AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

This is the one we’ve been waiting for: the first true gaming chip of AMD’s new Zen 5 range.

Ben Mansill & John Loeffler

PRICE $829 WEB amd.com The eternal battle for best processor goes on, and this month we test the latest salvo from AMD. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is an out-and-out gaming processor, while Intel’s Core Ultra 200K series (codenamed Arrow Lake) are all-rounders. In particular, they’re the first x86 desktop CPUs to include a neural processing unit (NPU). So, in truth these are very different chips. AMD spends the cache AMD follows a similar approach to the 9800X3D as it did with the 7800X3D. It has the same 8-core/16-thread setup as the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X, but with an additional 64MB L3 cache to take the total to 96MB. In the first iteration of 3D V-Cache, as AMD calls it, the extra die was stacked on top of the main processing…

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