The Ryzen 9000 Series, a new generation of desktop processors from AMD that are among the first to feature the company’s high-performance Zen 5 cores, will not be faster than the existing, Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000X3D Series in the realm of gaming, according to new statements shared by Donny Woligroski, AMD’s Senior Technical Marketing Manager of Consumer Processors. Woligroski, who spoke during last week’s COMPUTEX 2024 event, mentioned that the Ryzen 7800X3D, in particular, is faster than the Ryzen 9700X, which is scheduled to release next month alongside its Zen 5 siblings with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a boost clock of up to 5.5 GHz.
Woligroski mentioned:
- “Is [the 9950X] the fastest in gaming? It’s faster than the competition in our tests. X3D is still the king of the hill, but by a much smaller margin than typically between X3D and non-X3D.”
- “So a 7800X3D would, yes, be faster than 9700X, but maybe not by as much as you would expect.”
- “…when it comes to X3D, and I’ll just get around that now, we’re super committed to X3D. In fact, we have some really, really cool updates to X3D coming. So we’re working on iterating and not just rehashing it.”
- “At the end of the day, we give you more performance without increasing power, and at the end of the day, we give you more performance without increasing the heat. At the end of the day, we bought a non-X3D chip very close to an X3D chip when it comes to gaming.”
A promo for the 7000X3D Series that AMD shared in February 2023:
From a report:
Woligroski points to a slimmer margin between the X3D and non-X3D chips this time around, an improvement likely borne of Zen 5’s impressive 16% IPC gain, faster L1 and L2 caches, and better boost frequencies. We’ll also see much faster performance in productivity workloads with Ryzen 9000 over the X3D chips.