AMD Ryzen 9 9900X appears to be slower than the 7800X3D in a lot of games in these first third-party gaming benchmarks

YouTube’s ‘SaddyTech’ has shared the first third-party gaming benchmarks for the new AMD Ryzen 9 9900X CPU. And, from what we can see, this upcoming CPU is actually slower than the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D in various CPU-bound games.

SaddyTech benchmarked 10 PC games. These were Alan Wake 2, Total War Warhammer 3, Cities Skylines 2, COD: Warzone 2, CS: GO 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy and Starfield.

In Alan Wake 2, COD: Warzone 2, Total War: Warhammer 3 and Starfield, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X was able to match the performance of the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. However, in all the other games, the 9900X was noticeably slower than the 7800X3D.

This pretty much shows how important the 3D V-Cache of the AMD CPUs is for a number of modern-day titles. This is also why we always recommend these CPUs for gamers. And yes, you should definitely wait for the 9900X3D (or whatever it will be called).

AMD plans to release the Ryzen 9 9900X CPU on July 31st. If you already own a 7800X3D or a 7950X3D, you can safely skip this generation of AMD CPUs. Yes, you might get a small performance boost with the 3D V-Cache variant. However, there is no point in upgrading to that CPU if you already have one of these two CPUs.

We expect more gaming benchmarks to surface when the 9900X comes out (or a day before its launch). Although this doesn’t appear to be an exciting CPU, we’ll have an article with numerous gaming benchmarks from various outlets.

Stay tuned for more!

John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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