AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators

AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-7-9800X3D

[avis]

An eight-core CPU at just $500.

Yay! Let AMD fans again celebrate how competitive Intel's ARL has turned out to be. Maybe now you'll realize you don't want any one vendor to trump everyone else because corporations are not your friends, they will start gouging as soon as they can.

[ddriver]

What the hell is "Linux creators"?

[V1tol]

Please AMD, I expect 9950X3D to have two 3D chiplets instead of one.

An eight-core CPU at just $500.

Yay! Let AMD fans again celebrate how competitive Intel's ARL has turned out to be. Maybe now you'll realize you don't want any one vendor to trump everyone else because corporations are not your friends, they will start gouging as soon as they can.

You can always support Intel with their 20 cores 265K priced for 400$. Or buy a truck of used Xeons from Aliexpress for the same price. At least you have a choice today unlike Intel domination days when any >4 core CPU was either pathetic FX or 1000$+ for 6+ core on HEDT platform.

[numacross]

An eight-core CPU at just $500.

Yay! Let AMD fans again celebrate how competitive Intel's ARL has turned out to be. Maybe now you'll realize you don't want any one vendor to trump everyone else because corporations are not your friends, they will start gouging as soon as they can.

Ryzen 7 9700X, another eight-core AMD CPU from the same generation launched at $359 and is currently retailing on newegg for $324.74.
9800X3D is a specialized CPU that benefits certain workloads, and some people are willing to pay more for it. This is the third generation of X3D so apparently there's a market.

[skeevy420]

As a Linux gamer, this isn't that exciting of an update over the 7800X3D. I mean that from the position of I'm playing No Man's Sky and my GPU is at 90-100% while my CPU is between 5% and 25%. My CPU is clearly good enough. My GPU, a 6700 XT, isn't. If I'm gonna be spending over $450 on a new PC component it'll be for a new GPU.

It's not that this is a bad CPU. It's just not exciting when compared to its last gen model. If I was a gamer looking to upgrade from AM4 and money wasn't a factor then I'd be all over this.

For the most part, I don't understand the point of the 9000 series AMD CPUs. I suppose it's because the performance gains with Moore's Law have transitioned from exponential gains to logarithmic gains.

[skeevy420]

What the hell is "Linux creators"?

People who are going to buy the 9*50X3D versions because, unlike gamers, they actually need more than 8 cores.

Linux creators are folks like ptr1337 compiling CachyOS for us.

[ptr1337]

People who are going to buy the 9*50X3D versions because, unlike gamers, they actually need more than 8 cores.

Linux creators are folks like ptr1337 compiling CachyOS for us.

Our current main buildserver using currently a 7950X3D from Hetzner, and the second one a 7700 .
Even tough, the 7950X3D Server made a lot of problems, in terms of the CPU. We had several failed compilations due it, one CPU did fully brick randomly and after the third one we have now since 6 months a stable CPU. Dont ask me, which problems these CPUs made.

Anyways, back to topic:
I dont really know, what I should think about these CPUs.
8% more FPS in average, across the shared benchmarks, while having a 16% IPC Uplift and 10% higher clock speed.

Likely, the IO Die is simply still the limiting factor, as it is on Base Zen5.

[sobrus]

As a Linux gamer, this isn't that exciting of an update over the 7800X3D. I mean that from the position of I'm playing No Man's Sky and my GPU is at 90-100% while my CPU is between 5% and 25%. My CPU is clearly good enough. My GPU, a 6700 XT, isn't. If I'm gonna be spending over $450 on a new PC component it'll be for a new GPU.

It's not that this is a bad CPU. It's just not exciting when compared to its last gen model. If I was a gamer looking to upgrade from AM4 and money wasn't a factor then I'd be all over this.

For the most part, I don't understand the point of the 9000 series AMD CPUs. I suppose it's because the performance gains with Moore's Law have transitioned from exponential gains to logarithmic gains.

This. It amazes me how these "havily CPU bound" games use 4 (out of 16) Zen3 cores in 800-2500Mhz range while running buttery smooth.
Maybe they are bound only on windows?

[Nempk]

As a Linux gamer, this isn't that exciting of an update over the 7800X3D. I mean that from the position of I'm playing No Man's Sky and my GPU is at 90-100% while my CPU is between 5% and 25%. My CPU is clearly good enough. My GPU, a 6700 XT, isn't. If I'm gonna be spending over $450 on a new PC component it'll be for a new GPU.

It's not that this is a bad CPU. It's just not exciting when compared to its last gen model. If I was a gamer looking to upgrade from AM4 and money wasn't a factor then I'd be all over this.

For the most part, I don't understand the point of the 9000 series AMD CPUs. I suppose it's because the performance gains with Moore's Law have transitioned from exponential gains to logarithmic gains.

This cpu support OC, and the way the cache is placed is different from 5000 and 7000 cpu's.