Industry reviewers have published benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor. Sales of the chip begin on January 29th. It costs $499, $30 more than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The only difference between the two chips is the Ryzen 7 9850X3D's 400 MHz higher maximum clock rate—5,6 GHz versus 5,2 GHz for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D still offers eight Zen 5 cores and 16 threads, as well as 64 MB of additional 3D V-Cache, bringing the total L3 cache to 96 MB. Increasing the maximum clock rate to 5600 MHz didn't provide any significant performance gains.
According to TechPowerUp, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D's application performance is slightly improved compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D—by approximately 2,2% on average. When looking at individual tests, the largest gains are seen in single-threaded workloads, where the actual performance increase is 5–7%. In multi-threaded applications, performance is virtually identical to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D's gaming performance is impressive, outperforming all other processors on the market, including the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. However, the performance gap is small, at best 2,5%, and only 0,5% at 4K resolution, according to TechPowerUp.
With TechPowerUp's findings agrees Well-known enthusiast and head of Thermal Grizzly, Roman "der8auer" Hartung, found a 4% difference in his gaming tests between the two processors.
Roman notes that along with performance, the processor's power consumption also increased, especially in graphically intensive games like Cyberpunk 2077. There, the increase was 25%—from approximately 97 W for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to 121 W for the new model. At the same time, in some scenarios, the difference in power consumption between the two processors was within 1%.
Tom's Hardware reports an average 3,3% performance boost and 30% higher power consumption compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
Source: 3dnews.ru
