AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests a big leap in clock speeds – and a CPU shaping up to be Intel’s worst nightmare

Ryzen 9800X3D could offer an all-core boost of 5.2GHz, which would help it to become the new gaming CPU king

News By Rosario Blue published 11 October 2024

A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved.

Maybe that isn’t the case anymore, at least not if a video from Bilibili posted on X by leaker HXL (highlighted by VideoCardz) is anything to judge from, though as ever, we must be careful about leaks.

That in mind, the clip (which is actually just a slideshow of screenshots) shows a purported Cinebench R23 result, which measures the CPU’s rendering performance for single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. However, rather than the result, what’s really interesting here is the clock speeds are shown.

We see that AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a base clock of 4.7GHz and hits an all-core boost speed of 5.2GHz. Again, we should underline that we can’t be sure if this is a genuine leak or not.

To give you some perspective, if we compare these clock speeds to its predecessor, the 7800X3D has a base clock of 4.2GHz – so the 9800X3D is supposedly 500MHz faster – and all-core turbo of around 4.8GHz – so we’re looking at 400GHz faster for the X3D newcomer.

Pretty impressive, to say the least, and it would appear that AMD has solved its cache problems holding back clocks, finding a sweet spot between clock speeds and 3D V-Cache.

So, we could be looking at some pretty insane frame rates for PC games here. Judging by previously leaked Cinebench results for the 9800X3D, the chip will be a much better all-rounder in performance terms, too – handling multi-core computing tasks more ably, but still being excellent for games. All of this is in theory, of course.

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