Third-party benchmark results (viamomomo_us) of the upcomingRyzen 7 9800X3D, in the form of PugetBench results in AdobePremiere ProandDavinci 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 anRTX 4090and 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, all operating on anAsus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero.
Compared to its direct predecessor, theRyzen 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 thebenchmarkingsuite.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D sees more impressive gains against its non-X3D counterparts. Compared to theRyzen 7 9700X, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a whopping 41% quicker in the Premiere Pro benchmark. Against theRyzen 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 theRyzen 9 7950X3D, with virtually identical results in Premiere Pro and the Ryzen 9 7950X3D being 14% faster in Davinci Resolve.
On the Intel side, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D managed to exceed the performance of theCore i5-14600Kand virtually match the performance of theCore i7-14700Kdespite 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 theCore 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.
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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 is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.
