Intel has no immediate plans to rival AMD’s X3D CPUs, or maybe it can’t
Intel is not planning a desktop X3D chip just yet
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Intel will produce a chip with extended CPU cache, but it won’t be for desktop applications.
We all know by now that AMD leads the charge when it comes to affordable gaming hardware, especially in the CPU arena, as we’ve seen with the massive uplift the 9800X3D brings. What we didn’t know, however, is that Intel has no plans to rival AMD’s relatively new tech—at least, not yet.
Intel has just had to suffer through one of the worst CPU launches I have seen from it. However, the generation that emerged from the smoke was impressive, all things considered. What it didn’t do was give AMD a run for its money, particularly in gaming applications, which left many of us wondering when Intel was going to clap back with its version of 3D v-cache—or something to rival Team Red. Turns out, it’s nothing for now.
Intel Interview reveals no plans to rival AMD gaming chips.
Der8auer and Bens Hardware interviewed Florian Maislinger, Tech Communications Manager at Intel, who had this to say about AMD’s X3D chips:
“The AMD CPUs are tailored for a very specific target group, and that group is gamers. We are aware that this technology can offer a lot to gamers, but it also comes with trade-offs and certain disadvantages or compromises that one has to accept. In this case, it’s fine if I have an X3D CPU, which might not be as strong in applications. That is intentional, and technologically, we still have it under control.
In the server market, it’s a different market with a wider scope of potential reach than with desktop CPUs. But this is not the extremely large mass market for us. We still sell a very large number of CPUs that aren’t necessarily used for gaming.” – Florian Maislinger, Tech Communications Manager at Intel.
This shows that Intel has little to no interest in butting heads with AMD over the gamer market share right now; it is much more interested in the server and enterprise markets. Or maybe it just knows it doesn’t have the technology to rival AMD right now.
Though Intel plans to produce a chip with an extended cache, this will be an Xeon CPU with an extended L4 cache for enterprise use. As Florian says, the gaming market isn’t the be-all-and-end-all for Intel; it holds much of the server market.
Ryzen 7 9800X3D blows every other chip out of the water for gaming
Just looking at the benchmarks we recorded of the 9800X3D in our review, you can see that it is a beast in its own right. There’s just no competition.
Having said that, there have been some availability issues with the 9800X3D, starving some gamers of their ultimate gaming experience. This is likely the product of a lacklustre launch from both the Ryzen 9000 series and the Intel Core Ultra series. AMD had many issues with Windows and low TDPs, but they have since been addressed.
As for Intel, the Core Ultra 200 series relies too much on efficiency rather than raw power. However, despite the lack of hyperthreading, it holds its own in multi-core workloads.
