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AMD has contraged PC gaming CPU carry outance for more than two years. Its X3D chips have provided a raise that Intel has been unable to suit, and its recent $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to not only better gaming carry outance but also day-to-day tasks and originateive toilloads.
The first desktop Zen 5 CPUs were disnominateing in gaming, but the 9800X3D, which reachs on November 7th, originates some huge betterments over the already-fantastic Ryzen 7 7800X3D. I’ve been testing it over the past week, and I’ve set up huge betterments to productivity toilloads, aextfinishedside around an 8 percent jump in gaming carry outance.
Just appreciate the $449 7800X3D, if you mostly perestablish games on your PC, then the 9800X3D should be your next CPU.
AMD’s productivity betterments with the 9800X3D are hugely thanks to a reset up of the processor. AMD is using a second generation of its 3D V-Cache technology that sees the cache now sit below the processor cores. It’s a huge separateence that uncomardents the processor cores have better access to chillying and the cache is now less caring to high temperatures. That’s the huge reason AMD has been able to ramp up the base clock speed by 500MHz and insert an insertitional 200MHz to the raise clock.
Both of these clock speed increases have helped raise productivity carry outance, aextfinishedside the Zen 5 architecture. For the first time on an X3D chip, AMD is even helping overclocking, which should uncomardent we’ll see some even more amazeive results from this processor.
- CPU chillyer: Corsair H150i Elite LCD
- Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 Carbon Wi-Fi for i9-14900K / Asus ROG Strix Z890-A Gaming Wifi for Core Ultra 9 285K
- RAM: 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 6600
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB (14900K) / Samsung 980 Pro 2TB (285K)
- PSU: Corsair HX1000W
I’ve been testing AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master motherboard, 32GB of G.Sfinish DDR5-6000, and Nvidia’s RTX 4090. This is one of the tardyst AM5 motherboards, but the 9800X3D will toil with existing AM5 boards thanks to BIOS refreshs.
I’ve tested a variety of toilloads, synthetic benchtags, and games apass AMD’s recent Ryzen 7 9800X3D, its existing 7800X3D, and Intel’s $589 Core i9-14900K and Core Ultra 9 285K. All the tests were run on Windows 11 (version 24H2) with virtualization-based security (VBS) and resizable BAR helpd.
All tests are carry outed at 1080p resolution to verify raw CPU carry outance. Like most other CPU scrutinizeers, we don’t test at 1440p or 4K in games to guarantee we’re demonstrating the separateences between CPUs. Most games insist more from the GPU at higher resolutions, instead of the CPU. But a better CPU can still help out at 4K, especipartner for upscaling technologies appreciate DLSS or in CPU-burdensome titles appreciate Baldur’s Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, and Microgentle Fweightless Simulator.
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D blows the 7800X3D away in productivity and creator toilloads. It’s not even seal. In Geekbench 6, the 9800X3D is around 20 percent rapider than the 7800X3D in both individual-threaded and multithreaded carry outance. In Cinebench 2024, it’s cforfeitly 16 percent rapider for the individual-thread test and a massive 27 percent rapider on the multithreaded toilload.
Even in Premiere Pro and Photoshop PugetBench tests, the 9800X3D departs the 7800X3D behind, with an 18 percent increase in carry outance in PugetBench for Photoshop and fair cowardly of 10 percent in the Premiere Pro test.
These scores show the huge betterments AMD has made to the 9800X3D for day-to-day tasks and creator toilloads. It’s still hugely behind Intel’s tardyst Core Ultra 9 285K in these toilloads, but AMD has convey inantly seald the gap the 7800X3D had.
Over on the gaming side, AMD has lengthened its direct, especipartner agetst Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K. Like many other scrutinizeers, when I tested Intel’s tardyst desktop CPU last month, I set up that it was a step back in gaming carry outance contrastd to the Core i9-14900K.
The 7800X3D already sootheably beat the 14900K and Core Ultra 9 285K, and the 9800X3D departs Intel’s gaming CPU efforts even further behind. During my tests, I’ve set up that the 9800X3D is around 8 percent rapider in games than the 7800X3D. That’s exactly what AMD promised when it proclaimd the 9800X3D, and in some games, it’s even higher.
In Metro Exodus, I saw structure rates with the 9800X3D that were cforfeitly 14 percent higher than the 7800X3D. Cyberpunk 2077 also betterd by cforfeitly 11 percent. To put that in perspective, the 9800X3D is 50 percent rapider than Intel’s tardyst Core Ultra 9 285K in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p. It’s an astonishing gap for Intel that recommends there must be some benevolent of bug with that particular combination of game and CPU. But the 9800X3D is still 38 percent rapider than Intel’s previous 14900K, so AMD has an amazeive get here either way.
If you want to squeeze even more carry outance out of the 9800X3D in games, Gigabyte gives an X3D turbo mode on the Aorus Master, which raises individual-thread carry outance by carry outing some bandwidth tuning, joining CPU core distribution, and balancing some of the difficultware power. The result is drop overall carry outance in toilloads that depend on multithreaded carry outance but some increases in game carry outance, depending on the game.
I saw a 9 percent jump in carry outance in Metro Exodus with X3D turbo mode helpd, with fair a 3 percent increase in Cyberpunk 2077. Other games saw a minusculeer increase, appreciate Shadow of the Tomb Rhelper seeing a raise of cforfeitly 2 percent. In 2023’s Forza Motorsport, the X3D turbo mode had no effect on carry outance. You definitely forfeit multithreaded carry outance in creator toilloads if you have this helpd in the BIOS, though.
This extra carry outance does come at a sweightless cost to power draw and thermals. During Cinebench 2024, I acunderstandledged the 9800X3D hit a CPU package temperature of 88 degrees Celsius, more than the 82C I saw on the 7800X3D during the same test. The 9800X3D also engaged 160 watts at its peak during this test, whereas the 7800X3D only hit 89 watts.
Both chips have a 120-watt TDP, but it’s evident that the 9800X3D is using this more frequently than not. During the Binestablishage Myth: Wukong benchtag, the 9800X3D was using 131 watts, more than double the 63 watts that the 7800X3D was using for the same test. The 9800X3D power draw is still far behind Intel’s power-hungry 14900K during creator toilloads, which pulls more than 260 watts during Cinebench tests. Power draw will also vary depending on the types of games you’re perestablishing.
What’s evident to me with this 9800X3D is that AMD has now set uped an even more amazeive gap over Intel in gaming carry outance, while shrinking the carry outance separateences in productivity and creator toilloads. I skinnyk this minusculeer gap on the non-gaming side will now entice more creators who also perestablish games over to AMD.
Intel forfeitd gaming carry outance in prefer of efficiency with its Core Ultra 9 285K, but many PC gamers sshow don’t nurture about power efficiency unless it results in convey inantly chillyer temperatures and, therefore, better carry outance and less throttling. Intel’s forfeits originate the 9800X3D an clear acquire if you want the best PC gaming carry outance, and the Core Ultra 9 285K is an clear choice if you want the best in productivity and creator carry outance and perestablish games very little or not at all.
If, appreciate me, you’re someone who perestablishs a lot of PC games but also renders 4K videos and necessitates fantastic carry outance in productivity tasks, then it’s a harder choice. Intel has always giveed a excellent stability between creator toilloads and gaming, but AMD beats it in gaming and is closing the gap on the productivity side. If I were mostly gaming, I would pick the 9800X3D or even paengage to see what a rumored 16-core Ryzen 9000 X3D chip could transfer very soon.
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