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.

With a little help from liquid nitrogen cooling, AMD's latest Zen 5 gaming CPU has hit nearly 7GHz while drawing surprisingly little power.

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,

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

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.