AMD: New Ryzen 9000 CPUs Won't Beat Ryzen 7000X3D Chips in Games

The new AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs won't beat the existing Ryzen 7000X3D chips with 3D V-Cache in games. The company confirmed this to Tom's Hardware. In that area, the CPUs will come closer to the X3D variants than previous generations.

Donny Woligroski, AMD's senior manager for technical marketing, tells Tom's Hardware that the Ryzen 7000X3D processors will still be the fastest AMD CPUs for gaming. These chips from the previous generation will therefore beat the upcoming Ryzen 9000 processors in that area, the employee confirms.

Woligroski does say that the new CPUs are closer to the previous X3D chips than was previously the case. “A 7800X3D would indeed be faster than the 9700X, but perhaps not as much as you would expect,” he says. Woligroski does not share any concrete performance figures. With the Ryzen 9000 announcement, AMD also did not publish gaming figures comparing the new chips with the previous Ryzen 7000X3D chips.

The marketing manager also states that the upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D processors will receive an improved version of 3D V-Cache, although he does not share what exactly that means in that area either. The manufacturer introduced a second generation 3D V-Cache in last year's Ryzen 7000X3D processors with a significantly higher bandwidth than the stacked L3 cache in the first Ryzen 5000X3D chips.

AMD announced its Ryzen 9000 processors at Computex in early June. The chips will be based on a new Zen 5 architecture and, according to the company, offer an IPC improvement of an average of 16 percent. In many cases they also have a lower TDP than their previous Ryzen 7000 series. AMD previously confirmed the arrival of Zen 5 processors with 3D V-Cache, although it is not yet known when exactly that will happen. According to unconfirmed rumors, this will be Ryzen 9000X3D series already introduced in September.