Failed sales of Ryzen 9000 forced AMD to change its release plan for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D

The recently released Ryzen 9000 processors were greeted rather coolly by the press and then by consumers. The new chips showed a slight increase in performance compared to their predecessors. Later, AMD explained why this happened and promised to fix everything, but the damage to its reputation had already been done. To remedy the situation, AMD is reportedly planning to shift the release schedule of the pure gaming processor Ryzen 9 9800X3D forward – from the beginning of next year to October of this year.

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The Ryzen 9 9800X3D will receive additional 3D V-Cache, which will significantly improve its gaming performance. Thanks to this, the chip will be able to seriously compete with Intel Arrow Lake processors, whose announcement is expected to take place on October 10.

Information that AMD plans to shift the release of the Ryzen 9 9800X3D to October was shared by one of the users of the closed Chiphell form, who previously accurately “predicted” the release of other new products. According to him, one of the AMD employees spoke about such plans at a recent event organized by Gigabyte, which was organized on the occasion of the launch of new motherboards based on AMD X870 and X870E chipsets, designed specifically for Ryzen 9000 processors.

AMD is reportedly planning to release a total of three models of 9000X3D series processors based on the Zen 5 architecture. In addition to the 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D and a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D are also expected. According to the source, AMD initially planned to release these chips at CES 2025, which traditionally will be held in January. However, given the poor response to the release of regular Ryzen 9000 processors and the upcoming release of Intel’s new Arrow Lake processors, AMD decided to change the schedule and pushed the release of the Ryzen 9 9800X3D to October this year. The TechPowerUp portal also writes about this.

If the latest reports are confirmed, this will be a significant change in the release schedule of processors with 3D cache for AMD. The previous series of Ryzen 7000X3D chips based on the Zen 4 architecture were also presented at CES, but then AMD released one processor model once a month. The company left the eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D model for last – it was released only in April, but in the end it became the fastest gaming processor, which it remains to this day. If AMD manages to increase the performance of the Ryzen 9000X3D by about 15% using 3D V-Cache, then it will certainly retain the title of manufacturer of the fastest processors for gamers.

There is also other information circulating online regarding future Ryzen 9000X3D processors. For example, it is claimed that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D does not support overclocking at all, although it was previously assumed that AMD would finally allow overclocking of X3D chips by increasing their clock speed. Another hypothesis says that AMD has allegedly found a way to bypass the annoying problem of core parking in dual-chip processors with additional cache memory. It is understood that on such processors games should be launched exclusively on a chiplet with 3D V-Cache memory, and a special driver is responsible for controlling this process. However, it does not always work correctly. In new processors, AMD may add 3D cache to both chiplets at once as a workaround for this problem.