In an interview with HotHardware, AMD’s CTO, Robert Hallockconfirmed that the recently announced processor Ryzen 7 5800X3Dthe first of the brand to integrate 3D virtual cacheit will have no support for traditional overclocking, and moreover, it will have a series of strong locks to prevent it.
AMD advertises its new Ryzen 7 5800X3D as “the best processor for gaming”, at least in the firm’s catalog, and they claim that it has a significant performance boost over similar processors without 3D V-Cache. However, these days it seems quite odd that AMD is denying the ability to overclock the processor, possibly pointing to potential stability issues precisely because of this 3D V-Cache.
Overclocked Ryzen 7 5800X3D locked but do you need it?
As discussed in the video we inserted above with the interview, this processor has a hard lock so that neither its operating speed nor its voltage can be changed, at least not in the traditional way we know as Overclock’s name. However, it looks like users will be able to adjust other values such as clock frequency. infinity fabric and DRAM, which will improve performance somewhat, but logically not as much as we would by adjusting the base operating speed.
According to Hallock, the base voltage of this Ryzen 7 5800X3D does not exceed 1.35V, but that still seems quite a high value for what we are used to seeing in modern hardware, and that means that its consumption and its operating temperature They have a lot of room for improvement. And it looks like AMD decided to launch this processor in the market as a spearhead because it’s the first to integrate L3 cache just above the 8-core chiplet, but they don’t have any optimization for it. overclocking; We’ll have to wait for AMD to continue working on it and for the technology to mature, as it’s something they’re not ruling out for the future.
As can be seen in the screenshot from the official AMD slide we put above, this processor has 8 cores and 16 process threads at a base speed of 3.4GHz and that go up to 4.5 GHz in Boost mode, which means it’s already 200 MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X on which its design is based.
However, thanks to those 64MB AMD 3D V-Cache this processor will deliver higher performance in games, which AMD claims is up to 15% better than a Ryzen 9 5900X, and that leads us to answer the question we posed in the release: do you really need overclock this processor? The answer, a priori, is no, and in fact the fact that a user has to overclock a CPU in order to get the most out of it is something that shouldn’t happen, since that extra performance should always come from the factory. . that’s our opinion of course.
Remember that the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D will be launched on the market on April 20 at a price of 449 dollars/dollars, and will compete in the gaming segment with the Intel Core i9-12900KS (which should be launched on the market at the end of this month).
