February 28th and April 6th, For $699/$599/$499

AMD today announced the release date and price of its highly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series processors.Aimed primarily at gamers, the company’s first Ryzen 7000 processors with L3 V-Cache start rolling out on his February 28th^th, when the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D launched for $699 and $599 respectively. This will be followed by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D launching on his 6th April for $449.^th.

The Ryzen 7000X 3D chip, which was first heavily announced (and teased long before) at AMD’s CES 2023 keynote, is AMD’s 2nd generation consumer chip featuring the company’s new 3D stacked V-Cache tech. will be V-Cache allows AMD to stack a 64MB L3 cache die on top of the existing CCD, expanding the total L3 capacity of the Zen 3/4 CCD from 32MB to 96MB. Also, for a multi-CCD design such as the Ryzen 9 7950X, his total L3 cache pool across the chip would be 128MB.

After successfully trialling the technology in the consumer space with AMD’s original Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which was released in Spring 2022 and received critical acclaim, AMD is rolling out a wider range of Ryzen chips with V-Cache for this generation. We have developed a lineup. This includes not only his Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 8 cores which is the direct successor to the 5800X3D, but also a chip that employs multiple CCDs for the first time. These are the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D which offer 12 and 16 CPU cores respectively.

Interestingly, AMD went with a non-uniform design for these multi-CCD parts. Instead of providing V-Cache for both CCDs, AMD equips only one of the CCDs with an extra L3 cache. The other CCD remains a plain Zen 4 CCD with an integrated 32MB of L3 cache. The unbalanced design not only allows AMD to control the cost of the technology, which is still relatively expensive to implement, but also allows AMD to offer near the best of both worlds for its multi-CCD parts. The Zen 4 CCD with V-Cache offers 6 or 8 CPU cores backed by a massive L3 pool for tasks that would benefit from larger cache sizes. Use higher clocks for pure throughput workloads that don’t benefit from the extra cache.

Like the original 5800X3D, AMD is targeting these chips specifically for gamers. Because the complex and heavy dataset nature of video games often benefits from having an extra he L3 cache on hand. The 5800X3D was about 15% faster than his regular Ryzen counterpart, depending on the game (at least without GPU limitations). This time around, AMD has been a bit conservative in its comparisons to its regular Ryzen 7000 chips, so the only official performance numbers available from AMD are comparing the chip to his 5800X3D. Instead, a 15% improvement is a reasonable baseline given that the cache size hasn’t changed in the previous gen, but we’ll have to take a closer look at the final chip to see if the additional L3 cache is an improvement. must be confirmed. As good for Zen 4 as it is for Zen 3.

Back at its CES 2023 keynote, AMD announced the 2.5 specs for the chip, as well as a detailed February launch date. With today’s announcement, AMD has finally filled in the remaining details, confirming that only part of the product stack will have its February launch date.

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As previously mentioned, both the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D will launch on February 28th.^thThe 16-core 7950X3D will launch at a price of $699 while the 12-core 7900X3D will launch at $599. At current market prices, this equates to around a $100-$150 premium over the chip’s normal counterpart, with the 7950X retailing for approx. $583and the 7900X is about $444The price of AMD’s top AM5 chip has dropped considerably since its launch in 2022, so the new X3D SKUs will come at similar launch prices to non-V-Cache chips. To put it another way, in September you’ll get a 16-core 7950X for $699, while in February the same chip will have an additional 64MB of L3 cache.

Other than benchmarks, the only detail we don’t yet know about the 7950X3D and 7900X3D at this point is the clock speed of the CCD with V-Cache. The turbo clock speeds cited by AMD are for vanilla CCDs, so it’s unclear how much the V-Cache CCD’s clock speeds have been reduced. We can see that the top clock speed for that part is only 5.0GHz. So we expect the same for his V-Cache CCD in Ryzen 9 parts.

Speaking of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, we finally have the full specs for AMD’s simplest X3D part. Back in January, AMD didn’t lock down the base clock speeds for this part, but as of today, he finally got an answer of 4.2GHz. The chip can then be turbocharged to 5.0GHz as mentioned above.

The cheapest of the Z3D parts, the $449 7800X3D, also lags behind the group, with the chip not launching until April 6th.^thAMD hasn’t explained the release date gap, but it’s reasonable to assume that AMD is prioritizing assembly and shipping of the more expensive Ryzen 9 SKUs.In any case, at the current street price, the 7800X3D is $299 Assuming these prevailing prices hold through April, the 7700X is 50% more expensive. This happens to be the same price as the 5800X3D launched so AMD technically holds the line here but the price cuts for the rest of the Ryzen 7000 lineup make the standard chip very much on a price/performance basis It emphasizes that it has become competitive in Japan.

In any case, we’ll have more details on AMD’s first V-Cache-equipped Zen 4 chips later this month. Another major factor driving performance is the Windows thread scheduler. Since this is AMD’s first asymmetric Ryzen CPU, it’s up to Windows and AMD’s chipset drivers to decide which CCD on the 7900X3D/7900X3D to put threads on. So for this month’s launch, AMD’s hardware and software offerings should be in sync for AMD to make a good first impression.