First benchmarks: Will Ryzen 9800X3D & 9950X3D come without any clock losses?

When will AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D be released? When Ryzen 9000 (test) was launched, it was said that they would come sooner than expected. Recent leaks suggest that at least the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will be released this year. Now there are the first Cinebench scores for 9800X3D and 9950X3D. They turned out high.

Which X3D CPU is coming this year?

Leakers Moore’s Law is dead A week ago, AMD presented a presumably authentic marketing slide for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the potential 8-core successor to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D (test). “The legend is unbeatable“ is the slogan on the slide.

In addition, it was said that the CPU was listed in internal documents as a 2024 product, while the larger models Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 12 and 16 cores, respectively, were not. A launch of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at the end of October, beginning of November and therefore shortly after Intel’s Arrow Lake debut (Core Ultra 9 285K, Ultra 7 265K and Ultra 5 245K) seemed possible.

In addition, higher clock speeds are said to be mentioned in the documents. In the past, X3D CPUs were limited in clock speed on the chiplet that carries the 3D V-Cache. Like the 7800X3D, the CPU should have 104 MB cache, which should again consist of 8 MB L2 cache, 32 MB L3 cache in the CPU chiplet and the added 64 MB L3 cache (3D V-Cache).

X3D without loss of clock speed?

Benchmark results for the CPU in Cinebench R23 indicate that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and possibly not only this CPU, is not long in coming Code Command published on X. In addition to an 8-core variant (9800X3D), it also includes a 16-core variant (9950X3D).

If the results are correct, they would mean something else: that the X3D CPUs are no longer inferior to the non-X3D CPUs in terms of clock speed. Because how to compare the rumored values ​​with those that… Anandtech At the start of the X models (ComputerBase only used Cinebench 2024), both classes are equal in the single and multi-core measurement results.