AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests a big jump in clock speeds – and a CPU that’s set to become Intel’s worst nightmare
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak gives us a tantalizing glimpse of some potentially big strides this next-gen CPU has made in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a significant drag on clock frequency reaches.
Maybe that’s not the case anymore, at least not if a video of Bilibili is posted on X by leaker HXL (highlighted by VideoCardz) is all we can judge, but as always we have to be careful with leaks.
9800X3D base 4.7 GHzAll Core Turbo 5.2 GHzhttps://t.co/cPk2fEhroH pic.twitter.com/J0O5uZqs4POctober 11, 2024
With that in mind, the clip (which is really just a slideshow of screenshots) shows an alleged Cinebench R23 result, which measures the CPU’s rendering performance for single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. What’s really interesting here, however, is that the clock speeds are shown, rather than the result.
We see that AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a base clock speed of 4.7 GHz and reaches an all-core boost speed of 5.2 GHz. We must emphasize again that we are not sure if this is a real leak or not.
To give you some perspective, if we compare these clock speeds to its predecessor, the 7800X3D has a base clock of 4.2 GHz – so the 9800X3D is probably 500 MHz faster – and an all-core turbo of around 4.8 GHz – so we’re looking at 400GHz faster for the X3D newcomer.
Quite impressive to say the least, and it looks like AMD has solved its cache issues with holding back clocks and found a sweet spot between clock speeds and 3D V-Cache.
So we could be looking at some pretty insane frame rates for PC games here. Judging from previously leaked Cinebench results for the 9800X3D, the chip will also be a much better all-rounder in terms of performance – it can handle multi-core computing tasks better, but is still excellent for games. This is all in theory, of course.
Intel should be worried at this point
In summary, Intel might be sweating a bit at this point, and a mainstream X3D offering like this could leave Team Blue’s new Arrow Lake silicon in the dust, at least as far as PC gamers are concerned.
Notably, Intel has already conceded defeat in PC gaming by admitting that its Arrow Lake CPUs will be 5% slower than AMD’s 3D V-Cache Ryzen 7000 processors.
If Wccftech During a question and answer session, Robert Hallock, Intel VP and general manager of technical marketing, stated: “We showed some data about the 7950X3D. Based on my understanding of performance, that part is within a few percent, so I think we’ll be down about 5% versus X3D, which we think is very good considering we only have the cache built into the CPU and the great IPC of the product, so you will see a deficit of around 5%, I want to be clear about that.”
And that’s the scenario against AMD’s current generation 3D V-Cache, so if this leak is true, it looks like Intel is really in trouble when it comes to the 9800X3D, a CPU that could arrive soon.