On its product pages, AMD reveals the launch date of the three desktop processors Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D with particularly large level 3 caches: Sales should therefore begin on February 14, 2023.
The date names AMD on the product pages of all three CPUs, debunking rumors of a staggered launch. For the announcement at the CES technology fair, AMD held back with a more precise date – there was only talk of a presentation in February. The prices, which are expected to be significantly higher than those of the sister models without the stack cache, remain unknown.
Fastest in games
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 7 are the fastest gaming processors, ahead of Intel’s Core i9-13900K. During the CES keynote, AMD showed self-created benchmarks, according to which the Ryzen 9 7950X3D should be 9 percent (“Watch Dogs: Legion”) to 24 percent (“Horizon Zero Dawn”) faster in selected games. The regular Ryzen 9 7950X is slightly slower than the Core i9-13900K in games on average.
At least according to AMD’s own benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D should be faster than Intel’s Core i9-13900K in selected games.
If you only use the desktop PC for gaming, it is better to use the eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The Ryzen 9 models with 12 and 16 CPU cores only use a compute chiplet with a stack cache; the second chiplet has to do without it, but clocks higher. It remains to be seen how well the thread distribution in games and applications works.
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