Just hours after motherboard companies beat them to it, AMD has officially announced the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the first next-gen 3D V-Cache processor, set to retail at $479. And we now know what AMD meant back in June when it spoke of 9000X3D's 'really cool differentiators', because it features a different design to the 7000X3D chips.
Apart from its price tag, which is $30 higher than the previous-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D was priced at launch, probably the biggest takeaways are that the 9800X3D has a 500 MHz higher base clock and 200 MHz higher boost clock compared to the 7800X3D, and its 3D-stacked cache will sit under rather than on top of the processor.
