The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the top dog in gaming performance. The American semiconductor announced that it is soon revealing the successor to that processor and rightfully — the hype is real! Let's look at all the available information about the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Rumours Round-up

It's official

AMD has dropped the launch date of its next-generation gaming processor. As per sources, there is a possibility that some other processors will also launch alongside AMD's upcoming flagship offering.

(Source: TechPowerUp) The next-generation gaming processor will have the Zen5 microarchitecture and 3D V-cache technology. AMD also revealed the upcoming silicon will support DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 storage. Other than that, no additional information is available as of now.

What it's replacing

Now that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is coming, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D will likely be replaced as the best gaming CPU by a few performance percentages. It followed Zen4 architecture and had eight cores and 16 threads. In the meantime, it clocked in at a maximum of 5 GHz and drew 120W TDP by default. It also had two cores dedicated to graphics with a peak frequency of 2.2GHz. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also supported DDR5 RAM of up to 128GB and PCIe 5.0 SSDs. This processor outdid its competitor i.e. Intel Core i9-14900K in gaming workloads.

Who it's competing

In a similar fashion to its predecessor, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D will trade blows with Intel's top offering. And that will be with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K of the Series 2 “Arrow Lake-S”. Intel has already revealed its hand and will be available physically in the coming few days. Given that, we can expect hardcore comparisons between the two top processors once AMD pushes its player to the market as well.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Launch and Availability

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D will officially hit shelves on 7 November 2024. The company also cut prices on its existing processors, likely to make way for its upcoming silicon.

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