The Granite Ridge platform cannot remain without the CPU with X3D technology, which is expected by the gamer community.
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Introduction, competitors, test platform
There can be no doubt that AMD is doing well in the desktop processor market these days. Of course, Intel’s weakness also helps in this, but let’s be honest: this alone would not be enough for success. And you don’t have to, Ryzen CPUs have been almost without exception successful since the release of the first series, and noticeable progress has also been made in the case of the current notebook family – Strix Point – and the desktop versions – Granite Ridge. The only area that remains is the gamer market – this is the segment where AMD is sending X3D processors with extra L3 cache into battle, and this includes our test subject, the latest AMD “gamer” CPU, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D too.
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As the name suggests, this is also a Granite Ridge unit, a very close relative of the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also includes a CCX and thus eight Zen 5 cores, which thanks to SMT are capable of processing 16 threads and also offers 640 kB L1 and 8 MB L2 cache. Of course, there is a big difference in the size of the L3: the 9700X got 32 MB, while the 9800X3D got 96 MB. More caches are paid for with the clocks: the 9700X can work at 3.8-5.5 GHz, while the X3D sibling is capable of 4.7-5.2 GHz.
| Processor type | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X | AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | Intel Core i9-14900K | Intel Core i9-13900K |
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| Appearance | 2024 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Code name | Granite Ridge | Arrow Lake-S | Raptor Lake Refresh | Raptor Lake | |||
| Encapsulation | Socket AM5 | LGA1851 | LGA1700 | ||||
| Base core clock | 4,3 GHz | 4,4 GHz | 4,7 GHz | 3,8 GHz | E-cores: 3.2 GHz P-cores: 3.7 GHz |
E-cores: 2.5 GHz P-cores: 3.4 GHz |
E-cores: 2.2 GHz P-cores: 3.0 GHz |
| Cores / fibers | 16 / 32 | 12 / 24 | 8/16 | 8P+16E / 24 | 8P+16E / 32 | ||
| Max. factory memory clock | DDR5-5600 | DDR5-6400 | DDR4-3200, DDR5-5600 | ||||
| Max Boost | 5,7 GHz | 5,6 GHz | 5,2 GHz | 5,5 GHz | E-cores: 4.6 GHz P-cores: 5.5 GHz |
E-cores: 4.3 GHz P-cores: 5.5 GHz |
E-cores: 4.3 GHz P-cores: 5.4 GHz |
| L1D/L1I cache size | 16 x 32 / 32 kB | 12 x 32 / 32 kB | 8 x 32 / 32 kB | ||||
| L2 cache deserve | 16 x 1024 kB | 12 x 1024 kB | 8 x 1024 kB | P-cores: 8 x 3 MB; E-cores: 4 x 4 MB |
P-cores: 8 x 2 MB E-cores: 16 MB (shared) | ||
| L3 cache size | 64 MB | 96 MB | 32 MB | 36 MB | |||
| Communication with the chipset |
x8 DMI 4.0 (16 GT/s) | x8 DMI 4.0 (16 GT/s) | x4 PCI Express 4.0 | ||||
| Integrated PCIe controller | 28 tracks (5.0) | 16+4 lanes (5.0); 4 lanes (4.0) |
20 tracks (5.0) | ||||
| Instruction sets | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4A, AVX, AVX2, FMA(3), AES, SHA, CLZERO, AVX-512, VNNI |
MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, AES-NI, AVX, AVX2, FMA(3) |
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| Other technologies | AMD-V, PTE Coalescing, IOMMU 2.5, Sense Mi Technology | EIST, C1E, C-states, Execute Disable Bit, VT-x, VT-d, Hyper-Threading |
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| Production technology | 4 nm FinFet+6 nm FinFet | TSMC N3, N5, N6, Casing Intel Foveron 3D |
10 nm Enhanced SuperFin | ||||
| TDP | 170 watt, PPT: 230 watt |
120 watt, PPT: 162 watt |
120 watt, PPT: 162 watt |
65 watt, PPT: 88 watt |
TDP: 125 watt PL1: 250 watts PL2: 250 watt |
TDP: 125 watt PL1: 253 watts PL2: 253 watt |
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| Number of transistors and wafer size |
2 x 8.3 billion 2 x 70 mm² (CPU chiplet) 3.4 billion 122 mm² (IO lapka) |
8.3 billion 70 mm² (CPU chiplet) 3.4 billion 122 mm² (IO lapka) |
n. a. ~300 mm² |
n. a. ~257 mm² |
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| Integrated GPU (IGP) | AMD Radeon Graphics | Intel Xe | UHD Graphics 770 | ||||
| Recommended retail price (upon notification) |
$649 | $549 | $479 | $359 | $589 | ||
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Test platform
Testing the Ryzen 7 9800X3D requires a new BIOS (including the new AGESA 1.2.0.2a), or rather a motherboard for which this is already available. In our case, it was a Gigabyte X870E AORUS Master, so we performed the measurements on it. The processor was paired with a total of 32 GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 memory.
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Source: prohardver.hu
