GoKawiilAMD's Ryzen X3D chips gained 50% performance in two years, benchmarks show
A comparison of AMD's Ryzen 7 X3D processors from 2022 to 2024 (5800X3D, 7800X3D and 9800X3D) shows Geekbench 6 scores rising roughly 47% on single-core and 58% on multi-core tasks. Clock speed increases were modest, from 4.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz max boost, while transistor counts grew about 50%, from roughly 11 billion to 16 billion, mostly added to the processor core rather than cache.
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The data suggests that AMD's generational gains came less from raw clock speed and more from architectural changes such as wider instruction dispatch, larger caches, more integer execution units, and doubled SIMD width in Zen 5. This indicates that meaningful CPU performance improvements are still achievable through core redesign even as clock speed gains plateau, countering the common perception that CPU progress has stalled.
- Ryzen 7 X3D chips gained about 50% performance from 2022 to 2024 despite only a 15% clock speed increase.
- Transistor counts rose roughly 50%, with most additions going to the core rather than cache.
- Zen 5 doubled SIMD unit width to 512-bit and widened instruction dispatch, integer ALUs, and reorder buffer capacity.
Source: lemire.me — Https, 2026-09-18
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