In the Ryzen 9000 line of desktop CPUs, the difference in performance between the X3D and X models will be minimal
AMD Senior Technical Marketing Manager for Consumer Processors Donny Woligroski spoke about the Ryzen 9000X3D processors at Computex 2024, and there is an interesting point: according to him, the Ryzen 9000X3D will be fast, and clearly faster than competitors , but not much faster than regular CPUs in the series.
«In our tests, it is [Ryzen 9 9950X] faster than its competitors. X3D is still king of the hill, but by a much smaller margin than usual between X3D and non-X3D. So the 7800X3D will, yes, be faster than the 9700X, but perhaps not as much as you'd expect», — said an AMD representative.
Smaller performance difference between X3D and «non-X3D» may be due to the overall increase in CPU Zen 5 performance (IPC +16%), faster first and second level caches, as well as higher frequencies and better overclocking potential.