Ryzen 7 9800X3D trails Core i9-14900K in leaked PugetBench benchmarks — upcoming Zen 5 3D V-Cache chip shows good performance uplift over Ryzen 9000

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The Ryzen 7 9800X3D brings the Zen 5 and 3D V-Cache firepower.

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Third-party benchmark results (via momomo_us) of the upcoming Ryzen 7 9800X3D, in the form of PugetBench results in Adobe Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve, have been published online. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D sees a multi-threaded improvement of 5% versus its predecessor in Davinci Resolve.

These benchmark results give us a taste of what the Ryzen 7 9800X3D can do outside a gaming workload. The 3D V-Cache-equipped Zen 5 chip features an overall score of 14,201 points in PugetBench for Premiere Pro 1.1.0 and 10,487 points in PugetBench for Davinci Resolve 1.1.0. The CPU was paired with an RTX 4090 and 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, all operating on an Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero.

Compared to its direct predecessor, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D sees a 5% performance win in the Davinci Resolve test, with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D scoring just shy of 10,000 points. Sadly, there are no PugetBench results for Premiere Pro with the 7800X3D using the same version of the benchmarking suite.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D sees more impressive gains against its non-X3D counterparts. Compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a whopping 41% quicker in the Premiere Pro benchmark. Against the Ryzen 7 7700X, the 9800X3D is an even greater 46% faster in the same benchmark but just 4% faster in the Davinci Resolve benchmark. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D managed to close the gap on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, with virtually identical results in Premiere Pro and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D being 14% faster in Davinci Resolve.

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CPUsPugetBench Premiere Pro 1.1.0PugetBench Davinci Resolve 1.1.0
Ryzen 7 9800X3D14,20110,487
Ryzen 7 9700X10,071N/A
Ryzen 7 7800X3DN/A9,991
Ryzen 7 7700X9,7149,067
Ryzen 9 7950X3D14,89612,030
Core i9-14900K15,60212,102
Core i7-14700K14,13811,716
Core i5-14600K13,24310,339

On the Intel side, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D managed to exceed the performance of the Core i5-14600K and virtually match the performance of the Core i7-14700K despite both Raptor Lake Refresh chips sporting significantly more cores. However, if the Ryzen 9 7950X3D results weren't telling, these benchmarks don't seem to care for many cores. The only chip that noticeably outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the Core i9-14900K, 9% faster in Premiere and 15% in Davinci Resolve.

Remember that all of the comparison data was taken from the highest-performing result in the database for each chip, respectively. As a result, not all chips had the same memory configuration, which could swap results in favor of one chip vs another. Premiere and Resolve take advantage of the GPU for work and don't generally scale well with core count. Regardless, it is a benchmark of two real-world applications that is always helpful.

The most exciting takeaway from the PugetBench results is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's consistent domination over its 8-core Zen 4 and Zen 5 counterparts. Previously leaked official advertisement information on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D revealed that the chip would have a massive 15% performance improvement in multi-threaded applications, and it appears that might be the case with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D outperforming even its non-X3D counterparts.

AMD will release its first Ryzen 9000X3D chip on November 7. All leaks point to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The pricing remains a mystery; however, retailers have listed the chip for between $484 and $525.

Aaron Klotz
Aaron Klotz
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.

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  • bit_user
    Puget makes clear that some of their video-related benchmarks benefit heavily from Intel's QuickSync hardware codec acceleration. Given that AMD is still using the same IO Die as in Zen 4, it was obvious they weren't going to improve on that front.

    Also, it should always be noted that Puget's CEO sits on Intel's Advisory Board. So, he, his company, and their benchmarks should not be treated as an unbiased source of truth.

    The article has some merit, in analyzing the gen-on-gen performance between the n800X3D models and comparing the 9700X to 9800X3D. However, due to Intel's QuickSync video advantage, it shouldn't be treated as basis for comparing pure compute performance between AMD and Intel.
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  • Elusive Ruse
    Puget is a mouthpiece for Intel, that said, I am wondering why they are playing with an X3D to begin with? Their scope of business and their clients are not in line with the intended target market of the 9800X3D.
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  • bit_user
    Elusive Ruse said:
    I am wondering why they are playing with an X3D to begin with? Their scope of business and their clients are not in line with the intended target market of the 9800X3D.
    I had the same question, but the article starts out saying that it was an independent actor who simply ran Puget's benchmark suite (which you can presumably download and run for yourself).

    It's also a bit rich that it's comparing against the best entries in the scores database, which includes machines of unknown memory configuration and overclocking status.
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  • DingusDog
    Hmmm cherry picked benchmarks against a 14900k instead of the core ultra 285k I wonder why...
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  • Elusive Ruse
    bit_user said:
    I had the same question, but the article starts out saying that it was an independent actor who simply ran Puget's benchmark suite (which you can presumably download and run for yourself).

    It's also a bit rich that it's comparing against the best entries in the scores database, which includes machines of unknown memory configuration and overclocking status.
    Ah that’s my bad then, but seeing 9800X3D beating 9700X comprehensively, the different configurations being the caveat; tells me the X3D has got some ST chops.
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