The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is said to deliver substantially higher gaming performance than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D despite Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs only having shown a single-digit FPS increase vs. the Ryzen 7000 Series, and the reason for that is largely owed to the advances that AMD made with 3D V-Cache for the Zen 5 generation, according to a new set of benchmarks published today that show how the 9800X3D, 7800X3D, 9700X, and 7700X compare when running at 4.8 GHz alongside a memory clock speed of DDR5-5200. “While Zen 5 only increases the FPS by 9% compared to Zen 4 without X3D cache from the Ryzen 7 7700X to the Ryzen 7 9700X, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is 15% faster compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D,” writes ComputerBase. The outlet’s benchmarks, which can be found below, also show the 7800X3D being 36% faster than the 7700X, but the 9800X3D being 43% faster than the 9700X.
…the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D are fifteen percent apart in the course reduced to seven games. The fact that it is not more may be due to the measurement inaccuracy of one or two percent, but in the end this also makes it clear once again: the new CPU wins in games over the old one because of the cache, not because of the higher (memory) clock.