Recent benchmark results suggested AMD might be preparing a Ryzen 7 9700X3D. A social media post, however, revealed that such a CPU does not exist and that the tests were fabricated using Linux. The poster urged gamers to treat isolated benchmark results with skepticism and to verify data before drawing conclusions.
AMD has already released several CPUs featuring 3D V-Cache. The recently launched Ryzen 7 9800X3D continues that lineage, raising the bar for PC gaming performance.
Rumors about a Ryzen 7 9700X3D turned out to be false. While AMD previously produced the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, there is currently no equivalent 9700X3D in the Ryzen 7000 family.
On Reddit, user A_Canadian_Boi described how they fabricated a PassMark result for a supposed Ryzen 7 9700X3D. By editing the /proc/cpuinfo file in Linux, PassMark was tricked into recognizing a Ryzen 7 9700X as a 9700X3D. The software did not flag any issues and the result was logged in the database.
The fake benchmark reported clock speeds higher than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, though those numbers were easily manipulated. The deception wasn’t planned from the outset.
Source: iXBT.games