Monday, September 30th 2024
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D To Feature Significant Clock Speed Boost
We've known about the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for a good long while now, and previous leaks and rumors indicated that it would offer a rather significant boost in gaming performance thanks to changes to the 3D V-cache amounts and layouts. Now, a new leak, which purports to show off the official retail packaging for the new CPU, suggests that clock speeds will get a boost over the existing AMD Ryzen 7 78000X3D.
The leak, shared by Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube, shows off a supposed retail box for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D that was sent to AMD's partners for marketing, and along with that, he claims to have had access to the entire marketing slide deck, which is where the frequency boost information comes from. According to the leaker, the 9800X3D's marketing material specifically calls out the processor as being "designed for increased frequencies."
It's unclear whether this wording in the marketing refers to faster base or boost clocks, but previous reporting revealed that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D would have more overclocking potential than its predecessors, which were generally locked to their stock clock speeds to protect the more sensitive 3D V-cache stacked on the CPU dies. In all likelihood, this likely references both increased base and boost clocks as well as improved overclocking headroom.
It could also be a similar case to AMD's other 9000 series Ryzen CPUs, which shipped with a 65 W TDP and were later updated to 105 W after it was revealed that the 65 W limit drastically hampered performance improvements compared to the previous generation. AMD even went so far as to say that it would honor warranties for any Zen 5 CPUs that were configured to run at an increased TDP.
In addition to confirming previous rumors about the new X3D CPU being capable of higher clock speeds, MLID also reinforced other rumors that the 9800X3D will be launching as soon as October 2024.
[Editor's note: Our in-depth review of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is live]
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Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube
The leak, shared by Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube, shows off a supposed retail box for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D that was sent to AMD's partners for marketing, and along with that, he claims to have had access to the entire marketing slide deck, which is where the frequency boost information comes from. According to the leaker, the 9800X3D's marketing material specifically calls out the processor as being "designed for increased frequencies."
It could also be a similar case to AMD's other 9000 series Ryzen CPUs, which shipped with a 65 W TDP and were later updated to 105 W after it was revealed that the 65 W limit drastically hampered performance improvements compared to the previous generation. AMD even went so far as to say that it would honor warranties for any Zen 5 CPUs that were configured to run at an increased TDP.
In addition to confirming previous rumors about the new X3D CPU being capable of higher clock speeds, MLID also reinforced other rumors that the 9800X3D will be launching as soon as October 2024.
[Editor's note: Our in-depth review of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is live]
67 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D To Feature Significant Clock Speed Boost
Nonsense if new generation it's slower than previously one...
He was very much on the zen 5, Intel is screwed, hype train. -- He did say at least 15-25% and it ended up being 5%. Then he backtracked and said, well - it's actually 15%-35%(avx 5) in these (cherry picked) benchmarks.
He always maintained 15-20%.
Blame RedGamingTech etc for 40% or more rumors.
Still it's unfair to blame MLID for 5% because in reality no one expected it to be this low in general applications and gaming.
15% has been pretty standard across Zen generations. Zen 5 is a major deviation in this regard.
Essentially you are blaming MLID for not being a time traveler and reporting 5% a year before it came out.
As it turned out AMD themselves did not know the exact number even after launch...
This going against a tuned arrow lake with cudimm ram is going to be interesting. Ill probably end up getting the 9800x3D tho tbh.
Sure I could lock my fps to 80... but i would rather have 180+gsync. Way more enjoyable - it's an absolutely huge difference to me the way the game feels.
Upping to a 9800x3d that can push high FPS to the 4090, and be able to deal with the resource pig that is nvidia driver would result in smoother gameplay and let me actually cap modern titles to 200+ fps when i tune the game settings at 4k.
Not inclined to believe any rumors about this at this point.