AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D Linux Gaming Performance

While going from the Ryzen 9 7950X to the 7950X3D had netted a 16% improvement in the geometric mean for the Linux gaming benchmarks, overall from the Ryzen 9 7900X to 7900X3D the performance was flat while in a few cases like Shadow of the Tomb Raider was some noticeable uplift. The smaller difference may still come down to the lack of Linux optimizations so far for AMD 3D V-Cache, so we'll be sure to see how the situation evolves over the weeks ahead.

Where the Ryzen 9 7900X3D comes out much better than the 7900X is the power efficiency. While the average frame rate performance was often similar between the 7900X and 7900X3D, its CPU package power consumption rate was around 58% that of the 7900X! That was even better than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D on average running at around 71% the rate of the 7950X for this selection of Linux gaming benchmarks. These numbers are all much lower than what was seen with the Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" processor during this Linux game benchmarking.

So for those very concerned about power efficiency, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D does extremely well on Linux. Now that these initial Linux gaming figures are out of the way, stay tuned to Phoronix next week for seeing how well the Ryzen 9 7900X3D performs in nearly 400 (non-gaming) benchmarks of different workloads. Given the interesting 7950X3D results and previously showing how well the Ryzen 7 5800X3D performed for technical computing workloads, it will be very interesting to see how the 7900X3D is running under Linux for these non-gaming tasks.