- AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D has been overclocked to six.9GHz with liquid nitrogen
- That is the primary X3D CPU that may be overclocked and it’s very spectacular
- It reached 1,260 fps in Counter-Strike 2 and over 1,500 fps in Valorant
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is hitting the cabinets later at present, however the processor is already within the fingers of professional overclockers being pushed to its limits – hitting almost 7GHz for clock speeds and reaching outrageous body charges in video games and eventualities the place the CPU is pushed laborious.
In case it escaped your consideration, one of many attention-grabbing factors about this new 3D V-Cache CPU is that it’s unlocked, so might be overclocked – which wasn’t potential with earlier technology X3D chips. (Its clock speeds are additionally sooner, all of this because of the 3D V-Cache being located beneath the CCD – the die containing the processor cores – permitting for higher cooling, in comparison with the cache being on prime the place it was positioned beforehand).
Wccftech studies that the Normal Supervisor of Asus China, Tony Yu, has shared an enormous overclock of the Ryzen 9800X3D on Bilibili the place the chip was operating from 6.7GHz all the best way as much as 6.9GHz with liquid nitrogen cooling throughout a battery of checks.
Naturally, an Asus motherboard was used, with the ROG Crosshair X670E Gene taking part in host to the CPU – and an Nvidia RTX 4090 available because the GPU within the gaming checks.
In these gaming benchmarks, Yu ran Counter-Strike 2 at 1080p (max graphics settings) and hit 1,262.9 frames per second (fps), which is fairly unbelievable. That’s virtually as fast because the Core i9-14900K, which as Wccftech factors out, managed to peak at over 1,300 fps – however there’s an enormous distinction in energy utilization for these processors.
The Ryzen 9800X3D hit that body fee at across the 100W mark, with the Intel CPU guzzling far more energy – it might probably attain 360W or so in regular (albeit heavy) utilization, not to mention with unique overclocking. Additionally, the 14900K was operating at approach sooner clocks of seven.5GHz to 8GHz.
Valorant was additionally used to run the Ryzen 9800X3D by means of its gaming paces and the CPU averaged near 1,100 fps at 1080p decision (once more with maxed out settings), reaching over 1,500 fps at instances.
The Ryzen 9800X3D additionally took a Cinebench R23 run the place the CPU achieved a rating of 30,513, over a 3rd sooner than Wccftech’s personal end result when utilizing PBO (overclocking utilizing Precision Enhance Overdrive, after all with regular cooling, not the unique strategies employed right here).
Evaluation: Gaming excellence with effectivity in spades
It’s critically spectacular that the Ryzen 9800X3D can obtain these body charges at clock speeds of round 15% decrease than Intel’s Core i9-14900K, and at an influence utilization which is approach, approach, decrease – at 100W, AMD’s chip is basically pulling out some stops right here.
It is a actually environment friendly chip for overclockers, in different phrases, and able to coming near matching the 14900K when partaking in all-in unique overclocking with the likes of liquid nitrogen (whereas retaining the system secure sufficient to play a sport, albeit for a quick time frame solely, little question).
These type of overclocks don’t have any real-world utility, after all, however they do present that extra customary overclocking (with strong air, or liquid cooling) has an excessive amount of potential in getting much more out of the 9800X3D – one thing the rumor mill has already tell us. There’s additionally that ‘X3D turbo mode’ we maintain listening to about to think about as properly.
Attention-grabbing instances, then – the Ryzen 9800X3D is wanting fairly sturdy (our full overview is imminent, by the best way), and rumor has it that inventory ranges will probably be plentiful. Though the slight fly within the ointment is that value hike of simply over 5% AMD has utilized in comparison with the MSRP of its predecessor.
The Core i9-14900K stays absolutely the quickest gaming CPU on the market, and it’ll be a bit cheaper than the 9800X3D, at the very least going by costs on the time of writing, as there are some massive reductions on the last-gen Intel flagship proper now (as a part of early Black Friday offers in some instances). However the trade-off is a a lot heavier energy drain with the 14900K as already famous. (Plus, maybe, worries about stability too – although Intel has put these issues to mattress now, the specter of them doubtless stays behind the gaming public’s collective thoughts).
