AMD’s Ryzen X3D chips are a mighty bunch thanks to its additional cache, which significantly outperforms regular Ryzen chips and beats the top Intel chip at a fraction of the power (and cost). However, there’s one limitation that comes with this perk: overclocking is restricted to avoid damaging the sensitive cache layer. However, that will soon change with Ryzen 9000X3D, according to Wccftech’s report.
Overclocking Returns For Ryzen 9000X3D
The original 3D V-Cache chip from AMD was the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which has no overclocking capability aside from memory overclocking. The chipmaker reasoned that the additional cache layer are sensitive to voltages, hence it is locked down to prevent damage to the chip. However, improvements on the design was made to its successor, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, enabled some degree of overclocking via Curve Optimizer, Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO), as well as EXPO memory overclocking.
According to the publication, the Ryzen 9000X3D will feature full overclocking support, though it’s unclear what improvements has been made to enable this. It is presumed that the 3D V-Cache design has been optimized, though some form of guardrails might still be present to prevent damages, as Intel has learned it the hard way. AMD has officially hinted “some really, really cool updates to the X3D,” so this might be what the chipmaker is hinting at.
This would be good news for those who want to squeeze more performance out of this chip – while Ryzen X3D chips has been powerful in games, it’s not always been the case. Some games that rely less on cache see limited benefit, and sometimes performance is worse than regular counterpart as clock speeds are sacrificed to account for the power demands of the cache.
Pokdepinion: This should give them more advantage over Intel’s flagships.
