Updated: Sep 12, 2024 1:17 pm WePC is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Prices subject to change. Learn more Table of Contents Table of Contents Sales of the Ryzen 9000 series are the worst that they have been since the 1st Ryzen generation way back in 2017. It could be that the disappointing performance has left people holding out for X3D. But what would the 9000X3D look like in terms of performance? Ryzen 9000 series was a little bit of a flop, especially at the low end. Microsoft and its Windows operating system played a part in that, as it was proven that 9000 series processors tested on update 24H2 yielded much better performance. Thankfully, the performance uplift was backported to 23H2 in a small update not long ago. A recent video by Hardware Unboxed lifts the lid on the poor Ryzen 9000 series sales and compares them to the first-ever Ryzen launch by saying “At least here in Australia, this has been the worst Ryzen launch since the start of Ryzen as a whole”. After speaking to some unnamed retailers, Hardware Unboxed stated that one of the retailers said one of the Zen 5 sales figures was still in the single digits shortly after launch. But it’s been around a month now since the launch of the Ryzen 9000 series, surely things have improved? Where are the Ryzen sales figures now? There are not many places where we have access to the sales data, but if we head over to Mindfactory, and check out the Ryzen 9000 series, we can see that the sales figures are still very underwhelming. Previous Next The sales stack up as follows: Ryzen 9 9950X – 170 Units sold Ryzen 9 9900X – 80 Units sold Ryzen 7 9700X – 160 Units sold Ryzen 5 9600X – 60 Units sold If you compare these numbers with the likes of the 7900X, it has around 6,940 units sold. We know that it’s been out far longer than the 900 sires, but if you scale up some of the numbers per month to the time that the 7900X has been around, they still don’t come close. Personally, we’ve seen lots of people opt for the 7000 series over the 9000, I myself am even considering upgrading to the 7000 series from my 5900X which has served me very well over the years. Either that, or I wait to see what X3D has to offer. What will 9000 X3D have to offer? Obviously, we don’t know, it isn’t out yet. But if we take some of the data from the 7000 series, we can extrapolate and predict a potential uplift this time around, even if we assume no actual progress has been made on the X3D portion of the processor. Firstly, let’s tackle the 5800X and 5800X3D, ahh, where it all started. TechSpot says that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D delivers an average bump of 15% performance in 1080p, that’s over a massive 41 games no less. An extra 15% performance is nothing to scoff at if you’re already getting upwards of 200 in some easier-to-run games. AMD’s 7900X3D Moving onto the 7000 series now, and we have many more X3D CPUs to choose from, we’re going to take the 7900X and the 7900X3D as an example (as there is no base 7800X unfortunately). Here, TechSpot reports a 5% boost over the standard 7900X, but that was with scheduling issues close to launch, the real uplift is closer to 12% in games. So if we take a ballpark figure of a 13% uplift, we can expect some pretty exciting things from 9000X3D, all this is assuming AMD has made NO improvements to the 3D V-cache at all. If you apply a 13% uplift to the 9950X (as per TechSpot’s testing to keep it consistent) in TLOU Part 1 – you get 203 FPS (182 base) and that’s faster than the 14900K (192 FPS). Sure, but the 14900K is technically a generation behind, what does that matter? Yes, but the Ryzen 9000 series is much more efficient than the 14900K, there’s also many more examples to apply the 13% uplift prediction. We’ll just have to wait and see what the real performance numbers are. In the end, you might end up with gaming CPUs that can really compete with the next-generation Intel CPUs. AMD may have also improved the V-cache of their Zen 5 processors, allowing us more room to overclock or even get better base values out of the CPU. At the end of the day, the Ryzen 9000 didn’t offer much over the 7000 series at launch, but X3D could change all that especially if you’re a gamer.
