AMD's yet-to-be-released Ryzen 7 9850X3D recently recorded its first running score in PassMark, allowing us to see the preliminary performance comparison between this new chip and the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D.The data shows that the PassMark score of 9850X3D is 41840, compared with the average score of 39962 of 9800X3D, the overall performance is improved by about 4.7%.
In PassMark's single-thread test, the 9850X3D's score also reached 4632. Compared with the 9800X3D's 4425, the improvement was also about 4.7%.
In terms of specifications, the 9850X3D is an 8-core 16-thread processor based on the Zen 5 architecture. It is equipped with a 96MB L3 cache and increases the maximum acceleration frequency to 5.6 GHz, which is higher than the 5.2GHz of the 9800X3D.The magnitude of the improvement in running scores is basically consistent with the increase in this frequency.
It is worth noting that this improvement is smaller than the architectural generational leap (about 17%-18%) brought by the previous generation 7800X3D to 9800X3D, which shows that 9850X3D is more like a small optimization and frequency increase.
Still, with its faster clock speed, the 9850X3D is expected to continue to maintain the AMD X3D series' lead on the gaming performance charts.