MSI’s “X3D Gaming Mode” Delivers Faster Gaming Performance With Single & Dual-CCD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPUs

MSI has introduced its new “X3D Gaming Mode” feature which delivers a nice boost in games when running a single or dual CCD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPU.

MSI Boosts AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPUs With Its “X3D Gaming Mode” BIOS Feature, Rolling Out To 800-Series Motherboards First

Recently, motherboard manufacturers such as Gigabyte (AORUS) and ASUS rolled out their latest AGESA 1.2.0.2a BIOS firmware which offers enhanced support for the newly released AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. This gaming behemoth has taken the market by storm, offering the world’s fastest performance to gamers, and while the chip is already out of stock due to insane demand, partners making the motherboards have a treat for further enhancing the performance of existing & next-gen Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPUs.

MSI is the latest motherboard maker that is going to offer the boosted X3D functionality with its new “X3D Gaming Mode” BIOS feature. This feature essentially works the same way as the other two vendors, which is to allow either disabling the other CCD or SMT to help in games. The X3D Gaming Mode feature will mostly be beneficial on the dual CCD dies such as the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and the upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D, but we have heard that even single CCD’s will benefit from this feature.

We tried a pre-release version of the BIOS feature for ourselves with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and noticed a 20% gain in Far Cry 6 using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 at 1080p (Ultra Settings). The average FPS went from 219 to 263, but the gains vary from title to title, as we saw a 10% gain in Shadow…