AMD is bringing two X3D CPUs to market in a bid to combat rising component prices. The long-rumored Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition arrives next month with a recommended retail price of $349, $100 less than the CPU launched for more than four years ago. For AM5 users, AMD has the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, which is a downclocked version of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D (still one of the best CPUs for gaming) with eight Zen 4 cores, launching at $329.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is, surprisingly, the star of the show. At the beginning of the year, AMD shared first with Tom’s Hardware its plans to bring back AM4 options as prices on DDR5 for the AM5 platform continue to rise. Supply of AMD’s sought-after AM4 options, such as the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, have largely dried up, with resellers demanding as much as $800 for the CPU.
The specs remain unchanged, at least based on what AMD has shared so far. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition comes with eight Zen 3 cores and 16 threads, a maximum 4.5 GHz boost clock, 100 MB of combined L2 and L3 cache, and a 105W TDP. Just like the original version, the multiplier is locked, so you can't manually overclock the chip. It also uses AMD's first-gen 3D V-Cache design, with the SRAM placed on top of the cores.
AMD shared a handful of benchmarks comparing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to older AM4 CPUs. Compared to the Ryzen 7 2700X, there’s a 115% uplift; against the Ryzen 7 3700X, a 47% jump. And against the base Ryzen 7 5800X, there’s an average 16% uplift. These are all familiar numbers for us at this point. We’ve seen the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in action for more than four years, and even with first-gen 3D V-Cache, it’s one fast gaming CPU.
Interestingly, AMD also compared the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to the Core i9-14900K, both running with DDR4 memory at 3600 MT/s. AMD claims the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is 10% faster on average at 1080p. We’ll have to run back some benchmarks to verify these claims; with DDR5, at least, even the Core i9-13900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D based on our CPU benchmark hierarchy.
AMD says the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition will be available for sale on June 25, starting at $349. In addition to a new box with a 10th anniversary logo, the chip comes bundled with a Carbice Ice Pad, a thermal pad created with carbon nanotubes that’s normally only available through CyperPowerPC’s build configurator.
New (or at least newer) for AMD is the Ryzen 7 7700X3D. As the name suggests, this is an 8-core / 16-thread chip using 3D V-Cache and the Zen 4 architecture. It’s a downclocked version of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, sporting the same TDP, number of cores, and total amount of cache, just with slightly tweaked clock speeds.
The base clock is down from 4.2 GHz on the Ryzen 7 7800X3D to 4 GHz on the 7700X3D, and the boost clock tops out at 4.5 GHz (5 GHz for the 7800X3D). We’ve seen this playbook from AMD before with the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, rereleasing an older CPU with a worse bin at a lower price. And given the state of component pricing right now, that’s not a bad thing.
| Row 0 - Cell 0 | Ryzen 7 7700X3D | Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 8 / 16 |
Arch | Zen 4 X3D | Zen 4 X3D |
Base / Boost Clock (GHz) | 4.0 / 4.5 | 4.2 / 5.0 |
Cache (L2 + L3) | 104 MB | 104 MB |
TDP (W) | 120 | 120 |
AMD didn’t share any performance data for the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, though we’ve asked the company if it has any broad performance claims for the new chip; the company says we should see more near launch. We expect the chip to perform largely the same as the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, however. With X3D CPUs, in particular, even large jumps in clock speed amount to very little extra performance in games, as you can read about in our Ryzen 7 9850X3D review.
Performance for the Ryzen 7 7700X3D is important, as it’s being flanked by two other excellent gaming CPUs around the same price. From AMD’s camp, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D is $230 and provides 95% of the gaming performance of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D on average; the Ryzen 7 7700X3D will likely slot somewhere in between. From Intel’s side, there’s the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at the same price as the Ryzen 7 7700X3D. Intel is still about 10% off the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in games, but it’s more than twice as fast in application performance.
The Ryzen 7 7700X3D arrives after the Ryzen 7 5800X3D on July 16, starting at $329. Assuming similar gaming performance as the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, that’s not a bad price. Although the lowest sale price for the 7800X3D is technically $320, the CPU has almost exclusively sold for above $350, sale or not.
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