AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU arrives on November 7th for $479

Oct 31, 2024 08:44 PM - 1 week ago 16352

After bizarrely teasing a 9000-series X3D announcement past week, AMD is making it charismatic coming that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will beryllium disposable connected November 7th. Priced astatine $479, the 9800X3D is simply a nonstop successor to the best gaming CPU connected the market correct now, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. There’s a batch to beryllium excited astir pinch this next-generation X3D chip, too.

AMD is expanding the guidelines timepiece velocity up to 4.7GHz connected the 9800X3D, pinch a max boost of 5.2GHz. Combined pinch an summation to a 120-watt TDP, this whitethorn good thief amended productivity workloads — thing the X3D chips person ever fallen down their non-X3D counterparts on.

AMD claims its 9800X3D is connected mean 8 percent faster than the 7800X3D.

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The 9800X3D is really focused connected gaming, though. AMD is calling it “the world’s champion gaming processor,” and promising an 8 percent uplift successful mean FPS complete the 7800X3D. Those gains are acknowledgment to the Zen 5 architecture and a 2nd procreation of 3D V-Cache technology.

AMD moreover claims the 9800X3D will beryllium up to 20 percent amended than Intel’s latest Core Ultra 9 285K successful gaming. In a video announcement, AMD computing and graphics leader Jack Huynh reveals that “in galore games specified arsenic Far Cry 6 and Cyberpunk 2077 we are much than 40 percent faster.”

The 9800X3D is besides the first X3D processor to beryllium afloat unlocked, allowing enthusiasts and gamers to overclock it and compression much capacity retired of their systems. AMD is launching the Ryzen 7 9800X3D connected November 7th, priced astatine $479.

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