Surprise! After teasing the next generation of 3D V-Cache processors for consumers for a November 7 arrival, AMD chose today, Halloween, to treat gamers to a much-anticipated announcement—the oft-leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now official.
Surprise! After teasing the next generation of 3D V-Cache processors for consumers for a November 7 arrival, AMD chose today, Halloween, to treat gamers to a much-anticipated announcement—the oft-leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now official, with AMD confirming several key details, including a “revolutionary change” to the 3D V-Cache design.As expected, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an 8-core/16-thread processor just like the non-X3D Ryzen 7 9700X (a regular 9800X does not exist). It’s also based on the same Zen 5 architecture, obviously, and is a socket AM5 chip, but it’s with the clock speeds and cache arrangement where these two chips diverge.The Ryzen 7 9800X3D sports a 4.7GHz base clock and up to a 5.2GHz boost clock. Both of those are significantly higher than the Ryzen 7 9700X, which features a 3.8GHz boost clock and up to a 5.5GHz boost clock. So in essence, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D flexes a 900MHz faster base clock and 200MHz faster max boost clock. Not too shabby.It also features 96MB of L3 cache, which is 3X more than the 32MB of L3 cache found on the Ryzen 7 9700X. Combined with 8MB of L2 cache, we’re looking at 104MB of total cache on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, versus 40MB on the 9700X.AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gaming Performance ClaimsThe mountain of cache, and in particular the L3 cache, is what makes this and other X3D processor so desirable for gaming.
