It looks like AMD has a plan to proverbially shower Intel’s glory around the release of the new generation of desktop processors Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200S). Some time ago, rumors began to appear that shortly after the launch of the competition, AMD will release gaming “X3D” processors derived from the Zen 5 architecture, which could take the throne of the fastest gaming CPU. According to the latest reports, they will come shortly after Arrow Lake and with better clocks than the “X3D” Zen 4 achieved.
According to previous reports, AMD was supposed to release an octa-core version of Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this year, while 12-core and 16-core would be released later in the new year. Chinese forum Chiphell has now reported that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D could be officially announced on 10/25, which is the day after Intel starts selling Arrow Lake processors for the LGA 1851 platform. This date, it seems, even on one of AMD’s local representatives told the forum, but his comment was later deleted.
If this date is true, it should just be the day of the paper reveal of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. On this day, AMD will share the parameters and the availability date with the price. There could probably be some benchmarks shown, but as always with official testing, they may not be completely trustworthy due to the possibility of bias, best to wait for independent testing.
According to the same deleted comment, then the actual availability of the processor should start from 11/1 to 5, which is over the weekend (Friday to Tuesday). In addition, different information appeared, according to which the sharp release with real availability should be 11/7, that is, the following Thursday. Accordingly, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D should be available for purchase two weeks after the Arrow Lake processors. For now, however, this is officially unconfirmed information.
All-core boost 5,2 GHz?
On the Chinese social network Bilibili, information about the parameters of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D appeared almost at the same time. From those, it seems that the processor will have higher frequencies than the previous Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which could help boost its gaming performance a bit higher. According to the alleged Cinebench test image, the base frequency should be 4.7 GHz, and the processor is said to be able to boost with all cores to 5.2 GHz. This is not necessarily its maximum boost, as it could theoretically be clocked slightly higher on one preferred core. However, 5.2 GHz could be its frequency relevant for gaming.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D based on the previous generation Zen 4, on the other hand, has a base clock of only 4.2 GHz, so there would be a significant improvement in it. But real frequencies will be more important. Ryzen 7 7800X3D has an official maximum boost of 5.0 GHz, unofficially the real maximum is slightly higher (5050 to 5100 MHz). According to HWCooling’s review, the frequencies in Cinebench R23 were on average 4.7 GHz and in games around 4.8 GHz. If the Ryzen 7 9800X3D was actually able to stick to somewhere around 5.2GHz in games instead, it would mean a noticeable shift in performance and gaming FPS, 8-10% just from the clocks alone, which could then add some shift given by the architecture.
However, we still have to consider the possibility that the frequencies in the games will be slightly lower than in the leaked Cinebench test. For example, it’s possible that the leaker used some extremely powerful water cooling, while it would be worse in air (also the possibility that the leak shows an overclocked system cannot be ruled out).
In addition to a higher clock rate, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D should also draw better performance from cores with a new architecture (Zen 5). The L3 cache will remain at 96 MB and the model will still have eight cores and 16 threads. There will be official support for DDR5-5600 memory instead of just DDR5-5200, but this may not be very important since users will be using overclocked memory with XMP or EXPO profiles anyway.
Arrow Lake officially slower than Ryzen 7 7800X3D?
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D should be the fastest gaming processor upon release. Intel seems to have indirectly confirmed this as well. His representative Robert Hallock (who previously worked at AMD himself) reportedly said in one of the briefings that the Core 9 285K as the most powerful Arrow Lake model should have “roughly” 5% lower gaming performance than the current Zen 4 generation Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The successor to the 9800X3D should be even faster, so AMD will likely deepen the lead with this processor, and its “X3D” models will be the most powerful option gamers can buy.
Again, it should be added that this statement is part of Intel’s marketing, so take it with a grain of salt, again you have to wait for real independent tests. It is also true that the performance varies according to the specific games in which it is tested, so for that reason too, similar comparisons are always indicative.
Source: www.cnews.cz
