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scottsoapbox Incredibly unlikely for the 9700x3D to be faster than the 9800x3D despite the author’s wishes. Reply
Notton There's no way AMD would release a 9700X3D with higher clocks than a 9800X3D… They'd name it the 9805X3D or something like that. I find the Ryzen Max+ 388 to be way more interesting. AFAIK, there is also a Max+ 392 with 12 cores and 40CU Reply
Makaveli The 5.8 Boost clocks don't make sense for a chip that is most likely one that failed to make the bin for the 9800X3D. So either passmark is wrong or it was the 9850X3D chip that was tested because that chip with 5.6 Boost + 200Mhz from PBO will be at 5.8 Reply
LabRat 891 This appears to be 2 separate rumors, combined. The ' 9850X3D ' rumor (higher clocked 9800X3D) and The '9700X3D' rumor/expectation. 9700X3D will likely (eventually) exist, as it'd simply be poor-binning 9800X3D-destined parts. Reply
WonkoTheSaneUK I suspect that (if it surfaces) the 9700X3D would be a 6 core / 12 thread CPU, not an 8/16 like the 9800X3D Reply
salgado18 WonkoTheSaneUK said: I suspect that (if it surfaces) the 9700X3D would be a 6 core / 12 thread CPU, not an 8/16 like the 9800X3D From the past, the x700 has the same cores as the x800, just lower clocks. It seems to be a 9700X3D overclocked for testing. Reply
Pegaroo Makaveli said: The 5.8 Boost clocks don't make sense for a chip that is most likely one that failed to make the bin for the 9800X3D. So either passmark is wrong or it was the 9850X3D chip that was tested because that chip with 5.6 Boost + 200Mhz from PBO will be at 5.8 Or whoever has leaked it has been over clocking and maybe using sub ambient cooling Reply
wakuwaku LabRat 891 said: This appears to be 2 separate rumors, combined. The ' 9850X3D ' rumor (higher clocked 9800X3D) and The '9700X3D' rumor/expectation. 9700X3D will likely (eventually) exist, as it'd simply be poor-binning 9800X3D-destined parts. This person appears to be using AI to summarize articles and they don't bother to scrutinize the output. Why I say this? If you bothered to read the whole article and click on the citation link given, you would know the article is not about rumors. It is about a passmark result, a legitimate benchmark software. Their results are uploaded by their software directly to their website. Another familiar benchmark that does the same is geekbench. Unless maybe your AI decided that passmark is also an AI generating software that uploads fake information to a rumor spreading website. Reply
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