AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Linux Performance

First up in today's 7800X3D launch-day testing was a brief look at the Linux gaming performance.

HITMAN 3 running on Linux via Steam Play was experiencing some very nice uplift over the rest of the Ryzen 7000 series processors and firmly ahead of the Core i9 13900K. The 7800X3D has a much larger uplift than the 7900X3D and 7950X3D processors, presumably due to the higher boost frequency and not having to worry about any frequency/cache scheduling issues under Linux.

Not only was the Ryzen 7 7800X3D the fastest for HITMAN 3 on Linux but it was delivering the great results at significantly less power than the other Zen 4 processors. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was also pulling less than half the power consumption rate of the Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake processor.

At 1440p, HITMAN 3 continued to show off exceptionally well for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

F1 22 running on Linux via Steam Play on this Ubuntu 23.04 installation wasn't seeing any uplift from the 7900X3D/7950X3D processors over the non-X3D parts, but with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D there is clear uplift to enjoy. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was matching the performance of the Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake flagship processor.

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was pulling less power than all of the other tested processors and still around half that of the Core i9 13900K it was competing with in these Linux gaming tests.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or X-Plane 12 with their Vulkan renderer on Linux wasn't seeing any real benefit from 3D V-Cache. But long story short, for more of the Steam Play games I am now seeing more clear benefits from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D than I was with the 7900X3D/7950X3D where only half the cores have access to the large L3 cache. With many games on Linux not scaling well past 8 cores, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D could certainly be an interesting choice for Linux gamers. I'll have more Linux gaming benchmarks of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D to share shortly.