AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU is ready to take the wind out of Intel’s Arrow Lake sails according to new leak

Hint also dropped that this will be the ‘2nd-gen’ of 3D V-Cache

News By Darren Allan published 24 October 2024

If you needed more rumor spillage around AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D, well, dig in, because now we have a full high-res product shot of the box for the chip.

The leaked pic comes from VideoCardz, which regularly picks up GPU and CPU-related rumors, and the photo of the packaging clearly shows it’s a Ryzen 7 CPU.

As a quick refresher, the rumors around AMD’s next-gen 3D V-Cache processors have insisted for a long time now that we’ll only get the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to kick off, even though Team Red has another pair of Ryzen 9 CPUs as part of this first clutch of Zen 5 X3D releases.

They are the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and while typically you might expect the latter flagship to come out first, this time around, AMD is apparently pushing out the mainstream Ryzen 7 workhorse as the initial launch. (It was the other way around with Ryzen 7000X3D, with the Ryzen 9 processors arriving first, followed by the top-notch Ryzen 7800X3D later).

According to VideoCardz, the only packaging shot AMD is circulating is this pic for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, so the conclusion (add salt, naturally) is that this really is the only CPU due to be launched early in November by Team Red.

AMD recently confirmed that next-gen Ryzen X3D is arriving on November 7, so we can theoretically expect the Ryzen 9800X3D to go on sale then – in just two weeks’ time. We may see a reveal of the processor as soon as tomorrow, October 25, if other rumors are right.

Analysis: Boxing clever against Intel

It’s still possible that AMD could have a triple X3D launch up its sleeve, perhaps – or maybe something entirely different, even – but the odds seem to have very much settled on the initial offering being the Ryzen 9800X3D. Indeed, this isn’t the first time the Ryzen 7 box has been leaked, but this time we’ve got a very clear shot of it – complete with the assertion that there aren’t any Ryzen 9 box photos floating around.

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