AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D makes Geekbench debut with decent performance gains over last-gen counterpart

Supposed marketing material from AMD stated the Ryzen 9 9800X3D would offer a paltry 8% performance uplift over the Ryzen 7 7800X3D where it matters—gaming. In synthetic benchmarks, the X3D part will understandably lag behind its non-X3D counterpart (Ryzen 7 9700X) due to lower boost clocks. This is confirmed by two Geekbench listings of the Ryzen 9 9800X3D.

In its first run, the CPU scores 3,295 and 18,560 points in Geekbench 6.2's single and multi-core tests. In the second, it scores 3,305 and 18,221. While both scores are well within margin of error, they were performed on completely different platforms. The first one was done on a Biostar X870E motherboard with 48 GB of DDR5-8000 RAM, while the latter was done on an Asus ROG Crosshair X870E motherboard with the same amount of memory.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D boosts up to 5.3 GHz in the second test. There's no indication if this was performed at stock speeds, but this is likely the fastest the CPU could get out of the box. Unsurprisingly, it is slower than the Ryzen 7 9700X (~3,400) in single-core performance, but slightly ahead on multi-core. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D (~2,700/14,000), the Zen 5 part offers a neat 22% uplift in single-core and 30% in multi-core. Of course, X3D chips don't particularly shine in synthetic tests, and it's best to reserve judgement until some more game benchmarks show up.