AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D: the best gaming CPU

AMD ’s new $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to improve day-to-day tasks and creative workloads.

In Geekbench 6, the new chip is around 20 percent faster in both single-threaded and multithreaded tests.

In Cinebench 2024 , it's nearly 16 percent faster for the single- thread test and a massive 27 percent faster on the multithreadsed workload.

For the first time on an X3D chip, AMD is even supporting over-over-boosting.

AMD 's 9800X3D is around 8 percent faster in games than Intel ’s latest Core Ultra 9 285K.

Gigabyte offers an X3D turbo mode on the Aorus Master , which boosts single-thread performance by tuning, unifying CPU core distribution, and balancing some of the hardware power.

In games like Forza Motorsport 2023 and Cyberpunk 2077, frame rates were nearly 14 percent higher than the 7800x3D.

You sacrifice multithreaded performance in creator workloads if you have this mode enabled.

AMD has established an even more impressive gap over Intel in gaming performance.

The 9800X3D chip is still far behind Intel ’s power-hungry 14900 K during creator workloads.