AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D: $329 MSRP The new AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D's configuration is similar to the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but with lower base and boost clocks and a lower price that should make it more accessible to gamers. Great For Gaming Low Power Plenty Of Headroom To Tweak Relatively Affordable Similar Price To 12-Core 9900X Low MT Scores Per Dollar During Computex last month, AMD made a couple of CPU related announcements. The first was that the popular Ryzen 7 5800X3D had been updated and re-introduced in a 10th Anniversary Edition for gamers still rocking a socket AM4 motherboard. The second introduced the new Ryzen 7 7700X3D we’ll be showing you here today. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D shares a similar single-CCD, 8-core design to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but with a tweaked voltage and frequency curve and a somewhat lower price point, which should bode well in the market conditions we're in currently. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is ultimately one of the more affordable ways for gamers to experience an AMD “X3D” processor with 3D V-Cache on the current socket AM5 platform. That’s an important consideration, because socket AM5 will continue on for at least another generation—the Ryzen 7 7700X3D would allow someone to build (or upgrade) a socket AM5 system now, and be ready for next-generation Zen 6-based processors in the future. But that’s only if the Ryzen 7 7700X3D is a good fit for someone’s build and budget. Let’s get to some particulars and then take the chip for a spin through some benchmarks to see if AMD's new Ryzen 7 7700X3D makes sense... AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Specifications And Feature Comparison Find The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D @ Amazon Here’s a quick feature and spec comparison between the Ryzen 7 7700X3D and 7800X3D. As you can see, the two chips are basically the same—they share the same core and cache configurations, voltages, TDP, etc. The only differences are a 200MHz drop in the base clock and a more substantial 500MHz reduction to the max boost clock. That 500M...