The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a gaming powerhouse and is probably the best processor release of the year amid a host of fairly underwhelming releases. It's not perfect, and I don't like the increased power use or the increase in price,

AMD’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 7 9800X3D is finally here, and I’ll tell you right away that it’s one of the best processors you can buy. It introduces AMD’s next-gen 3D V-Cache tech, and it dominates in games. But there’s still plenty of ...

AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a monster gaming CPU, but there's one other chip that delivers similar gaming performance for less money.

It looks like we were right! (Not that it was an earth-shattering achievement of prognostication, to be fair.) As it turns out, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a smash hit right out of the gate, and nearly every major US retailer that sells it — including Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, and Micro Center — is out of stock one day after the CPU’s launch.

AMD has dominated PC gaming CPU performance for more than two years. Its X3D chips have provided a boost that Intel has been unable to match, and its new $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to not only improve gaming performance but also day-to-day tasks and creative workloads.

And so, the 6.9 GHz overclock that we saw yesterday from the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has now been surpassed by Taiwanese overclocker TSAIK using an MSI MEG X870E Godlike motherboard with a number 1 position on the HWBOT leaderboard for the chip's CPU frequency (via Videocardz).

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor has 8 CPU cores [File] | Photo Credit: AMD AMD has launched the Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor as part of the Ryzen 9000 series, with the Zen 5 architecture,