- Reviews Claim AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Excels at Productivity, Creativity, and Gaming Tasks
- Innovative cache design improves cooling and multi-threaded efficiency
- Eight cores, 16 threads and 96 MB L3 cache for $480
AMD's latest Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor has impressed tech critics across the board, with media outlets highlighting its ability to handle productivity and creative workloads as well as gaming.
Priced at $480, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D offers eight Zen 5 cores, 16 threads, and an expanded 96MB L3 cache. Its design achieves better thermal management by placing the cache below the compute chip, enabling higher sustained clock speeds. This approach not only keeps the processor cooler but also optimizes data flow, making it more efficient for multithreaded applications.
Checking the notebook He noted that the processor's higher IPC performance makes it “a good foundation for creative tasks,” adding: “Compared to its predecessor, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D offers up to 25 percent more performance depending on the scenario, without a increase in their energy consumption. .”
Full overclocking support
In his review, TechPowerUp said: “While general application performance is not the main focus of the 9800X3D, it is still something that is important to test. Many creators not only game, but also run compute-intensive applications, which was a bit of a weakness of the X3D family, because Intel's Raptor Lake offered better application performance and pretty close gaming performance. With the 9800X3D, AMD has successfully solved that problem. The 9800X3D is 18% faster than its predecessor, which is a significant improvement. In some applications, the gains are even more substantial.”
The reviewer added: “On certain compute-intensive tasks, we're seeing improvements of 25 to 30%, which is very impressive. Compared to the 9700X, the 9800X3D is 6% faster and is only 12% behind the 9900X.”
Tom Hardware However, it sounded a note of caution, saying: “The Core i9-14900K is a closer competitor to the 9800X3D due to its lower price of $440, and provides better performance in productivity workloads at its price than the 9800X3D, surpassing it. by 41% and 10% in multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads, respectively. If you're more interested in productivity work in this price range, the 14900K is a solid contender, although it typically consumes more power (except at idle).”
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D provides full overclocking support, with AMD's Precision Boost Overdrive feature offering an accessible path to extracting even more performance.
Users can adjust core and memory speeds, maximizing the CPU's potential for both gaming and creative work. This flexibility in performance tuning fits well with AMD's strategy of delivering processors that suit a variety of demanding tasks.
Tom Hardware He concluded his enthusiastic review with a nod to the processor's versatility, saying: “The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the fastest gaming chip on the market by a wide margin, easily outperforming competing processors from Intel. “AMD has also significantly improved performance in productivity workloads, helping to eliminate some of the disadvantages of selecting a gaming-optimized X3D chip.”