooling complications that simply aren't there on the regular 7900X and 7950X.
IMO the 7800X3D is the only X3D AM5 part worth considering, unless AMD make the bold move of adding 3D V-Cache to both CCDs on the 7900 and 7950 variants.
Sick of overpriced sand.