February twenty eighth and April sixth, For $699/$599/$449
AMD at present has introduced the launch date and costs for its eagerly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D collection processors. Aimed primarily at avid gamers, the corporate’s first L3 V-Cache outfitted Ryzen 7000 processors will start rolling out on February 28th, when the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D go on sale for $699 and $599 respectively. This will probably be adopted up by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D a bit over a month later, when it goes on sale for $449 on April 6th.
First introduced to nice fanfare throughout AMD’s CES 2023 keynote (and teased nicely earlier than that), the Ryzen 7000X3D chips will probably be AMD’s second era of shopper chips using the corporate’s novel 3D stacked V-Cache expertise. V-Cache permits AMD to stack a 64MB L3 cache die on high of their current CCDs as a way to develop the overall L3 capability of a Zen 3/4 CCD, going from 32MB to 96MB. And within the case of multi-CCD designs such because the Ryzen 9 7950X, bringing the overall, chip-wide L3 cache pool to 128MB.
AMD Ryzen 7000X/X3D Collection Line-Up | |||||||
AnandTech | Cores Threads |
Base Freq |
Turbo Freq |
L3 Cache |
TDP | Worth (Avenue) |
Launch Date |
Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 16C / 32T | 4.2 GHz | 5.7 GHz | 128 MB | 120W | $699 | 02/28/23 |
Ryzen 9 7950X | 16C / 32T | 4.5 GHz | 5.7 GHz | 64 MB | 170W | $583 | – |
Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 12C / 24T | 4.4 GHz | 5.6 GHz | 128 MB | 120W | $599 | 02/28/23 |
Ryzen 9 7900X | 12C / 24T | 4.7 GHz | 5.6 GHz | 64 MB | 170W | $444 | – |
Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 8C / 16T | 4.2 GHz | 5.0 GHz | 96 MB | 120W | $449 | 04/06/23 |
Ryzen 7 7700X | 8C / 16T | 4.5 GHz | 5.4 GHz | 32 MB | 105W | $299 | – |
Ryzen 7 5800X3D | 8C / 16T | 3.4 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 96 MB | 105W | $323 | – |
Following the profitable trial of the expertise within the shopper house with AMD’s unique Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which was launched to constructive acclaim again within the spring of 2022, AMD has developed a wider lineup of V-Cache outfitted Ryzen chips for this era. This consists of not solely the 5800X3D’s direct successor, the 8 core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but in addition, for the primary time, chips using a number of CCDs. These are the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D, which can supply 12 and 16 CPU cores, respectively.
Curiously, AMD has gone for a non-homogenous design for these multi-CCD components – moderately than giving each CCDs V-Cache, AMD is just outfitting one of many CCDs with the additional L3 cache. The opposite CCD will stay a plain Zen 4 CCD, with its built-in 32MB of L3 cache. The unbalanced design, in addition to permitting AMD to regulate the prices of what’s nonetheless a comparatively costly expertise to implement, will permit AMD to supply one thing near the very best of each worlds for his or her multi-CCD components. The V-Cache outfitted Zen 4 CCDs will supply 6 or 8 CPU cores backed by the large L3 pool, for duties that profit from the bigger cache dimension, whereas the vanilla Zen 4 CCDs will probably be unencumbered by the V-Cache, permitting them to clock greater for pure throughput workloads that wouldn’t profit from the additional cache.
As with the unique 5800X3D, AMD is aiming these chips at avid gamers specifically, because the complicated, heavy-dataset nature of video video games means they typically profit from having extra L3 cache on-hand. The 5800X3D was, relying on the sport, round 15% sooner than its vanilla Ryzen counterpart – no less than as long as it wasn’t GPU restricted. AMD is being a bit extra coy this time round on making apples-to-apples comparisons towards their common Ryzen 7000 chips, so for now the one official efficiency figures accessible from AMD are pitting the chips towards the 5800X3D. In lieu of that, a 15% enchancment is an inexpensive baseline on condition that the cache sizes haven’t modified within the final era, however we’ll positively need to take a more in-depth have a look at the ultimate chips to see if the extra L3 cache is as useful to Zen 4 because it was for Zen 3.
Again at their CES 2023 keynote, AMD introduced the specs for two-and-a-half of the chips, in addition to an undetailed February launch date. With at present’s announcement, AMD is lastly filling in the remainder of the main points, in addition to confirming that solely a part of the product stack goes to make that February launch date.
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As beforehand famous, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D each launch on February 28th. The 16 core 7950X3D will hit the streets with a $699 price ticket, whereas the 12 core 7900X3D will intro at $599. At present avenue costs, this represents roughly a $100 to $150 premium over the chips’ common counterparts, with the 7950X promoting for round $583, and the 7900X promoting for round $444. Costs on AMD’s high AM5 chips have come down a good bit since their 2022 launch, so the brand new X3D SKUs are coming in at related launch costs as their non V-Cache counterparts. Put one other approach, whereas $699 would get you a 16 core 7950X in September, come February it is going to get you an identical chip with a further 64MB of L3 cache.
Apart from benchmarks, at this level the one element we don’t have on the 7950X3D and 7900X3D are the clockspeeds for the V-Cache outfitted CCDs. AMD’s quoted turbo clockspeeds are for the vanilla CCD, so it’s unclear simply how a lot clockspeeds have been lowered for the V-Cache CCD. However taking a touch from AMD’s sole single CCD X3D half, the 7800X3D, we see that half has a high clockspeed of simply 5.0GHz. So we’d count on one thing related for the V-Cache CCDs on the Ryzen 9 components.
Talking of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, we lastly have the complete specs on AMD’s most simple X3D half. Again in January AMD hadn’t locked down the bottom clockspeeds on this half, however as of at present we lastly have the reply: 4.2GHz. The chip will, in flip, have the ability to turbo as excessive as 5.0GHz as beforehand famous.
The most cost effective of the Z3D components, with a price ticket of $449, the 7800X3D may also be the laggard of the group, with the chip not launching till April 6th. AMD has not defined the hole in launch dates, nevertheless it’s affordable to imagine that AMD is prioritizing the meeting and transport of their costlier Ryzen 9 SKUs. In any case, at present avenue costs the 7800X3D will carry a $150 premium over the $299 7700X, making it a full 50% costlier, assuming these avenue costs maintain by April. This occurs to be the identical value the 5800X3D launched at, so AMD is technically simply holding the road right here, nevertheless it does underscore how value cuts on the remainder of the Ryzen 7000 lineup have made the usual chips very aggressive on a value/efficiency foundation.
In any case, we’ll have extra on AMD’s first V-Cache outfitted Zen 4 chips later this month. In addition to taking an in-depth have a look at the efficiency enhancements led to by the bigger L3 cache, the opposite main issue driving efficiency goes to be the Home windows thread scheduler. As that is AMD’s first uneven Ryzen CPU, it will likely be as much as Home windows and AMD’s chipset driver to determine which CCD to position threads on for the 7950X3D/7900X3D. So this month’s launch goes to require that AMD’s {hardware} and software program choices are in sync to ensure that the corporate to make first impression.