AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak shows it running at 5.6GHz on all cores – could this be the CPU to finish off Intel in PC gaming?

Latest Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests it’ll be extremely fast for gamers happy enough to fine-tune the CPU

News By Darren Allan published 23 October 2024

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has some impressive potential to be fine-tuned for eye-opening performance levels, or that’s the latest rumor (among many) around the soon-to-be-unleashed Zen 5 processor.

Wccftech spotted that on the Anandtech forums, Igor Kavinski leaked some benchmark scores for the Ryzen 9800X3D. These come complete with CPU-Z details of clock speeds, and notes on the processor configuration used to achieve the eye-opening boost clock shown – namely just over 5.6GHz across all eight cores.

The Ryzen 9800X3D (likely a prerelease engineering sample chip) was turbocharged to those levels by using Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and Curve Optimizer (CO) plus a raft of other manual fine-tuning of the CPU by Kavinski. We can guess the cooler used was a high-end effort, too, which all goes to explain hitting 5.6GHz, which is quite remarkable across all the processor’s cores.

To put it in perspective, the rumored all-core boost of the 9800X3D is 5.2GHz out of the box (with no tuning), although that’s still a good deal faster than the 7800X3D (at 4.8GHz).

Turning to the benchmarks shown, one is from Cinebench R23 and the Ryzen 9800X3D comes out well here too, with a score of 2,261 in single-core and 25,258 in multi-core. As Wccftech points out, for the latter, the Ryzen 7800X3D typically falls between 18,000 to 19,000, so this appears to indicate that this (heavily amped up) 9800X3D could be a good 30% faster when it comes to non-gaming performance.

As for gaming, a Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail benchmark is aired here, showing a score of 62,360 (but the GPU that the 9800X3D was paired with isn’t shared). We don’t have comparisons for the 7800X3D there, but the general reaction to the result is that it’s again impressive – as you’d expect from the juicing up that’s gone on here.

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Clearly, we need to bear firmly in mind that not every Ryzen 9800X3D buyer will go to lengths that Kavinski has done here – many won’t – and there are unknowns like the cooling setup and how fancy it was. So, the benchmark leaks need to be interpreted with a healthy dose of skepticism, but just seeing that all-core boost pushed this high is promising.

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