AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU arrives on November 7th for $479

After bizarrely teasing a 9000-series X3D announcement past week, AMD is making it authoritative contiguous that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D volition beryllium disposable connected November 7th. Priced astatine $479, the 9800X3D is simply a nonstop successor to the best gaming CPU connected the market close now, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. There’s a batch to beryllium excited astir with this next-generation X3D chip, too.

AMD is expanding the basal timepiece velocity up to 4.7GHz connected the 9800X3D, with a max boost of 5.2GHz. Combined with an summation to a 120-watt TDP, this whitethorn good assistance amended productivity workloads — thing the X3D chips person ever fallen down their non-X3D counterparts on.

The 9800X3D is truly focused connected gaming, though. AMD is calling it “the world’s champion gaming processor,” and promising an 8 percent uplift successful mean FPS implicit the 7800X3D. Those gains are acknowledgment to the Zen 5 architecture and a 2nd procreation of 3D V-Cache technology.

AMD adjacent claims the 9800X3D volition beryllium up to 20 percent amended than Intel’s latest Core Ultra 9 285K successful gaming. In a video announcement, AMD computing and graphics brag Jack Huynh reveals that “in galore games specified arsenic Far Cry 6 and Cyberpunk 2077 we are much than 40 percent faster.”

The 9800X3D is besides the archetypal X3D processor to beryllium afloat unlocked, allowing enthusiasts and gamers to overclock it and compression much show retired of their systems. AMD is launching the Ryzen 7 9800X3D connected November 7th, priced astatine $479.