It appears that evidently the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D is already out within the wild, or at the least within the fingers of reviewers based on not too long ago printed benchmark outcomes for the CPU.

In keeping with VideoCardz, the processor had been discovered within the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database, the place it was examined with the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU utilizing the Loopy 1080p preset. That individual configuration scored 8900, 9000, and 9100 factors over three iterations of the benchmark take a look at.

Whereas these numbers do give us a good suggestion as to how highly effective the CPU is, Ashes of the Singularity itself is not an awesome benchmark take a look at, sadly, as there’s an excessive amount of variation in its scoring. On this case, it’s finest to attend for different benchmark scores to emerge earlier than making a remaining resolution on the efficiency of the CPU. 

The Ryzen 9 7900X3D — which is one among three Zen four desktop processors AMD is releasing within the subsequent a number of weeks — has 12 cores and 24 threads with a lift frequency of 5.6 GHz, however the kicker is that it’ll have AMD’s 3D V-Cache tech. These processors will characteristic a stacked silicon die with 64MB of further cache, which is able to increase sure workloads like gaming considerably.

Advantages and boons of the AMD Ryzen 7000X3D household

The AMD Ryzen 7000X3D household is poised to take off, aiming proper for its competitors: Intel’s 13th-gen processors. And although its first scores with the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark are too fuzzy to actually measure the CPU straight, it nonetheless offers us an awesome concept of roughly the place it lies. Particularly when paired with an equally highly effective GPU, the CPU arms race between Group Blue and Group Pink is certainly heating up.

What is also heating up is your pockets. There have been value cuts made after the bottom Ryzen 7000-series CPUs launched, so we might be seeing at the least considerably cheap costs for the 3D V-Cache variations ultimately, however at $599 for the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, Intel’s Core i9-13900Okay nonetheless holds a significant value benefit. AMD would possibly have the option to withstand the stress to drop costs although since increased client demand for the unique gaming-friendly cache expertise is a certainty.

The opposite situation, which AMD and Microsoft are working to mitigate, stems from the CPUs’ design itself. This sequence comes with two CCDs (chiplets), with one having the 3D V-Cache on prime whereas the opposite runs with a sooner increase pace. Relying on the sport, some would possibly profit from the additional cache and others received’t, so every sport might want to have the right CCD assigned to them that works finest.

Ultimately, I need to see extra direct CPU core benchmarks like CineBench R23 or Geekbench 5 to actually get a way of how highly effective the chip is, however with a February 28 launch date, I will not have to attend too lengthy to seek out out.