AMD has been an extremely popular choice among consumers who want a desktop chip suitable for both gaming and work. Their Ryzen 7000 3D V-Cache processors offered huge performance advantages in many games while being slightly faster than Intel in less intensive games. Now they have officially released the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, which is a new CPU powered by 3D V-Cache technology.

The new AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU has 16 cores and 32 threads. This is the same as their Ryzen 9 7945HX that was announced as part of the Ryzen 7000 Mobile CPU Lineup. However, the L3 cache has been upgraded from 64MB on the regular CPU to a staggering 144MB with 3D V-Cache. Incidentally, AMD has lowered the maximum operating temperature to 89C on this CPU, which is much lower than the normal CPU's 100C limit.

These improvements help supercharge gaming performance by more than 15% compared to the normal R9 7945HX CPU without any 3D V-Cache. To balance things out, the base clock has been lowered by 200MHz on the new CPU. It should be noted that the boost clock remains the same as the regular variant of the same processor, at 5.4 GHz. This new CPU can produce higher gaming performance at lower power levels, making it 11% faster when capped at 70W and 23% faster at 40W. AMD tested these numbers by throttling both the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D and its non-3D V- Cache variant to respective power figures.

The above performance comparison figures were tested on a few titles. 3D V-Cache will definitely give a gaming performance advantage in most games. If the 15% figure didn't seem impressive to you, in a heavy game like Cyberpunk 2077 the performance increase was 44%. Riftbreaker saw the biggest jump with up to 53% higher performance. I personally expect that esports games like Valorant and Counter-Strike 2, which are sensitive to CPU performance, will also see a big jump in FPS.