AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D gets official, arrives November 7 priced at $479

In brief: AMD has officially introduced nan Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a nonstop successor to nan lauded 7800X3D from a twelvemonth and a half agone and nan first X3D CPU to beryllium afloat unlocked and primed for overclocking.

AMD's latest is built connected nan Zen 5 architecture and utilizes nan company's second-generation 3D V-Cache technology. The chipmaker said it relocated nan cache representation beneath nan processor, putting nan halfway analyzable dice (CCD) successful person proximity to nan cooling solution.

By keeping nan cores cooler, AMD was capable to ramp up mill timepiece speeds. The spot features 8 high-performance cores / 16 processing threads pinch a guidelines timepiece of 4.7 GHz and a max boost timepiece of 5.2 GHz. For comparison, nan 7800X3D was clocked astatine 4.2 GHz and could boost up to 5.0 GHz.

AMD further noted nan spot carries a "hearty" 120W TDP and 104 MB of full cache.

The caller X3D spot provides up to an mean 8 percent gaming capacity betterment complete nan erstwhile procreation model, and is said to beryllium 20 percent faster than nan title (an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K).

In titles for illustration Far Cry 6, Hogwarts Legacy, and Ashes of nan Singularity, gamers tin expect complete a 20 percent summation successful capacity compared to nan 7800X3D according to AMD. Versus nan caller Arrow Lake chip, AMD claims its 9800X3D is much than 50 percent faster successful games for illustration Watch Dog Legions and Cyberpunk 2077.

While nan caller spot is afloat unlocked and fresh for overclocking, you'll still beryllium taking a consequence doing so. In nan good print, AMD notes that operating nan spot extracurricular of its published specifications will void immoderate applicable merchandise warranty – moreover if done truthful utilizing AMD hardware aliases software.

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D arrives connected November 7 priced astatine $479, which is astir $30 much than nan 7800X3D debuted at. Is it worthy it? Be judge to cheque backmost present connected motorboat time for our afloat reappraisal of AMD's latest X3D chip.