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’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 7 9800X3D is finally here, and I’ll tell you right away that it’s one of the best processors you can buy. It introduces AMD’s next-gen 3D V-Cache tech, and it dominates in games. But there’s still plenty of ...

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.”

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 overclockers have already pushed the new best gaming CPU to 7.2 GHz and achieved 1400 FPS in Counter-Strike 2.