Over the last few days, a number of leaks have been building up a kind of hype about the future Ryzen 9000X3Ds. These are said to be the Zen 5 bombshells we’ve been waiting for. AMD is even said to be saving a good one for its blue rival by announcing its Ryzen 9800X3D the day after the commercial launch of the Core Ultra 200S. While it’s often our job here to moderate harsh comments that accuse us of relaying vulgar rumours, let’s take a moment, if you don’t mind, to reflect and give you a position, a simple opinion. All these rumours may be close to the truth… or not. A few hours ago, slides were shown from a visit to the MSI factory in Shenzhen, which were the subject of an NDA signed by the participants (non-disclosure agreement with a specific date). overclocking.com was present during this visit and we received these slides but we were also able to talk live with some members and testers of the MSI lab.
Ryzen 9000X3D: questionable performance
If we have not mentioned the information gathered in Shenzhen, it is above all to respect the word given (and signed) to the partners who invited us, but also because many questions and doubts remained unanswered.
First of all, the story of the Ryzen 9000’s tdp still has a hard time getting across to us. Why was it so low at the launch of the classic range, and why has its increase, through the magic of the new bios, not revolutionised the performance of the current range? You’re going to tell me that we don’t care, because we’re talking about future Ryzen 9000X3Ds. But the addition of packaged cache, even if TSMC has obviously changed its methodology, is bound to have an impact on the TDP… And therefore limit the potential for frequency upgrades.
Finally, the graphics shown during this visit are now almost 3 weeks old. Were the CPUs in the MSI lab final versions? Did the bios have all the qualifications needed to run these new X3Ds at their best? Finally, the tests themselves, particularly in games, raise a few eyebrows… Far Cry in particular, which we know is always much more favourable to AMD overall. Three games in total is really not enough.
Finally, there’s cinebench, which shows a near equivalence between the Ryzen 9000 and the 9000X3D. Obviously, the graph comparing the old Ryzen 7000X3D to the 9000X3D is more flattering, no doubt due to AMD’s choice to distribute the cache in a better way.
NB: our illustration image has been created with an AI – no graphics card has been mistreated 🙂