AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Geekbench listing showcases marginal performance gains over its non-3D counterpart
AMD finally lifted the covers off the Ryzen 7 5800X3D earlier this month (March 2022). Initial claims about its performance stated that the processor could trade blows with and even outperform the top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to its 64 MB of L3 3D V-cache. However, its first Geekbench run tells an entirely different tale.
In Geekbench's single-core test, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D nets a score of 1,633, a smidgen lower than its non-3D variant's average of 1,700. On the multi-core test, the processor does remarkably better with a score of 11,250. One also has to consider that the CPU in question could be an early sample not performing at its full potential. Its lower operating voltage could be impeding performance, too. Besides, Ryzen is known to benefit from faster memory, and the 3,200 MT/s kit on the test bench's Asrock X570 Taichi motherboard could also be negatively affecting the test.
Lastly, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D's main selling point is the extra cache, which will come in handy in workloads that can use it, and Geekbench isn't one of them. The lack of overclocking support could hurt its prospects against competing Alder Lake processors, especially the cheaper non-K SKUs which benefit from a BCLK overclock. That, combined with Zen 4's arrival later this year, could significantly hurt the Ryzen 7 5800X3D's sales prospects.
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