PC gaming enthusiasts shopping for a new CPU for their gaming rig know to look for a chip that contains three characters – X3D. Far from just another marketing gimmick, this marks the presence of the stacked 3D V-Cache. This cache is the ‘secret sauce’ that has made AMD Ryzen processors with that X3D suffix highly sought after by gaming fans.
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
“A single-CCD chip with a more amenable price tag; a natural successor to change-the-game Ryzen 7 5800X3D.” – Read our review
Though the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D has since been overtaken in performance by the likes of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, it remains a very powerful and capable chip. An excellent choice for gaming, and no slouch when it comes to productivity. If you want to upgrade your AM5 platform, or you are collecting components for a new build, the offer available over at Amazon UK right now is very attractive.
On Amazon UK, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is available with 28 percent off the list price, bringing it down to a very affordable £323, which is very close to the lowest price ever. Though the American market isn’t quite as lucky, those in the USA can benefit from a 25 percent discount, which drops the price down to $338.
For this price, users take advantage of eight Zen cores and 16 threads, running on a 4.2GHz base clock, which can climb to a 5GHz boost clock. As mentioned previously, the X3D models have the advantage of a specialist 3D V-Cache and a total 96MB L3 cache. This allows the chip to handle large-footprint, intense graphical workloads easier.
Though it mostly manages middling performance when pitted against chips with higher clock frequencies in tests such as Cinebench R23, it is in gaming where it really shines. As you can see from our benchmark tests, the Ryzen 9 7800X3D manages an average framerate of 158fps at 1080p resolution in the famously demanding Cyberpunk 2077.
Likewise in Forza Motorsport, the results are equally impressive, delivering an average of 143fps at 1080p. Only the current reigning CPU champion, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, has beaten its numbers in Cyberpunk 2077, and it takes a Ryzen 9 to exceed those figures in Forza.
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is a premium processor available for a discount price. As such, you will need a decent motherboard and a capable AIO cooler in order to get the best out of it.
