The specs for AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D have been leaked ahead of its planned November 7 release – and that’s good news for gamers.
The leak remains consistent with the previous leak in the marketing description regarding a performance increase over its predecessor, the 7800X3D. As noted by VideoCardzThe leak comes from Geizhals, a price comparison tool used by retailers in Europe. Although the veracity of the information cannot be fully determined at this time, it is likely accurate; After all, leaks coming from retailers are usually more reliable than anonymous claims on social media.
AMD’s upcoming CPU will reportedly use eight Zen 5 cores with a base clock speed of 4.70 GHz, which can be boosted to 5.20 GHz – a 0.20 GHz jump over the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and with the CPU multiplier unlocked allows users to manually overclock this new processor. This wasn’t possible with previous AMD CPUs that used 3D V-Cache, which could be a major boon for overclocking enthusiasts.
The leaked specs point to 96MB 3D V-Cache, identical to the 7800X3D (which is among AMD’s best processors), but the aforementioned marketing leak suggested the 9800X3D might have an 8% performance boost over AMD’s current high -end gaming CPU. This is reportedly made possible by ‘Next-Gen 3D V-Cache’, but the Geizhals leak doesn’t appear to add any further information.
What does this mean for gamers?
AMD’s 3D V-Cache is a useful tool for PC gamers, as it effectively triples the amount of cache memory available on the processor – something that almost any game can easily take advantage of, but it’s especially valuable in CPU-bound titles.
Content creators in particular could benefit from the rumored Next-Gen 3D V-Cache, as it should improve performance when running multiple applications simultaneously – for example if OBS or Twitch is open in the background while playing a game .
Of course, it’s important that we wait for AMD’s official reveal to find out if the gaming performance improvement suggested by the leak is indeed the case – and if so, it could go a long way towards improving the gaming experience for many on PC, given the recent slew of CPU-bound titles such as Dragon dogma 2 And Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.