After confirming that its next-generation Ryzen 9000 X3D processor was headed our way, AMD has now announced its flagship chip: the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which will benefit from its Zen 5 architecture as well as a new arrangement of its mammoth array of 64MB of cache.
Officially, AMD will begin selling the Ryzen 9000X3D family on Nov. 7, as it has said before. Now, however, we know what AMD will be selling: the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a 120W part, for $479.
Here are the specs:
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D follows the launch of the Ryzen 7000X3D family at the beginning of 2023. At the time, AMD positioned the chip as a gaming monster, using the array of first-generation V-cache to assist games that repeatedly needed to access the same information, over and over. As our Ryzen 7950X3D review showed, that paid off in a big way.
Of less importance at the time was power: the Ryzen 7000X3D family consumed just 120W, a …