According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx today (through VideoCardz), the new chips can have respectable multi-core performance across generations, with an eight-core 9000X3D outperforming a Ryzen 7 7900X3D by up to 28 percent in Cinebench R23. But they can offer gains as small as 2 percent on Black Myth: Wukong and The shadow of the Tomb Raideraccording to preliminary tests from MSI.
And against the vanilla Ryzen 9000 series, MSI found that the X3D's performance was so close that it was practically the same. However, MSI notes that “performance is expected to be better on PR samples and retail chips.”
It is not clear if HardwareLuxx broke an embargo or whether MSI could be responsible for the leak; Strangely, it appears that section of the presentation was primarily about Intel's new Core Ultra 200S chips, and it's unclear why unreleased AMD chips would be part of that section. The filing shows that MSI's discussion of Intel chips was embargoed until October 10.
