During an interview with HotHardware, AMD’s technical director of marketing, Robert Hallockhas confirmed that the recently announced processor Ryzen 7 5800X3Dthe first of the brand to incorporate 3D V Cacheit will not have any support for traditional overclocking, and what is more, it will have a series of strong locks to prevent it.
AMD advertises its new Ryzen 7 5800X3D as “the best processor for gaming”, at least within the firm’s catalog, and they claim that it has a significant performance increase compared to similar processors without 3D V-Cache. However, these days it seems quite strange that AMD denies the ability to Overclock the processor, possibly denoting potential stability problems precisely because of this 3D V-Cache.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D Overclocked Locked But Do You Need It?
As discussed in the video that we have inserted above with the interview, this processor has a severe lock so that neither its operating speed nor its voltage can be modified, at least not in the traditional way that we know as Overclock. However, it seems that users will be able to adjust other values such as clock frequency. Infinite Fabric and DRAM, which will improve performance somewhat, but logically not as much as we would achieve by adjusting the base operating speed.
According to Hallock, the base voltage of this Ryzen 7 5800X3D does not exceed 1.35V, but it still seems a fairly high value for what we are used to seeing in modern hardware, and this means that both its consumption and its operating temperature They have plenty of room for improvement. And it seems that AMD has decided to launch this processor on the market as a spearhead, as it is the first to incorporate the L3 cache memory just above the 8-core chiplet, but they do not have any optimization for overclocking; We will have to wait for AMD to continue working on it and for the technology to mature, because it is something that they do not rule out for the future.
As can be seen in the screenshot of the official AMD slide that we have put above, this processor has 8 cores and 16 process threads at a base speed of 3.4 GHz and that reach 4.5 GHz in Boost mode, which which means that it is already 200 MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X on which its design is based.
However, thanks to those 64MB AMD 3D V-Cache this processor will offer higher performance in games, which according to AMD is up to 15% higher than a Ryzen 9 5900X, and this leads us to answer the question we asked in the statement: do you really need to overclock this processor? The answer, a priori, is no, and in fact the fact that a user has to overclock a processor to be able to get the most out of it is something that should not happen, since this extra performance should always come from the factory. Although this is our opinion, of course.
Let us remember that the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D will be launched on the market on April 20 at a price of 449 dollars/Euros, and will compete in the gaming segment with the Intel Core i9-12900KS (which should be launched on the market at the end of this month ).
