**The AMD 9800 X3D: A Faster CPU with Limited Generational Upgrades**

It's finally here, the long-awaited AMD 9800 X3D, and we're eager to dive into its performance. As I gaze upon this new chip, I must admit that my initial excitement is tempered by a sense of unease. You see, it has right-angled pins, which is actually better, but in this case, it's not necessarily more desirable.

I'm going to have to order some sort of PCI Jet 5 PPL extension to cover that, because it's just not very attractive. The only other option I guess would be to have it come sort of over the graphics card, but I think that doesn't look particularly great either. On that bombshell, the build is kind of ready, so should we boot it up and see how it performs? It's all on nothing, it's all nothing at this point.

**Performance: Where Does the 9800 X3D Land in Gaming Benchmarks?**

Now that we have our system built, let's dive into the performance numbers. We'll be using synthetic benchmarks to get an idea of how the 9800 X3D stacks up against its predecessor, the 7800 X3D.

Here are the detailed benchmark numbers for synthetic tests. As you can see, all of our benchmarking data is fresh, and the CPUs have been tested in the exact same configuration with the same RAM, motherboard, bios, and Windows versions. In these tests, we're looking at a significant uplift in 1% low frame rates, which will greatly increase the consistency of frame rates and reduce stuttering within gameplay.

In ALien: Weight 2, we saw frame rate improvements across the board, with the 9800 X3D delivering around 4% more frames per second than the 7800 X3D. Cyberpunk 277 also showed a significant improvement in 1% low frame rates, moving from 180 frames per second on the 7800 X3D and RTX 490 to over 258 FPS on this new chip.

**Gaming Performance: A Mixed Bag at 1080p**

On the other hand, in Fortnite, we saw a more pronounced improvement of around 10% compared to the 7800 X3D. However, not all games performed as well. In Apex Legends, we were pretty much stuck on a frame rate cap, so we can kind of discard that result. In Call of Duty's Black Ops 6, we saw a minimal performance increase for the 9800 X3D of around 1.2% with 236 versus 233 frames per second.

**4K Performance: Mixed Results**

In our load of 4K numbers, we saw a mixed bag of results. In ALien: Weight 2, we saw an improvement in frame rates, but it was not as significant as expected. Cyberpunk 277 showed virtually the same frame rate between the two CPUs. Fortnite, however, delivered an 8.8% increase in frame rate compared to the 7800 X3D.

**The Verdict: A Faster CPU with Limited Generational Upgrades**

In AMD's own press materials, they claim that the 9800 X3D doesn't necessarily beat out the 7800 X3D in all circumstances. However, from our testing, we can discern that the 9800 X3D is a faster chip, albeit not by a great margin. The 9800 X3D still provides phenomenal performance and represents a pretty good value at its price point, which AMD has kept under $500 and well under £500.

In conclusion, while the generational performance uplift between the 7800 X3D and 9800 X3D is not as great as I would have hoped for, this chip still offers significant improvements in 1% low frame rates. If you're looking for a gaming CPU and don't need the absolute best of the best, the 9800 X3D might be the chip to pick up. However, if you want the top-of-the-line performance, especially with next-gen top-end GPUs that will again put more emphasis on a bottleneck on the CPU side rather than GPU side, this might just be the chip for you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe brand new ryzen 7 9800 x3d has landed we've tested it and at around 5% more powerful than the previous 7800 x3d and major improvements to 1% low frame rates we officially have the world's new fastest gaming CPU which is why today I'll be building the fastest gaming PC you can assemble right now with amd's new flagship gaming CPU a topof the range GPU and some genuinely awesome Hardware are be taking you guys along for the ride showing you the full build process things that go right and maybe those that go wrong got to and of course looking at detail benchmarks of amd's new Chips you can see exactly what it's capable of and just how much of an improvement it offers up over the last gen option let's do this now I'm pretty hyped about this build because it actually looks like we've got the first CPU launch in a while that might just be worthwhile now yes the 5% performance improvement over the last gen 7 2800 x3d isn't maybe the high double digit Improvement that you may have expected from CPUs a few years ago but by recent standards it's quite the upgrade the 9800x 3D builds upon the success of amd's previous 7800 x3d a chip that's performed so well and was once such a good value proposition you now can't buy one for anywhere near MSRP I saw the 7800 x3d frequently sit below the $400 price point whether this Chip's going to get there and how long it's going to take is yet to to be seen I'd hedge my bets this is going to be quite expensive for some time given of course we're expecting new flashy NextGen gpus don't get me wrong this isn't the CPU if you want really high core count multi-thread workloads if you look at cinebench R23 multicore it gets destroyed by Wow amd's Own ryzen 99's the core Ultra 9 the I9 to be expected but when it comes to gaming it consistently sits at the top of all of our charts in our normalized testing rig this is both at 1080p whereas CPU Boton X more announced and at 4K where you're going to have more of a lean towards the GPU ultimately this CPU is a really important release at this point in the market why because we're expecting new topof the range gpus from Nvidia in January and the likelihood is the CPU in that situation will be the botton ne meaning this unlocking another 5 6 7% more performance is going to have a direct impact on the builds you'll be able to assemble in just a few weeks time now later on when I run through all the benchmarks of this specific build we're actually going to swap the 7800 x3d in for every single one of our Benchmark tests so you can see game by game how much quicker this chip is and you can use the time stamps below to navigate through the different sections of today's video in terms of the GPU pairing there can only be one choice and it's a card that if I'm honest you shouldn't actually buy right now this is the RTX 490 today I've gone for the founders Edition because well think just looks really cool now I'm using this card because it's well the fastest card on the market right now and it's going to give us the best performance when combined with our 98 00 x3d however if you're going to build this build or thinking of building this build wait wait until January we're widely expecting the RTX 90 which would push things further now as far as motherboard and RAM and SSD goes in this board I'll be using the x870 taiichi I wanted to use a high-end x870 board for this build anyway but full transparency as part of receiving the CPU before embargo from AMD they also send out a motherboard and RAM kit that they have validated to work I'll list the other three boards from MSI Asus and gigabyte they gave us a pick off the four boards I've not used the taii before so I thought it was a good chance to get hands on with them I should clarify this stage like all of the media coverage you'll be seeing on the Embargo day today this video isn't sponsored by AMD they haven't seen it before it's gone out and all the opinions of course are my own but we're using a board that's been validated as far as the BIOS and the chipset to work the best with these new CPUs now let's have a quick look shall we at this board in a bit more detail because the taii range has got quite the reputation and straight away you can see why it's stacked with PCI G 5 supports you've got room for an mvme fully tooless on the side and down here just below the CPU as well you've then got further non- tooless mvme slots the all important am5 socket a release to easily take out and release the GPU latch the rear iio is pretty stacked too we've got a 5 GB ethernet port optical audio loads of highspeed USBS including USB 4 type A and type c as well as some Ultra USB power ports which are going to provide better power delivery to your devices when they're plugged in as far as the design goes as well you can see it's a pretty sick subtle black and gold color scheme which I really really like and I think makes the board look frankly pretty awesome for the ram in this build I'm going to be using this G skilt Trident Z5 Neo this is a SE out 28 kit with a 6,000 MHz clock speed this is the two-tone black and white design you can also find the full black design in RGB and nonb derivatives which we've used before in builds here on the channel SSD wise we've got a very special Edition Samsung 9990 Pro this is the worldwide Olympic Edition this is going to be a really great bet for this build as far as gem for mvme goes it's about as high-end as you get AMD did send this SSD out and the 990 Pro is what we use anyway for our standardized Benchmark rigs if you wanted to go higher end and you wanted truly the fastest gaming PC you might want to consider a gem 5 solution like the Corsair mp700 Pro or a drive along those lines I'd also recommend picking up at least a 2 tab not a 1 tby derivative for a build like this without any further Ado though I think it's time to install our 9800 x3d into this build I'm guessing AMD are going to have further x3d CPUs in the near future maybe I don't know CES a little disappointed toc1 but this is the important one in the market right now first up is going to be of course the CPU really easy to get this installed just line the triangles and close the socket Ram is next I'll be using the second and fourth slots if we're counting across from the CPU outwards and then of course the mvme drive into the very top slot just below the CPU at this stage of the build I also want to talk very briefly about CPU calling our benchmarking so far has tested the 7800 x3d no the 9800 x3d well well that and the 7800 x3d with a 360 mil and a 420 mil 360 is more than adequate and as I say no overclocking on this build so it's not as though we really need loads of extra cooling capacity I think the horrendous power consumption on 14th and even 13th gen to a degree just made us all kind of buy these really expensive massive radiator coolers that we just don't need anymore which is a good thing this right here is the fantex glacia 1 360 D30 and it basically has this really nice sort of daisy chain fans on with ar argb that look absolutely gorgeous and I think in the case I've gone for it's going to look amazing so you can see three of those fans going to deal with those later the radiator comes nicely packaged up which is good to see what I'm bothered about though is this bag right here of mounting hardware I want to see how this cooler is going to install onto an AMD based system so I can do any of the prep before getting the motherboard into the case now if I remember remember correctly AMD yeah this is pretty easy all we need to do is simply remove the pre-installed black plastic brackets but above and below the CPU socket and replace these with fantex AMD standoffs this is nice and easy and just helps us out a little bit later with that nicely sorted the next step is to move this into the case let me clear a little bit of room to bring into to play this the fantex nv5 I always say seven I don't know why I think there that's because the NZ XT like H7 is there like mid Tower and this is a similar kind of form factor one of my favorite cases of the year the mv5 really really like it build quality is amazing all the panels are just super solid the only disadvantage really is that you don't get any fans included so I've had to go out and buy some on my own but that is fine the only thing I was slightly worried about earlier I forgot when I requested this motherboard it's e8x which kind of doesn't really need to be I don't really see a particularly densely packed PCB but anyway I'm being antic however it looks like the mv7 no however it looks like the mv5 has got enough clearance to support this board I guess so one way to find out the only thing that I think might get in the way is going to be that vertical GPU Mount maybe yeah that's looking like it's going to be in the way okay I'm going to remove this vertical GPU Mount just here I may be able to add it in back again once the motherboard's been installed but for now it's coming out once that's out the motherboard is then going to slide in hopefully without too many problems yeah that's looking good to me and as you can see you can still get to all the rubber grommets the mv5 eatx builds absolutely no problems as you can see on this board we got three screw hole locations at the top three down the middle and three down the bottom these all need fastening nice and tight to hold the motherboard permanently into place the next stage then once that's in is the cooler and the fans now there's a lot of fans to install here one at the rear three on the rad at the top three on the side one on the bottom I've got fantex d30s for this they've got the right models so I've got some reverse some standard so they look good from all angles a lot of callers and fans to install here which can only mean one thing it's time for a return of the geek Fantage oh yeah what did you think of that pretty cool right yeah maybe okay anyway moving on two components left now originally I'd planned to use the fantex M 850 in this build however I changed the card over to the 4090 in this build originally I was going to go for something lower end and then I realized actually building the fastest PC possible would be better so I'm not going to go for this instead I'm going to go for a higher end 1,000 watt unit as that's going to ensure enough wattage for our CPU and GPU combo in this build I'm going to go ahead and put the new 1,000 watt power supply into this system just to give us that little bit more Headroom before then finishing off with the GPU all the cables and wiring is going to be pretty easy in this system and you can view a full cables and wiring guide over on the channel in the cards section Now All That Remains then is to pop in the 490 and yes again if you're going to replicate this build at home soon to be the 5090 now let's take this out of the box do love the founders Edition design design it is just one of the best looking cards I think Nvidia has ever made the 40 series Fe now in terms of which PCI Lanes need to be removed this is actually going to be a slightly interesting question best thing to do is to hover the graphics card over the top slot and yes in this build we're going to be installing the third fourth and fifth I suppose for us rather unhelpfully that also means taking out the very large multi sort of Lane cover at the bottom this bit's a bit clanky and you can see what I mean here can't just take out an individual PCI Lane instead I've actually got to take out the whole block very much a first world problem but still a slightly annoying thing to have to do and I don't really fully understand the benefit of this approach from fantex but a very very very minor detail and then with a bit of look all we need to do is Slide the graphics card into place that latches really nice and easily in this azrock board tighten the screw in yes look at that and the whole build really is starting to come together the final thing really to do with than the front panel cables is to pop into place a GPU power connector and on this power supply from cool master there's actually a slightly unique element to this cable and I was going to say and that's because it's actually right angled which is better but in this case that's most certainly not better oh dear I'm going to have to order some sort of PCI jet 5 PPL extension to cover that because it's not very attractive the only other option I guess would be to have it come sort of over the graphics card but I think that doesn't look particularly great either and on that bombshell the build is kind of ready so should we boot it up and see how it performs be all all I it's got to be all on nothing it's got to be all nothing at so then performance where does this 9800 x3d land and is it the new fastest gaming CPU on the market well here are the detailed Benchmark numbers now you can see all of our synthetic benchmarks on your screen now and pause if you care about these numbers but let's look at gaming now at 1080p first of all or more likely to be bound by a CPU than by a GPU bottleneck we saw results that were positive for the 9800 x3d but hardly game-changing the bigger improvements came in the 1% lows where the 9800 x3d sees far more significant uplifts across the board this is important as it's going to hugely increase the consistency of the frame rates you see and reduces the number of drops and stuttering within gameplay in alen weight 2 for example the frame rates were very similar with a percentage change of around about 2% on the 98 00 x3d versus the 7800 x3d all of this data is fresh data by the way so the CPUs have both been tested in the exact same config with the same Ram same motherboard same bios and same Windows versions now in Apex Legends we were pretty much hidden the 300 FPS frame rate cap so we can kind of discard that result while in Call of Duty's Black Ops 6 we saw a minimal performance increase for the 9800 x3d of around 1.2% with 236 versus 233 frames per second the Improvement in 1% loads is more pronounced to moveing from 127 to over 138 frames per second cyberpunk was a little more pronounced with 13 FPS or so difference at 1080p High settings all of these are rasterization numbers by the way so no R tracing no dlss no FSR no frame generation none of that straight raster while fortnite gave us the biggest difference here at 1080p we actually saw around 10% Improvement on the 9800 x3d versus the 7800 x3d that came before it again the Improvement in 1% lows was strong here in fact particularly so moving up from 180 frames per second on the 7800x 3D and RTX 490 to 1% low of 258 FPS on this new x3d chip now on the other end of the spectrum we also ran a load of 4K numbers and here we actually saw a fairly mixed bag when it came to the frame rates now in Allen weight 2 for example we saw a few more frames per second around 4% uplift from 71 to 74 cyberpunk 277 was very minimal with virtually the same frame rate between the two fortnite had again a more pronounced increase of around 8 .8% give or take in frame rate while Apex and Black Ops were actually worse now in amd's own press materials they actually show the 9800x 3D doesn't necessarily beat out the 7800x 3D in all circumstances but from our testing we can discern the 9800x 3D is a faster chip but not by a great margin the 9800x 3D still provides phenomenal performance and at the price point which AMD have kept under $500 and well under £500 it represents a pretty good value bet if you're looking for a gaming CPU and a gaming CPU alone now I would have liked to have seen larger generational performance uplifts between the 7800 x3d and 9800 x3d and if the rumors on the Great Vine the AMD sort of maybe not rush this CPU out but brought it out far earlier than they would have otherwise intended as a response sort of to Intel Core Ultra that has to be viewed as a bit of a mistake because well core Ultra is not really boding much of a threat to well anyone the 9800 X 3D though is a faster CPU and if you want the best of the best especially for those Next Generation topend gpus which will again put more emphasis on a bottl neck that CPU side rather than GPU side this might just be the chip to pick up even if as I say the generational performance uplift isn't quite as great as what I would have hopedthe brand new ryzen 7 9800 x3d has landed we've tested it and at around 5% more powerful than the previous 7800 x3d and major improvements to 1% low frame rates we officially have the world's new fastest gaming CPU which is why today I'll be building the fastest gaming PC you can assemble right now with amd's new flagship gaming CPU a topof the range GPU and some genuinely awesome Hardware are be taking you guys along for the ride showing you the full build process things that go right and maybe those that go wrong got to and of course looking at detail benchmarks of amd's new Chips you can see exactly what it's capable of and just how much of an improvement it offers up over the last gen option let's do this now I'm pretty hyped about this build because it actually looks like we've got the first CPU launch in a while that might just be worthwhile now yes the 5% performance improvement over the last gen 7 2800 x3d isn't maybe the high double digit Improvement that you may have expected from CPUs a few years ago but by recent standards it's quite the upgrade the 9800x 3D builds upon the success of amd's previous 7800 x3d a chip that's performed so well and was once such a good value proposition you now can't buy one for anywhere near MSRP I saw the 7800 x3d frequently sit below the $400 price point whether this Chip's going to get there and how long it's going to take is yet to to be seen I'd hedge my bets this is going to be quite expensive for some time given of course we're expecting new flashy NextGen gpus don't get me wrong this isn't the CPU if you want really high core count multi-thread workloads if you look at cinebench R23 multicore it gets destroyed by Wow amd's Own ryzen 99's the core Ultra 9 the I9 to be expected but when it comes to gaming it consistently sits at the top of all of our charts in our normalized testing rig this is both at 1080p whereas CPU Boton X more announced and at 4K where you're going to have more of a lean towards the GPU ultimately this CPU is a really important release at this point in the market why because we're expecting new topof the range gpus from Nvidia in January and the likelihood is the CPU in that situation will be the botton ne meaning this unlocking another 5 6 7% more performance is going to have a direct impact on the builds you'll be able to assemble in just a few weeks time now later on when I run through all the benchmarks of this specific build we're actually going to swap the 7800 x3d in for every single one of our Benchmark tests so you can see game by game how much quicker this chip is and you can use the time stamps below to navigate through the different sections of today's video in terms of the GPU pairing there can only be one choice and it's a card that if I'm honest you shouldn't actually buy right now this is the RTX 490 today I've gone for the founders Edition because well think just looks really cool now I'm using this card because it's well the fastest card on the market right now and it's going to give us the best performance when combined with our 98 00 x3d however if you're going to build this build or thinking of building this build wait wait until January we're widely expecting the RTX 90 which would push things further now as far as motherboard and RAM and SSD goes in this board I'll be using the x870 taiichi I wanted to use a high-end x870 board for this build anyway but full transparency as part of receiving the CPU before embargo from AMD they also send out a motherboard and RAM kit that they have validated to work I'll list the other three boards from MSI Asus and gigabyte they gave us a pick off the four boards I've not used the taii before so I thought it was a good chance to get hands on with them I should clarify this stage like all of the media coverage you'll be seeing on the Embargo day today this video isn't sponsored by AMD they haven't seen it before it's gone out and all the opinions of course are my own but we're using a board that's been validated as far as the BIOS and the chipset to work the best with these new CPUs now let's have a quick look shall we at this board in a bit more detail because the taii range has got quite the reputation and straight away you can see why it's stacked with PCI G 5 supports you've got room for an mvme fully tooless on the side and down here just below the CPU as well you've then got further non- tooless mvme slots the all important am5 socket a release to easily take out and release the GPU latch the rear iio is pretty stacked too we've got a 5 GB ethernet port optical audio loads of highspeed USBS including USB 4 type A and type c as well as some Ultra USB power ports which are going to provide better power delivery to your devices when they're plugged in as far as the design goes as well you can see it's a pretty sick subtle black and gold color scheme which I really really like and I think makes the board look frankly pretty awesome for the ram in this build I'm going to be using this G skilt Trident Z5 Neo this is a SE out 28 kit with a 6,000 MHz clock speed this is the two-tone black and white design you can also find the full black design in RGB and nonb derivatives which we've used before in builds here on the channel SSD wise we've got a very special Edition Samsung 9990 Pro this is the worldwide Olympic Edition this is going to be a really great bet for this build as far as gem for mvme goes it's about as high-end as you get AMD did send this SSD out and the 990 Pro is what we use anyway for our standardized Benchmark rigs if you wanted to go higher end and you wanted truly the fastest gaming PC you might want to consider a gem 5 solution like the Corsair mp700 Pro or a drive along those lines I'd also recommend picking up at least a 2 tab not a 1 tby derivative for a build like this without any further Ado though I think it's time to install our 9800 x3d into this build I'm guessing AMD are going to have further x3d CPUs in the near future maybe I don't know CES a little disappointed toc1 but this is the important one in the market right now first up is going to be of course the CPU really easy to get this installed just line the triangles and close the socket Ram is next I'll be using the second and fourth slots if we're counting across from the CPU outwards and then of course the mvme drive into the very top slot just below the CPU at this stage of the build I also want to talk very briefly about CPU calling our benchmarking so far has tested the 7800 x3d no the 9800 x3d well well that and the 7800 x3d with a 360 mil and a 420 mil 360 is more than adequate and as I say no overclocking on this build so it's not as though we really need loads of extra cooling capacity I think the horrendous power consumption on 14th and even 13th gen to a degree just made us all kind of buy these really expensive massive radiator coolers that we just don't need anymore which is a good thing this right here is the fantex glacia 1 360 D30 and it basically has this really nice sort of daisy chain fans on with ar argb that look absolutely gorgeous and I think in the case I've gone for it's going to look amazing so you can see three of those fans going to deal with those later the radiator comes nicely packaged up which is good to see what I'm bothered about though is this bag right here of mounting hardware I want to see how this cooler is going to install onto an AMD based system so I can do any of the prep before getting the motherboard into the case now if I remember remember correctly AMD yeah this is pretty easy all we need to do is simply remove the pre-installed black plastic brackets but above and below the CPU socket and replace these with fantex AMD standoffs this is nice and easy and just helps us out a little bit later with that nicely sorted the next step is to move this into the case let me clear a little bit of room to bring into to play this the fantex nv5 I always say seven I don't know why I think there that's because the NZ XT like H7 is there like mid Tower and this is a similar kind of form factor one of my favorite cases of the year the mv5 really really like it build quality is amazing all the panels are just super solid the only disadvantage really is that you don't get any fans included so I've had to go out and buy some on my own but that is fine the only thing I was slightly worried about earlier I forgot when I requested this motherboard it's e8x which kind of doesn't really need to be I don't really see a particularly densely packed PCB but anyway I'm being antic however it looks like the mv7 no however it looks like the mv5 has got enough clearance to support this board I guess so one way to find out the only thing that I think might get in the way is going to be that vertical GPU Mount maybe yeah that's looking like it's going to be in the way okay I'm going to remove this vertical GPU Mount just here I may be able to add it in back again once the motherboard's been installed but for now it's coming out once that's out the motherboard is then going to slide in hopefully without too many problems yeah that's looking good to me and as you can see you can still get to all the rubber grommets the mv5 eatx builds absolutely no problems as you can see on this board we got three screw hole locations at the top three down the middle and three down the bottom these all need fastening nice and tight to hold the motherboard permanently into place the next stage then once that's in is the cooler and the fans now there's a lot of fans to install here one at the rear three on the rad at the top three on the side one on the bottom I've got fantex d30s for this they've got the right models so I've got some reverse some standard so they look good from all angles a lot of callers and fans to install here which can only mean one thing it's time for a return of the geek Fantage oh yeah what did you think of that pretty cool right yeah maybe okay anyway moving on two components left now originally I'd planned to use the fantex M 850 in this build however I changed the card over to the 4090 in this build originally I was going to go for something lower end and then I realized actually building the fastest PC possible would be better so I'm not going to go for this instead I'm going to go for a higher end 1,000 watt unit as that's going to ensure enough wattage for our CPU and GPU combo in this build I'm going to go ahead and put the new 1,000 watt power supply into this system just to give us that little bit more Headroom before then finishing off with the GPU all the cables and wiring is going to be pretty easy in this system and you can view a full cables and wiring guide over on the channel in the cards section Now All That Remains then is to pop in the 490 and yes again if you're going to replicate this build at home soon to be the 5090 now let's take this out of the box do love the founders Edition design design it is just one of the best looking cards I think Nvidia has ever made the 40 series Fe now in terms of which PCI Lanes need to be removed this is actually going to be a slightly interesting question best thing to do is to hover the graphics card over the top slot and yes in this build we're going to be installing the third fourth and fifth I suppose for us rather unhelpfully that also means taking out the very large multi sort of Lane cover at the bottom this bit's a bit clanky and you can see what I mean here can't just take out an individual PCI Lane instead I've actually got to take out the whole block very much a first world problem but still a slightly annoying thing to have to do and I don't really fully understand the benefit of this approach from fantex but a very very very minor detail and then with a bit of look all we need to do is Slide the graphics card into place that latches really nice and easily in this azrock board tighten the screw in yes look at that and the whole build really is starting to come together the final thing really to do with than the front panel cables is to pop into place a GPU power connector and on this power supply from cool master there's actually a slightly unique element to this cable and I was going to say and that's because it's actually right angled which is better but in this case that's most certainly not better oh dear I'm going to have to order some sort of PCI jet 5 PPL extension to cover that because it's not very attractive the only other option I guess would be to have it come sort of over the graphics card but I think that doesn't look particularly great either and on that bombshell the build is kind of ready so should we boot it up and see how it performs be all all I it's got to be all on nothing it's got to be all nothing at so then performance where does this 9800 x3d land and is it the new fastest gaming CPU on the market well here are the detailed Benchmark numbers now you can see all of our synthetic benchmarks on your screen now and pause if you care about these numbers but let's look at gaming now at 1080p first of all or more likely to be bound by a CPU than by a GPU bottleneck we saw results that were positive for the 9800 x3d but hardly game-changing the bigger improvements came in the 1% lows where the 9800 x3d sees far more significant uplifts across the board this is important as it's going to hugely increase the consistency of the frame rates you see and reduces the number of drops and stuttering within gameplay in alen weight 2 for example the frame rates were very similar with a percentage change of around about 2% on the 98 00 x3d versus the 7800 x3d all of this data is fresh data by the way so the CPUs have both been tested in the exact same config with the same Ram same motherboard same bios and same Windows versions now in Apex Legends we were pretty much hidden the 300 FPS frame rate cap so we can kind of discard that result while in Call of Duty's Black Ops 6 we saw a minimal performance increase for the 9800 x3d of around 1.2% with 236 versus 233 frames per second the Improvement in 1% loads is more pronounced to moveing from 127 to over 138 frames per second cyberpunk was a little more pronounced with 13 FPS or so difference at 1080p High settings all of these are rasterization numbers by the way so no R tracing no dlss no FSR no frame generation none of that straight raster while fortnite gave us the biggest difference here at 1080p we actually saw around 10% Improvement on the 9800 x3d versus the 7800 x3d that came before it again the Improvement in 1% lows was strong here in fact particularly so moving up from 180 frames per second on the 7800x 3D and RTX 490 to 1% low of 258 FPS on this new x3d chip now on the other end of the spectrum we also ran a load of 4K numbers and here we actually saw a fairly mixed bag when it came to the frame rates now in Allen weight 2 for example we saw a few more frames per second around 4% uplift from 71 to 74 cyberpunk 277 was very minimal with virtually the same frame rate between the two fortnite had again a more pronounced increase of around 8 .8% give or take in frame rate while Apex and Black Ops were actually worse now in amd's own press materials they actually show the 9800x 3D doesn't necessarily beat out the 7800x 3D in all circumstances but from our testing we can discern the 9800x 3D is a faster chip but not by a great margin the 9800x 3D still provides phenomenal performance and at the price point which AMD have kept under $500 and well under £500 it represents a pretty good value bet if you're looking for a gaming CPU and a gaming CPU alone now I would have liked to have seen larger generational performance uplifts between the 7800 x3d and 9800 x3d and if the rumors on the Great Vine the AMD sort of maybe not rush this CPU out but brought it out far earlier than they would have otherwise intended as a response sort of to Intel Core Ultra that has to be viewed as a bit of a mistake because well core Ultra is not really boding much of a threat to well anyone the 9800 X 3D though is a faster CPU and if you want the best of the best especially for those Next Generation topend gpus which will again put more emphasis on a bottl neck that CPU side rather than GPU side this might just be the chip to pick up even if as I say the generational performance uplift isn't quite as great as what I would have hoped\n"