Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Zen 5 X3D part appears to promise major gaming uplift with big clock speed increase

We’ve been getting a steady stream of Ryzen 9000X3D leaks over the past months. From the possibly reduced prices to more V-Cache for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, the Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D chips are set to extend AMD’s gaming lead over Intel even further. This is especially true now that the new Intel Core Ultra 200K “Arrow Lake” CPUs aren’t expected to bring any gaming performance bump over the 14th-gen chips.

When it comes to Ryzen 9000X3D specifications, rumors state that the chips will have higher clock frequencies than their Zen 4 counterparts. In line with these reports, a new video posted on bilibili shows the Ryzen 7 9800X3D running with a much higher all-core boost clock than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

Ryzen 7 9800X3D clock speeds

Per the video on bilibili, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D reportedly has a base clock speed of 4.7 GHz while boosting to 5.2 GHz on all cores in what appears to be Cinebench 2024. While we don’t have access to the benchmark results, the all-core 5.2 GHz clock speed is rather exciting for a few reasons.

Firstly, if the all-core frequency of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is indeed 5.2 GHz, it will be a massive 400 MHz increase over the Ryzen 7 7800X3D which only boosts to 4.8 GHz on all 8 cores. Interestingly, the 400 MHz increase is in line with the frequency bump that we saw with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.8 GHz) vs the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (4.35 GHz). 

Secondly, a 5.2 GHz all-core boost clock also means that we might be looking at a 5.4 to 5.5 GHz single-core boost. For reference, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a single-core boost frequency of 5 GHz. Since games love a high single-threaded frequency, a higher single-threaded clock speed means more gaming performance in most titles.

Additionally, when we combine the IPC gain afforded by the new Zen 5 architecture, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D starts to seem like a healthy upgrade over the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. This should make AMD fans who were burned by the disappointing gains of vanilla Zen 5 parts quite happy.

Before we wrap this up, take the information presented here with a grain of salt, since we have no official confirmation of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs at this moment.

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