Asus China's GM Tony Yu has shown (via Wccftech) the 9800X3D reaching a whopping 6.9 GHz at just over 100 W and achieving—at points—over 1,000 fps in CS2 and Valorant at max settings. That's 1080p, of course, but these are esports titles and we like our frames more than our pixels for competitive gaming.

AMD has dominated PC gaming CPU performance for more than two years. Its X3D chips have provided a boost that Intel has been unable to match, and its new $479 Ryzen 7 9800X3D goes a step further to not only improve gaming performance but also day-to-day tasks and creative workloads.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the first X3D CPU in the latest Ryzen 9000 series to break cover and will go on sale starting November 7.

AMD has launched the Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor as part of the Ryzen 9000 series, with the Zen 5 architecture, eight CPU cores, and 16 threads. AMD said the new processor would deliver “up to an average 8% gaming performance improvement compared to our last-gen generation and up to an average 20% faster than the competition.”

Here are the 9800X3D benchmarks. We test this new eight-core AMD processor with 3D V-cache in several games to gauge its frame rate performance.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a much more exciting launch than the initial Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” desktop processors for a very simple reason - 3D V-Cache. Not only do the X3D chips bring all the goodness of the new core microarchitecture but the additional cache memory slapped on (or should we say,

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock virtually everywhere overseas. The demand is so high that pre-orders are selling out 9800X3D shipments before they make it to their destination.

As it turns out, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a smash hit right out of the gate, and nearly every major US retailer that sells it — including Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, and Micro Center — is out of stock one day after the CPU’s launch.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D was available to purchase for a short time, but it's already sold out at most online retailers.