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
As a 4090 gamer in 4k i would like to hear more.
1. We already know that the 3D is being hastened to be released in 2k24
2. We already know they have been working on increasing the frequency of the 3D parts and improving the thermal dissipation and interface.
3. 104 MB cache was also mentioned by someone else
He said nothing new.
That said, the 7800X3D CCD can easily run hotter since it is essentially insulated by the 3D vcache.
Were you at the absolute limit with the 7700X cooling-wise?
I thought it was a mounting issue, too, but it did the same after several remounts. I also bought a Thermal Grizzly offset mount which was a waste of money.
At first I was surprised when I changed the core affinity in windows to just pcores and got significantly reduced performance. I couldn't believe it. Do ecores really matter in this game? Then I get a tip that, some dx12 games do not like their affinities being messed with so I disabled ecores AND hyperthreading from the the bios. Then I went in game to 720p and and turned dlss on to balanced and guess what - I was STILL GPU LIMITED. I couldn't believe it. And I have a 4090. Still turning the ecores and hyperthreads back on did improve fps, but not by much, only by 3-4%, so, within margin of error.