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Save 24% on AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D, still one of the best gaming CPUs around
AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D still tops plenty of gaming benchmarks against newer chips, and it has just dropped to one of its lowest prices yet.
That price is $339.99 at Amazon, down from its $449.00 list price, a saving of $109.01, or 24%, on the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the chip our tech expert called nothing short of impressive in his review.
Save 24% on AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D, still one of the best gaming CPUs around
With 3D V-Cache that still tops gaming benchmarks against newer chips, AMD’s Ryzen 7 7800X3D drops to $339.99 at Amazon, a 24% saving.
Storey pointed to 3D V-Cache as the chip’s crowning glory, an extra layer of cache stacked on top of the processor that boosts average frame rates in certain games without needing a faster clock speed to do it.
The reasoning behind that design is that Ryzen chips are built from chiplets called Core Complexes, and stacking cache directly onto one of them cuts the latency that would otherwise come from cores fetching data across the chip’s internal Infinity Fabric interconnect.
That approach comes at the cost of slightly lower clock speeds and wattage than a non stacked design, though Storey still measured strong single core performance from the 7800X3D’s eight Zen 4 cores and sixteen threads in his testing at the time.
He rated the price to performance value as solid even at launch, noting the 7800X3D has no true non-3D equivalent and sits closest to the standard 7700X, while both chips share access to DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 support on the AM5 platform.
Storey’s main reservations were that this platform only supports DDR5 memory, that AM5 motherboards remain pricey compared with the wider market, and that Intel’s competing chips can still edge ahead in raw performance depending on the exact workload and games involved.
Despite those reservations, the 7800X3D still holds a 4.8 star average from more than 8,000 reviews and a number three ranking among Amazon’s best selling processors, which is no small feat in a market flooded with newer CPU launches years after its original launch.
None of that stops Storey’s verdict from holding up today, a solid, efficient and reliable pick for anyone building an AMD gaming PC, and at $339.99 instead of $449.00 the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is an even easier chip to recommend.
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