This gamers secret to playing Valorant at 1,200 FPS is AMDs X3D processors

Date:
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:06:09 +0000

Description:
Thanks to AMDs 3D V-cache technology, one content creator was able to hit an insane 1,200 fps in Valorant.

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Good lord, those are some high framerates. Content creator @connorjaiye ,
best known for playing the fast-paced competitive shooter Valorant , put together a custom gaming PC with the help of AMD - and was able to net
upwards of 1,200 fps in his favorite shooter.

The most fascinating part of the whole endeavor is that Connor didnt even do this using the most high-end parts available; he used a previous-gen Radeon
RX 6950 XT as his graphics card of choice, with a relatively bog-standard
B650 motherboard from MSI pulling the build together. I built a PC that gives me 1000FPSFull video below #valorant #ad #amdryzen pic.twitter.com/9qPZN2xi4K July 5, 2023 See more

The secret sauce? Its the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, the latest next-gen CPU from AMD to offer Team Reds nifty 3D V-cache technology. This allows for cache memory to be stacked on the CPU die, producing far more memory for the CPU to instantly draw on without needing to access your system RAM.

With this, Connor was able to achieve a stable 900+ frames per second in Valorant , with peaks in excess of 1,200. Its the sort of framerate that wouldve been unheard of just a few years ago, and a testament to the gaming capabilities of AMDs X3D chips - even though they typically lose out to
Intels competing CPUs in non-gaming workloads. Is 3D V-cache the new frontier for PC gaming?

I already knew that AMDs X3D chips were an exceedingly solid choice for
custom gaming PCs, but this is probably the most impressive showcase of the technology to date. Intels i9-13900K might still rule the roost in terms of overall performance, but its hard to recommend anything but the 7800X3D as
the best processor for gaming right now.

Sure, the CPU shouldnt get all the credit; the RX 6950 XT was the most powerful card from AMDs RX 6000 generation, although you can snap one up for around $580 / 585 / AU$900 right now, making it a lot cheaper than either
AMDs current flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX or Nvidias competing powerhouse the RTX 4090 .

Overall, chances are Connors build wasnt that expensive - at least, not by gaming PC standards. I ran the numbers, and buying from Newegg in the US youd be spending around $1,250 for his listed components - then using PCPartPicker , I calculated the total build cost assuming 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a liquid cooler for the CPU, and it ran to just shy of $1,700 (about 1,350 / AU$2,550)

If I was looking to achieve similar framerates, I could probably do it for a bit less - in fact, if you wanted to build a budget version of Connors framerate-blitzing PC, you could use the newly-released AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D along with a cheaper graphics card and other lower-spec components to get
that sweet sweet 3D V-cache goodness for a little over a thousand bucks. Be warned, though - the 5600X3D is a limited-edition chip only available from Micro Center in the US, which is kind of a bummer.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/this-gamers-secret-to-playing-valorant -at-1200-fps-is-amds-x3d-processors


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