Binning results from 13 Ryzen 7 9850X3Ds prove that the CPU is purely an overclocked 9800X3D from the factory — 9850X3D looks similar to 9800X3D, just with higher voltages

A CPU enthusiast has published early binning results for the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D, confirming that the chip is virtually an overclocked 9800X3D and is using higher voltages to achieve the chip's 400MHz higher boost clock. Binning data of 13 9850X3D's was published by sugi0lover on the overclock.net forums, showing precise default clock speed and vcore results across the different samples. Hardwareluxx also reported on this same data, but mentioned its own 9800X3D results, showcasing a large difference in core voltage between the two models.

The overclock.net user published a variety of specs, showing the exact behavior of each of the 13 9850X3D's, ranging from maximum memory speed stability to infinity fabric clocks, CPU voltage, and core multipliers. The slowest chip of the 13 managed a maximum single core boost clock of 5.611GHz, while using the most amount of voltage of the bunch; 1.348v. The chip also boasted a SP rating of 118.

The best chip of the 13 achieved a clock speed of 5.625GHz with a vcore of just 1.271v and a SP rating of 120. SP rating is a term Asus coined that determines a chip's average silicon quality. This feature is exclusive to Asus; motherboards with the feature use a CPU's voltage curve to clock speed ratio to determine the chip's SP value.

Going back to the 9850X3Ds, virtually all but the slowest chip was able to achieve a 5.625GHz clock speed. The average vcore values for all of the chips hover around 1.31v, with the highest power-consuming chip of the bunch requiring 1.355v to hit 5.6GHz.

On the memory and fabric side of things, all 9850X3D's were capable of achieving 2200MHz on the Infinity Fabric, with the best three achieving 2233MHz respectively. Stable memory speeds for all 13 chips ranged between 8200MT/s for the worst chip and 8600MT/s for the best chips. It's worth mentioning that the best-performing chips on memory and Infinity Fabric did not have the best core voltages or clock speeds.

This data becomes especially interesting when looking at HardwareLuxx's results. Hardwareluxx references its own 9800X3D review data in its own articles covering the same 13 9850X3Ds. Its 9800X3D only needed 1.119v to hit its maximum advertised boost clock. Compared to the best of the 13 9850X3Ds, the 9800X3D uses 13% more voltage. Compared to the worst 9850X3D, it consumes a whopping 21% more voltage than Hardwareluxx's 9800X3D.

This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, but this comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, in general, consumes more power than the 9800X3D. Could there be some niche cases where the best Ryzen 7 9850X3D with the best silicon quality uses the same or lower voltage than the world's worst-performing Ryzen 7 9800X3D? Possibly. But that appears to be a very rare occurrence (if at all).

This data confirms that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is not just a better binned 9800X3D, but it is also basically a factory overclocked 9800X3D due to the higher voltages required on the 13 samples to achieve peak boost clocks. We saw this behavior in our own testing, where our 9850X3D sample was consuming 30% more power for a small 3% average performance improvement over the 9800X3D.

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