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Even though AMD just launched its regular Zen 5 CPUs in August, their lukewarm reception and the imminent arrival of competing chips from Intel could spur AMD to release the X3D V-Cache versions ahead of schedule. It is rumored that the company decided to launch them in October instead of early 2025, and now MSI has inadvertently leaked data about their performance, which is lower than expected.
MSI recently gave a media tour of one of its motherboard manufacturing facilities in China, and as part of the tour, it discussed upcoming hardware. Some of those slides showed Ryzen 9000X3D performance, which the German site Hardwareluxx reportedly shared but has seemingly now deleted. The slides show very modest gains for Ryzen 9000X3D compared with regular Ryzen 9000 and their Zen 4 predecessors. The slides were reposted by Videocardz.
MSI’s numbers for gaming performance for Ryzen 9000X3D compared with 7800X3D show very modest gains.
Credit: Videocardz
The slides show AMD is planning two X3D CPUs for Ryzen 9000: an eight-core and a 16-core chip. One slide shows the maximum uplift in gaming for Ryzen 9000X3D is 13% for the 16-core version, which is lower than the 18% uplift going from Zen 3 X3D to Zen 4, according to TechSpot. However, the caveat is that the 13% is just in Far Cry 6, an older game. The same slide shows the eight-core version is just 11% faster, while noting more games need to be tested.
When it comes to compute performance, a slide from MSI states, “performance is close” between the Ryzen 9000X3D and Ryzen 9000. The accompanying slides show almost no difference in Cinebench results for the eight-core X3D chip and just a 6.5% difference in multi-core for the 16-core X3D.
The one bright spot in the leaked slides is there is a sizable uplift in Cinebench for Ryzen 9000X3D compared with Ryzen 7000X3D. A slide shows an uplift of 16% in multi-core performance for the eight-core chip and 28% in multi-core for the 16-core chip.
It’s unclear why MSI showed these numbers to the media before the Ryzen 9000X3D chips were even announced, but they make clear the chips are imminent, and they may be underwhelming just a bit. People buy these CPUs for their gaming benefits, not for compute, so if 13% is the maximum benefit, people with Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs will likely not feel the need to upgrade.