show me those little chips
While we’ll have to wait a while before we can benchmark the newly announced Ryzen 7000X3D series chips, we do know quite a bit about them. FPS Review has gathered most of what we learned into a preview article, which you can check out here. Since we don’t have the full tech specs yet, it’s a bit short, but it does reflect what they learned while talking to Scott Stankard, Director of Customer Product Management at AMD.
As announced, the chips contain two CCDs, each with eight cores, only one of which contains a 3D cache, so you may have heard the 8+8X3D configuration mentioned. In theory, this means that both Windows 10 and Windows 11 should be able to tell the difference between the two CCDs, so that most games will default to the X3D CCD, while lightly threaded applications will run on the non-X3D CCD.
This design also means that the CCD with 3D cache will have a slightly lower boost clock than the other, and no, you won’t be able to overclock to match the other core. These chips were not designed with this in mind, and even if someone manages to find a workaround, it could cause stability issues.
If you want to know more, check out the link above.