The iBuypower Slate AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming PC Drops to $1,650 for Black Friday

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Is the Best Gaming CPU

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best gaming CPU for most people. The 9900X3D might be a little bit faster in gaming benchmarks (according to Passmark), but real-world gaming performance is nearly identical and it retails for $120 more. For gamers, the 9800X3D is obviously the better value. It features a max boost clock of 5.2GHz with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 104MB of L2-L3 cache. AMD’s X3D processors use 3D-V-Cache technology to outperform its non-X3D counterparts as well as any Intel CPU in games. It doesn’t have as many cores as some other modern day CPUs, but keep in mind that most games can’t utilize more than eight cores. Check out our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT Received a 10/10 at IGN

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the only 2025-released GPU that we gave a 10/10 score. Even though it costs $150 less than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the 9070 XT beats it out in several of the games we tested. In a few benchmarks, the results aren’t even close. The 9070 XT approaches the performance of the $1,000 RX 7900 XTX but with better ray tracing and upscaling performance than its predecessor. This is the least expensive graphics card from either AMD or Nvidia that I would comfortably recommend for playing the latest and most demanding games in 4K at 60fps or higher framerates. Check out our AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review.

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