AMD’s reportedly boosting the TDP of their Ryzen 7 9700X to beat the 7800X3D
AMD may be altering their Ryzen 7 9700X to make it more powerful
Rumour has it that AMD are planning to change the TDP their upcoming Ryzen 7 9700X CPU. This change will reportedly change the CPU from a 65W CPU to a 120W CPU, which could potentially give the CPU a considerable performance boost.
This report comes after claims from AMD that their Ryzen 7 7800X3D will remain the company’s top gaming CPU after the release of the Ryzen 7 9700X. AMD’s X3D technology can deliver large performance benefits to gamers, and AMD aren’t launching new X3D CPUs with their initial Zen 5 CPU launch. As such, Zen 4 X3D chips may beat baseline Zen 5 CPUs in gaming workloads.
With a higher TDP, AMD should be able to increase the base (and possibly boost), clock speeds of their Ryzen 7 9700X. This should result in a notable performance increase, especially in multi-threaded workloads. That said, this change appears to be coming too close to AMD’s Zen 5 launch. Why would they reveal their 65W TDP at Compute if they were considering a change?
Based on the information we have learned, AMD has updated its partners with a possible spec change for the 8-core part. It’s being said that the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X might get a TDP of 120W which is almost 2x its current and official figure of 65W.
At Computex 2024, AMD showcased a 16% IPC boost for their Zen 5 CPU architecture. It remains to be seen how AMD’s Zen 5 architectural enhancements will benefit gaming workloads specifically. That said AMD employees have teased near (Zen 4) X3D performance without using X3D tech.
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