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This article covers AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D specs, power, features, architecture, pros, cons.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

AMD's hotly anticipated Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU will excel in gaming and video production with 3D V-Cache technology. Between enthusiast-tier CPUs and mainstream high-performance chips, the 9900X3D offers multi-core performance, high clock rates, and large cache for low-latency gaming.

Architecture

Zen 5-based 3D V-Cache

Process Node: TSMC Core IOD at 6nm + die at 4nm

Compatible sockets are AM5.

Twelve cores

24 threads

Cache:

L2: 1 MB/core

L3: 128 MB (4MB base + 64MB stacked (3D V-Cache))

In Ryzen 9 9900X3D, AMD's 3D V-Cache adds 64MB of L3 cache vertically to the CCD. Gaming and huge data applications benefit from its massive cache capacity and low latency.

Performance

High-performance consumers need a mix between single-threaded and multi-threaded efficiency, hence Ryzen 9 9900X3D was built.

Performance Multi-Core

The CPU's 12 cores and 24 threads are ideal for rendering, multitasking, and productivity.

Zen 5 IPC and cache improvements should boost performance over Ryzen 9 7900X3D.

Video Game Performance

In simulation, large-map, and open-world games, 3D V-Cache's 64MB cache is advantageous.

Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, and Microsoft Flight Simulator should have greater 1080p and 1440p FPS.

Ryzen 9 9900X3D may have 15–20% better cache-dependent gaming performance than non-3D.

Memory, Compatibility

RAM can be DDR5-6000 or more, depending on motherboard.

Dual memory channels.

Not official; motherboard implementation required. ECC Support: Yes

Native DDR5 and Infinity Fabric boost memory bandwidth.

AMD's Zen 5 design improves memory latency and bandwidth efficiency, making the Ryzen 9 9900X3D more versatile.

Power Use and Efficiency

The final specs may differ greatly from this estimate. TDP: ~120W

Zen 5 efficiency improvements enhance thermal design over the 7950X3D.

High-performance liquid or air cooling is recommended.

Despite its performance, the chip maintains power efficiency due to architectural and 4nm manufacturing advances. AMD remains committed to balancing computational power and environmental effect.

Key Features

3D V-Cache: AMD's trademark technology improves gaming and low-latency workloads.

PCIe 5.0 speeds communication with next-generation GPUs and NVMe SSDs.

DDR5, USB4, and a broader upgrade path make it future-ready for AM5.

Overclocking: Dedicated users manually modify voltages and frequencies to boost performance.

Game Advantage

Ryzen 9 9900X3D's layered L3 cache is suited for:

CS2, Valorant, and Fortnite have more steady and high frame rates than other esport games.

AAA games: Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield have faster scene loading, 1% lows, and less stutter.

Faster data access reduces motion delay in VR gaming.

For intense and competitive gaming, its huge cache and rapid clock speeds are ideal.

Efficiency, Power

Power scaling: Effective for light and moderate loads and intensive activities.

Advanced Power Management: Zen 5 minimises core parking and thread scheduling to save power.

Compared to Intel's competitors, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D uses less power and performs better on a wide range of tasks.

Advantages

A 128MB L3 cache improves gaming and caching.

The latest Zen 5 architecture improves IPC and efficiency.

Futureproofing with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5.

Ideal for broadcasters, pros, and gaming.

This compatibility allows AM5 motherboard users to upgrade without replacing their system.

Disadvantages

The high core count and 3D V-Cache raise the price.

Overkill for casual users and simple office or productivity needs.

Thermal constraints may hinder overclocking compared to non-3D devices.

Due to thermal design, boost clocks are slightly lower than non-3D versions.

Needs top-tier cooling to perform well under heavy loads.

Conclusion

Cache-rich responsiveness and high-core performance make the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D a performance powerhouse for artists and gamers. The chip's 3D V-Cache on top of its Zen 5 core design ensures good performance in multi-threaded and cache-sensitive games.

With the Ryzen 9 9900X3D, AMD has reaffirmed its leadership in gaming-first CPU innovation with features pros and fans will cherish for years.

AMD EPYC 4584PX and 4484PX processors, using 3D V-Cache Stacking to Double L3 Cache to 128 MB

AMD EPYC 4004 Series Processors

Data centers, supercomputers, hyperscalers, and large companies require performance and scalability. However, the AMD EPYC 4004 Series Processors target small businesses and dedicated hosting providers seeking economical entry-level server workload solutions.

These processors provide the speed, scalability, and reliability users expect from AMD EPYC while having low core counts, Thermal Design Power (TDP) as low as 65 watts, and affordable prices. This blog discusses workloads in this market segment and AMD EPYC 4004 processors’ performance benefits.

With boost rates up to 5.7 GHz, configurations ranging from 4 to 16 “Zen 4” cores over up to 2 Core Complex Dies (CCDs), and from 8 to 32 threads with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled, AMD EPYC 4004 Series Processors are a reliable option. Every AMD EPYC 4004 processor includes Gen 3 Infinity Fabric architecture, which supports up to 32 Gbps of die-to-die bandwidth, up to 192GB of DDR5-5200 RAM with ECC enabled, and up to 28 PCIe Gen 5 lanes from the processor, with additional lanes available based on system vendor design specifications.

AMD EPYC 4584PX

Technical Details

Each CCD offers up to 32 MB of shared L3 cache, for a total of up to 64 MB per processor. Packages including all of these are offered at low Thermal Design Power (TDP) levels of 65 to 170 watts.

The tried-and-true AM5 socket is used by all AMD EPYC 4004 variants, providing flexible deployment choices for a range of computing requirements. AMD 3D V-Cache die stacking technology is used by the 12-core AMD EPYC 4484PX and the 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX, doubling the maximum L3 cache to 128 MB per unit.

Only to the degree that a feature improves efficiency and performance is it beneficial. Small companies and hosting providers need strong systems that can handle demanding workloads while keeping acquisition and running costs under control. In addition to the simplified memory and I/O capabilities that discussed earlier, servers with high-performance AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs provide attractive cost-to-performance ratios across critical customer applications.

By comparing the performance and possible cost savings of 16-core 4th Gen AMD EPYC 4004 processors to those of the competition, let’s take a deeper look at the outstanding performance and value these processors provide to the market.

Utilization Examples

Broadly speaking, the AMD EPYC 4004 CPU is versatile, performant, and economical for a variety of computing workloads, from compute-intensive jobs to common business applications. Among the instances are:

General computing: Workloads including web serving, DNS administration, file sharing, printing, email hosting, messaging, CRM, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are well handled by AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs.

Web serving and e-commerce: Applications requiring scalability and dependability, such as web serving, are especially well-suited for AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs.

Applications requiring a lot of computation: AMD EPYC 4004 processors with 16 cores and 32 SMT threads speed up compilation and can handle demanding applications.

Gaming: Even the most demanding games run very well because to the powerful “Zen4” CPUs.

Processor Price

Performance and price must be balanced by small and medium-sized enterprises, especially when choosing processors for server construction. In this context, processor costs are an important factor to take into account. Here, it will use the following to demonstrate how much more affordable AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs are than those of their rivals.

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-core: $699, or around $43.69 per core

Intel Xeon E-2388G 8-core processor: $606 (about $75.75) per core

Intel Xeon E-2488 8-core processor: $606 (about $75.75) per core

Put otherwise, the cost of an AMD EPYC 4584PX CPU core is just around 58% that of an Intel Xeon core. These costs highlight the comparative pricing and leading performance capabilities of AMD EPYC 4004 processors, which makes them an appealing choice for small and medium-sized enterprises trying to maximize their server infrastructure expenditures.

Fundamental Leadership in Workload

Comparing a single-socket 8-core Intel Xeon E-2488 system to a single-socket 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system, illustrates the ~1.73x SPECrate 2017_int_rate_base performance uplift achieved by the latter. A performance gain of around 1.50x is also achieved using the identical AMD EPYC 4584PX and Intel Xeon E-2488 CPU.

Advantage of Power Efficiency

Small- to medium-sized businesses and huge data centers struggle with energy costs. The SPECpower_ssj 2008 benchmark standardizes energy efficiency evaluation of volume server-class computers.

The power efficiency of 4th-generation AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs leads SPECpower_ssj 2008. A 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system with ~1.81x more energy efficiency than an Intel system. Once again, the AMD EPYC 4004 CPU offers a noteworthy increase in performance per CPU dollar of around 1.57 times.

Java Server Side

The SPECjbb 2015 benchmark simulates a business IT environment that manages online activities, data mining jobs, and point-of-sale transactions in order to assess server-side Java programs. This benchmark is significant to JVM suppliers, hardware manufacturers, Java developers, researchers, and academics because of how widely used Java is. Max-jOPS, which measures maximum throughput without stringent response time restrictions, and critical-jOPS, which measures maximum throughput with reaction time limits, are the performance metrics used by SPECjbb 2015.

A single-socket 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system achieves ~2.59x the performance of the same Intel processor on the SPECjbb 2015 composite critical jOPS metric at a performance/CPU dollar result of up to ~2.24x, and ~2.02x the performance of a single-socket 8-core Intel Xeon E-2388G system on the SPECjbb 2015 composite max jOPS metric.

Processing Transactions for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark TPC Benchmark C describes a set of functional criteria that are common to all transaction processing systems, independent of operating system or hardware. The TPROC-C workload was developed and generated using the HammerDB benchmark tool.Image Credit To AMD

Because the results of this open-source workload do not adhere to the TPC-C Benchmark Standard, they cannot be compared to published TPC-C results. Instead, they are generated from the TPC-C Benchmark Standard. On the other hand, HammerDB TPROC-C is a useful tool for quickly evaluating the performance of database systems, contrasting databases, and system optimization.

A 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX single-socket system is shown in Figure, delivering about 1.50x MySQL TPROC-C TPM performance and approximately 1.30x performance/CPU dollar compared to the identical Intel processor.

Processing of Media

Image Credit To AMD

The increased demand for high-quality video material has made media processing an increasingly typical edge activity. A flexible multimedia framework, FFmpeg may be used to encode, decode, transcode, stream, filter, and play back video files in a variety of historical and contemporary formats and standards. In comparison to the same Intel system, a single-socket, 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system can achieve average FFmpeg encode speed-ups of ~2.13x (8 jobs @ 2 threads per job), ~2.25x (4 jobs @ 4 threads per job), and ~2.45x (2 threads @ 8 cores per job) at a processor cost that is only about 15% higher.

The AMD Ryzen 5000 series will have 3D V-Cache and graphics units for AM4 platforms in early 2024

AMD’s AM4 CPU platform appears to have several potential uses. The Persian medium sakhtafzarmag may have leaked this. Another source suggests that Google will shortly announce a minimum of 5 major SKUs, among them the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, Ryzen 5 5600X3D, Ryzen 5 5600GT, Ryzen 5 5500GT, and Ryzen 7 5700, which will provide more efficiency in comparison to their older generations.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and Ryzen 5 5600X3D specs are known. The new Ryzen 7 5700X3D is has eight CPU cores and sixteen threads, however slower clock speeds of 3.0 GHz (base) and 4.1 GHz (boost). The processor features a 105-watt-hour Consumption and 96 MB L3 cache. 3D V-Cache and the AMD Ryzen 5500X3D has 6 cores, 12 threads, a 3.0 GHz base clock, a 4.0 GHz peak clock, and a 96 MB L3 cache.

In addition to the the initial-generation 3D V-Cache’s tougher performance and thermal constraints, both chips have lower clock frequencies than non-X3D components. Radeon 5700X3D is four hundred megahertz more slowly than 5800X3D, where as 5500X3D is 300 MHz slower at normal frequency and 400 MHz slower at boosting frequency.

These fresh products protect the AM4 weizer and increase gaming performance with 3D V-Cache technology. AMD may also replace the Ryzen 5 5600G APU with the 5600GT and 5500GT. The Ryzen APU family’s new “GT” moniker suggests the two processors will offer a small boost. An entry-level 8-core Ryzen 7 5700 based on Zen 3-core architecture is also predicted.

By January’s end, all of these new chips may be released. They may debut alongside the Ryzen 8000G AM5 desktop APU series. However, early February should see their retail release.

The Red Company’s new chips, which use the same dies as the mobile series, will have numerous variants. The major versions, Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G, employ the Phoenix 1 processor with Zen 4 cores. But AMD aims to sell additional versions including the Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G with Phoenix 2, which employ Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores. Naturally, the PRO series offers all these models. At the same time, GE offers 35-watt chips.

Ryzen 7 8700G, with 8 cores and 16 Zen 4 threads, 45/65 watts of thermal power, 4.2 to 5.1 GHz clock speed, and strong RDNA 3 integrated graphics, will be the most appealing CPU of this series.We should also notify you of the release date of various additional AMD CPU types. Desktop Phoenix series CPUs will be released on January 31 (February 11) with three models: Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, and Ryzen 3 8500G.

The Ryzen 7 5700X3D, another AM4 X3D CPU, will compete alongside the Core i5 13600K and 14600K on the same day. Despite having 8 cores and 16 processing threads, this model will clock slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

Other CPUs will be launched, including the Ryzen 5 5600GT and Ryzen 5 5500GT to replace the 5600G in the first season. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700 NPU processor will launch in late January.