AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 Desktop Processor, 8 Cores & 16 Threads, Up to 5.2 GHz Max Boost Clock, Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics, 192GB Max Memory, Dual Channel, 96MB L3 Cache
- ‘Zen 5’ architecture, with 8 cores & 16 threads, delivering +~16% IPC uplift and great power efficiency
- Next gen 3D V-Cache Technology, 96MB L3 cache with better thermal performance vs. previous gen and allowing higher clock speeds, up to 5.2GHz!s
- Strong generational uplift in Gaming (~+8%) and even better multi-threaded Creator performance vs. 7800X3D (~+15%)
- 4nm process node for even better power/efficiency
- DDR5 6000 support (with OC for 8000+)
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Key specifications
- Series
- AMD Ryzen
- Cooling device
- Cooling device not included - processor only
- Cpu socket type
- AM5
- Number of cores
- 8-Cores
- Integrated graphics
- AMD Radeon
Details
- Shipping Weight
- 0.10 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 12.50 cm x 12.50 cm x 4.00 cm
- Core Family
- AMD
- Number of Threads
- 16
- L2 Cache
- 1 MB (per core)
- L3 Cache
- 96 MB (shared)
- Max Number of PCI Express Lanes
- 24
- TDP
- 120 W
- Manufacturing Technology
- 6 nm
- Virtualization Technology Support
- No
- Hyper Threading Support
- No
- ECC Memory Supported
- Yes
- Name
- AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D
- Family
- Ryzen
- Form Factor
- Desktops, Boxed Processor
- Market Segment
- Enthusiast Desktop
- AMD PRO Technologies
- No
- Consumer Use
- Yes
- Regional Availability
- Global
- Former Codename
- Granite Ridge AM5
- Architecture
- Zen 5
- # of CPU Cores
- 8
- Multithreading (SMT)
- Yes
- # of Threads
- 16
- Max. Boost Clock
- Up to 5.2 GHz
- Base Clock
- 4.7 GHz
- L1 Cache
- 640 KB
- Default TDP
- 120 W
- Processor Technology for CPU Cores
- TSMC 4nm FinFET
- Processor Technology for I/O Die
- TSMC 6nm FinFET
- Package Die Count
- 2
- Unlocked for Overclocking
- Yes
- AMD EXPO™ Memory Overclocking Technology
- Yes
- Precision Boost Overdrive
- Yes
- Curve Optimizer Voltage Offsets
- Yes
- AMD Ryzen™ Master Support
- Yes
- CPU Socket
- AM5
- Supporting Chipsets
- A620, X670E, X670, B650E, B650, X870E, X870, B840, B850
- CPU Boost Technology
- Precision Boost 2
- Instruction Set
- x86-64
- Supported Extensions
- AES, AMD-V, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX-plus, SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3, x86-64
- Thermal Solution (PIB)
- Not Included
- Recommended Cooler
- Liquid cooler recommended for optimal performance
- Max. Operating Temperature (Tjmax)
- 95°C
- OS Support
- Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition, Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
- Native USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) Ports
- 4
- Native USB 2.0 (480Mbps) Ports
- 1
- PCI Express® Version
- PCIe® 5.0
- Native PCIe® Lanes (Total/Usable)
- 28, 24
- NVMe Support
- Boot, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10
- System Memory Type
- DDR5
- Memory Channels
- 2
- Max. Memory
- 192 GB
- System Memory Subtype
- UDIMM
- Max Memory Speed
- 2x1R DDR5-5600, 2x2R DDR5-5600, 4x1R DDR5-3600, 4x2R DDR5-3600
- ECC Support
- Yes (Requires mobo support)
- Graphics Core Count
- 2
- Graphics Frequency
- 2200 MHz
- USB Type-C® DisplayPort™ Alternate Mode
- Yes
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Thomas M. Used for: More than a year
Cons
Wants a board with decent VRM cooling
Comment
Bought it as the last upgrade this AM5 board will need, and that has proven right. Nothing I play at 1440p is anywhere near CPU limited any more. The only thing I would flag is the power delivery expectation, my old B650 board ran the VRM hotter than I liked until I improved case airflow.
Amelia M. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Unbeatable frame time consistency in strategy and sim titles
Cons
Export and render times barely moved over my old twelve core
Comment
Roughly sixteen months in, used for gaming five nights a week and video work at weekends, so I have a decent sense of where it shines and where it does not. For games it is still the part I would buy. The cache gives you a floor under your frame times that no amount of clock speed does, and in the strategy titles I put the most hours into the difference against my old 12700K is not subtle. Idle sits at 40 with a tower cooler, load rarely goes past 75. Where it is only a four star part for me is everything else. Eight cores is eight cores, and my export times barely moved from the chip it replaced. If your machine does more than play games you are paying a premium for cache you will not use half the time. Know which side of that line you are on before you spend the money.
Rosie D. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Frame times in simulation games are in another league
Cons
Eight cores is the ceiling if you also render
Comment
Gaming most evenings and a fair bit of compiling during the day, and I have not once wished for more than eight cores. The thing worth saying to anyone comparing this against a twelve or sixteen core part is that for gaming the cache matters far more than the core count. At 1440p I am GPU limited in almost everything, and in the handful of titles that are not, this chip holds frame times flatter than anything I have owned. Simulation titles are the obvious winners, but even something like Baldur's Gate in a busy city stopped stuttering entirely. Thermally, fifteen months in, it is well behaved if you feed it a proper cooler. Mine sits at 45 idle and peaks around 78 under a long render, on a 240 AIO in a case with two intakes. Quiet with it, too.
Ivy S. Used for: Less than a month
Cons
Socket pins are in the board, so be careful seating it
Comment
The first thing that struck me was how little heat it makes compared to the 13700K it replaced. Same cooler, same case, and the fans no longer ramp when I load a big project. Gaming performance is the headline of course, and in the two flight sims I use it has taken the stutter out of dense scenery entirely. One warning for anyone coming from Intel: the AM5 socket has pins in the board, not the chip, so take your time seating it. Only three weeks in, but nothing so far suggests I will be writing a different review later.
Florence H. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Straight in, EXPO on, done
Cons
No cooler supplied
Comment
Dropped it into an X870 board, enabled EXPO, and that was the whole afternoon. Games that used to hitch in built up areas now just run. No cooler in the box, mind.
Sophie F. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Fourteen months on and the 1% lows in games are still the best I have had
Cons
You have to buy a cooler on top
Comment
Under a 360 AIO this thing lands exactly where the reviews said it would. Gaming is where the extra cache shows itself, my 1% lows in Flight Sim and Tarkov steadied up in a way no memory tuning ever managed on the 5800X. It idles around 38 and sits in the low seventies under an all core load, which for an eight core part pulling this little from the wall is genuinely impressive. A year and a bit of that now, and the temperatures have if anything settled a degree or two since it was new.
Sophie H. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
The integrated Radeon let me build and update before the GPU turned up
Comment
My honest summary is that it made my graphics card the problem again, which is exactly what you want from a CPU upgrade. Everything I play at 1440p now runs into the GPU wall rather than the processor. The 1% lows are the number that changed most, up by a third in the two open world games I measured before and after. It runs cool enough on a mid range air cooler that I have never heard it, and the integrated Radeon meant I could get the machine posting and updated before the graphics card even arrived! Nine months of that and the only maintenance has been blowing the dust out of the cooler.
Henry S. Used for: 1–3 months
Comment
Upgraded from a 5600X and the jump in the games I actually play has been bigger than the benchmark charts suggested. Anno and Stellaris late game turns are roughly half what they were, and the 3D cache is clearly doing the heavy lifting there rather than raw clock speed. Two things stop this being five stars. The first is that nothing comes in the box, so on top of the chip you are buying a cooler as well, and this part wants a decent one. The second is the platform around it. My board needed a BIOS update before it would post, which meant borrowing an older CPU from a mate for an afternoon. Neither is really the processor's fault, but a first time builder should know what they are walking into. Eight weeks in and neither has bothered me since.
