AMD Ryzen 9800X3D overclocking potential shown: CPU hits jaw-dropping 6.9GHz, exceeds 1,200 fps in Counter-Strike 2

• AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D has been overclocked to 6.9GHz pinch liquid nitrogen
• This is nan first X3D CPU that tin beryllium overclocked and it’s very impressive
• It reached 1,260 fps successful Counter-Strike 2 and complete 1,500 fps successful Valorant

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is hitting nan shelves later today, but nan processor is already successful nan hands of master overclockers being pushed to its limits – hitting astir 7GHz for timepiece speeds and reaching outrageous framework rates successful games and scenarios wherever nan CPU is pushed hard.

In lawsuit it escaped your attention, 1 of nan absorbing points astir this caller 3D V-Cache CPU is that it’s unlocked, truthful tin beryllium overclocked – which wasn’t imaginable pinch erstwhile procreation X3D chips. (Its timepiece speeds are besides faster, each of this acknowledgment to nan 3D V-Cache being situated underneath nan CCD – nan dice containing nan processor cores – allowing for amended cooling, compared to nan cache being connected apical wherever it was located previously).

Wccftech reports that nan General Manager of Asus China, Tony Yu, has shared a immense overclock of nan Ryzen 9800X3D on Bilibili wherever nan spot was moving from 6.7GHz each nan measurement up to 6.9GHz pinch liquid nitrogen cooling crossed a artillery of tests.

Naturally, an Asus motherboard was used, pinch nan ROG Crosshair X670E Gene playing big to nan CPU – and an Nvidia RTX 4090 connected manus arsenic nan GPU successful nan gaming tests.

In those gaming benchmarks, Yu ran Counter-Strike 2 astatine 1080p (max graphics settings) and deed 1,262.9 frames per 2nd (fps), which is beautiful incredible. That’s almost arsenic speedy arsenic nan Core i9-14900K, which arsenic Wccftech points out, managed to highest astatine complete 1,300 fps – but there’s a immense quality successful powerfulness usage for these processors.

The Ryzen 9800X3D deed that framework complaint astatine astir nan 100W mark, pinch nan Intel CPU guzzling measurement much powerfulness – it tin scope 360W aliases truthful successful normal (albeit heavy) usage, fto unsocial pinch exotic overclocking. Also, nan 14900K was moving astatine measurement faster clocks of 7.5GHz to 8GHz.

Valorant was besides utilized to tally nan Ryzen 9800X3D done its gaming paces and nan CPU averaged adjacent to 1,100 fps astatine 1080p solution (again pinch maxed retired settings), reaching complete 1,500 fps astatine times.

The Ryzen 9800X3D besides took a Cinebench R23 tally wherever nan CPU achieved a people of 30,513, complete a 3rd faster than Wccftech’s ain consequence erstwhile utilizing PBO (overclocking utilizing Precision Boost Overdrive, of people pinch normal cooling, not nan exotic methods employed here).

Analysis: Gaming excellence pinch ratio successful spades

It’s earnestly awesome that nan Ryzen 9800X3D tin execute these framework rates astatine timepiece speeds of astir 15% little than Intel’s Core i9-14900K, and astatine a powerfulness usage which is way, way, little – astatine 100W, AMD’s spot is really pulling retired immoderate stops here.

This is simply a really businesslike spot for overclockers, successful different words, and tin of coming adjacent to matching nan 14900K erstwhile engaging successful all-in exotic overclocking pinch nan likes of liquid nitrogen (while keeping nan strategy unchangeable capable to play a game, albeit for a little play of clip only, nary doubt).

These benignant of overclocks don’t person immoderate real-world application, of course, but they do show that much modular overclocking (with robust air, aliases liquid cooling) has a awesome woody of imaginable successful getting a batch much retired of nan 9800X3D – thing nan rumor mill has already fto america know. There’s besides that ‘X3D turbo mode’ we support proceeding astir to see arsenic well.

Interesting times, past – nan Ryzen 9800X3D is looking beautiful beardown (our afloat reappraisal is imminent, by nan way), and rumor has it that banal levels will beryllium plentiful. Although nan flimsy alert successful nan ointment is that value hike of conscionable complete 5% AMD has applied compared to nan MSRP of its predecessor.

The Core i9-14900K remains nan absolute fastest gaming CPU retired there, and it’ll beryllium a spot cheaper than nan 9800X3D, astatine slightest going by prices astatine nan clip of writing, arsenic location are immoderate large discounts connected nan last-gen Intel flagship correct now (as portion of early Black Friday deals successful immoderate cases). But nan trade-off is simply a overmuch heavier powerfulness drain pinch nan 14900K arsenic already noted. (Plus, perhaps, worries astir stableness excessively – though Intel has put those problems to bed now, nan specter of them apt remains successful nan backmost of nan gaming public’s corporate mind).

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