Monday, October 21st 2024
AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and Price-cuts Across Ryzen 9000 Series
AMD today lifted the covers off its Ryzen 7 9800X3D Socket AM5 processor powered by the "Zen 5" microarchitecture and 3D V-cache technology. The company did not put out any product specs or other details, except announcing November 7, 2024, as the product availability date for this chip. This would put its launch exactly two weeks from that of Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake-S" processors, and give reviewers time to include the performance results of the new Intel chips in reviews of the 9800X3D. AMD is looking to extend its gaming performance leadership which it held with the 7800X3D. The switch to the newer "Zen 5" microarchitecture and higher clock speeds could push gaming performance up beyond the 7800X3D by a few percentage points. The 7800X3D is already faster than the Core i9-14900K in gaming workloads, so we're being set up for an exciting clash between the Core Ultra 9 285K and the Ryzen 7 9800X3D for gaming performance.
Next up, AMD announced official price cuts for all four current models in its Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" desktop processor family. Buyers in the retail channel should be able to find the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X 16-core/32-thread processor up to $50 cheaper than its launch price, which should bring it down to $600. The Ryzen 9 9900X (12-core/24-thread), the Ryzen 7 9700X (8-core/16-thread), and the Ryzen 5 9600X (6-core/12-thread), each get a haircut of up to $30. You should be able to find the 9900X for as little as $470. The 9700X should be down to as low as $330. The 9600X, the most affordable "Zen 5" part, should go for as low as $250. The price-cuts should be effective immediately. Although all pre-launch info points to this being an 9800X3D-only launch, our AMD PR contacts used the plural term ("X3D processors") when referring to the November 7 date. Could we see more than one X3D processor model launch, especially given the $50 price cut given to the 9950X? Watch this space.
Next up, AMD announced official price cuts for all four current models in its Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" desktop processor family. Buyers in the retail channel should be able to find the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X 16-core/32-thread processor up to $50 cheaper than its launch price, which should bring it down to $600. The Ryzen 9 9900X (12-core/24-thread), the Ryzen 7 9700X (8-core/16-thread), and the Ryzen 5 9600X (6-core/12-thread), each get a haircut of up to $30. You should be able to find the 9900X for as little as $470. The 9700X should be down to as low as $330. The 9600X, the most affordable "Zen 5" part, should go for as low as $250. The price-cuts should be effective immediately. Although all pre-launch info points to this being an 9800X3D-only launch, our AMD PR contacts used the plural term ("X3D processors") when referring to the November 7 date. Could we see more than one X3D processor model launch, especially given the $50 price cut given to the 9950X? Watch this space.
77 Comments on AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and Price-cuts Across Ryzen 9000 Series
Lesson learned: don't buy AMD's processor on release day. :banghead:
Nevertheless, I am happy with my 9950x for productivity.
The perf difference between what you have now and the 7800x3D is 20% in most games. same in general perf.
A low end entry 6 core 9600X processor for 300€, than 290€ is a joke.
I bought my second 8 core Ryzen 5800X for around 310€ in the past, my first one for 400€. That was at a time when AM5 was not available.
Similar performing products for the same socket costs basically half of the price. The 7500F / 7600 are similar products and costs basically around 150€ for a very long time. Sometimes 170€
Why?
- The processor does not have 8 cores, it has 6 cores.
- The processor has only a better AVX512 instruction set.
- The internal gpu graphics may be needed by some people. The lack of dedicated graphic memory is an argument against it. The limited features are an argument against it.
- Intel has processors with higher Core Counts
- 9600X is just an entry level processor for the AM5 socket.
Just to show how the price is over time: This is a german pricechart website, which has also an united kingdom and poland subwebsitegeizhals.at/amd-ryzen-5-9600x-100-100001405wof-a3202564.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk
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AMD has again a lot of "free" "
Trash" games with their processors. That is also an argument that the processors are overpriced. I prefer cheaper processors without cashback or free games.Don't get me wrong, the Infinity Fabric has served AMD well for years but it's showing signs of it being unable to keep up with the demand. Not only is it bandwidth starved, and can you see that in how the 3DX chip versions are so much faster than their non-3DX versions since it doesn't have to communicate with outside RAM as often which involves going over, you guessed it, the Infinity Fabric. But it's also power hungry, and it has latency issues as well.
AMD needs to develop a new data interconnect pathway, and all rumors point to that happening with Zen 6 which introduces, as I alluded to before, something similar to Apple's UltraFusion.
If we had that for Zen 5 would have no problem doing 1:1 with DDR5 8000 memory.
Heterogenous CPU core scheduling is an unsolved problem.
If this new IO die is true, and IF is being replaced then AMD have dropped the ball on AM5 badly. I wonder if AMD have decided to change strategy on AM5, and stick with it for a few more years, as there seems to be no sign of PCiE 6.0 or DDR6.
Pretty soon you'll have to be on servah chips to get even cores.