Temperature Testing
On this page, we are going to investigate the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D temperature. We are going to look at this two ways, first running an all-core, full-load stress-test scenario, and then we are going to look at CPU temps while gaming. All readings are taken with HWiNFO64. We are using the exact same AIO for all temperature testing, an MSI MEG CORELIQUID S360 AIO Cooler using the default mounting hardware.
Temperature – Cinebench R23
In this test, we are running Cinebench R23 for 10 minutes for all-core full-load testing. The new Ryzen 7 9800X3D does run a little warmer overall, but please keep this in mind the temperature sensors on Zen 5 have changed location. This placement shows an 8-degree increase with the 9800X3D. Compared to the competition, it’s on par with the 285K’s temps, and definitely warmer than the Ryzen 7 9700X which should have the same temp locations. Therefore, the 9800X3D does run 29 degrees hotter than the Ryzen 7 9700X, as a more comparative metric, but also two very different TDP CPUs mind you, 65W vs 120W.
Temperature – Gaming
As the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is geared as a gaming CPU, this test matters the most for users. From this, we can see that while gaming the 9800X3D is practically the same temps as the 7800X3D and 7950X3D. If we compare it to the lower TDP 9700X, then it is 12-13 degrees warmer. These temps are good temps though, they don’t run nearly as hot as the previous generation Intel CPUs, but do run a bit warmer than the average while gaming, absolutely nothing to be concerned about or that will require extreme cooling.