Reviews for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D have finally landed today, and early signs suggest that AMD’s latest gaming-tailored CPU could be the most successful product launch of the year.
AMD’s highly anticipated 9800X3D is set to launch tomorrow, 7th of November, with one goal – to eclipse the 7800X3D as the industry’s best gaming CPU. Well, that looks nailed on now, as tier-one publications lucky enough to get hold of early product samples are impressed, to say the least.
Many reviews are running headlines promoting the X3D’s ability to outperform the competition in gaming, with tag lines such as “obliterating the competition“, “The best gaming processor“, and “Devastating gaming performance” all being used. Gamer Nexus even ran a “RIP Intel” piece – which highlighted the 9800X3D’s dominance in a number of games vs the newly-released 285K – which, coincidentally, received a dreadful review.
Ryzen 7 9800X3D set to offer “devastating gaming performance”
Reviewers have pushed their 9800X3D reviews live today, and as many expected, it’s only more bad news for Intel. Top tech publications are praising AMD’s latest gaming CPU, calling it the “new king of gaming CPUs” – a damming headline for Intel’s desktop CPU prospects.
According to Gamer Nexus benchmarks, the 9800X3D offers a 23% uplift over the 285K in Dragon’s Dogma 2 when using the RTX 4090 at 1080p. It also boasted a 10% uplift in Rainbox Six Seige vs the same part, and 18% higher average framerates when playing Starfield at 1080p.
Overall, the story is very much the same across all top tech publications – the 9800X3D is far better than any Intel gaming CPU. We speculated that Intel had potentially handed AMD an entire generation of users after the lackluster performance of its 285K, and that’s now almost guaranteed, with reviews offering crushing evaluation when comparing it to Intel’s flagship. Intel will need to do something big next year to turn the tide.
