AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache
Those wishing to go through all the collected benchmark data in full can find it via this result page for all the individual power and performance data in full. In the coming days will be more benchmarks including looking at other areas of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D such as for Linux gaming. With this initial article being focused on more productivity/technical computing workloads given the relevance to Linux enterprises and so many of the (Windows) launch day reviews just focusing on gaming.
For the geo mean of the more than 300 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D surpassed the Core i9 14900K and landed just behind the prior gen Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.34x the performance. Or compared to the original Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3D V-Cache processor, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.82x the performance. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D was also running at 1.18x the performance of the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake 14-core processor. Compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D offered 9% better performance across the wide swath of benchmarks conducted.
👁 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU power consumption
On average the Ryzen 7 9800X3D was consuming around ~100 Watts during the span of benchmarks conducted with a recorded peak of 162 Watts, inline with the 160 Watt default TDP rating.
👁 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D slide details
While not all workloads can benefit greatly from 3D V-Cache, there are many productivity/HPC/technical computing workloads that can. AMD is heavily promoting the Ryzen 7 9800X3D as a great gaming processor, which it is, but it's also much more than just a great gaming CPU. The continued strong showing of AMD 3D V-Cache across this mix of Linux workloads continues to build my excitement for further Ryzen 9000X3D CPU additions and then 2nd Gen 3D V-Cache on the AMD EPYC Turin side should be extremely interesting.
From this testing it was also great to see the ASUS ROG STRIX X670E GAMING WIFI motherboard still holding up well with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and delivering similar performance to the ASRock X870E Taichi. If using an existing AM5 / X670E motherboard, it's just important to update your system BIOS prior to installing the new CPU.
Thanks to AMD for supplying the Ryzen 7 9800X3D review kit for launch day testing on Phoronix. The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 2nd gen 3D V-Cache is performing well on Linux for a variety of workloads and at $479 USD is an interesting 8-core / 16-thread desktop CPU option. The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes on sale tomorrow, 7 November.
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