The wait for AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and its new V-Cache technology is over. Finally, this revolutionary processor has been on sale in stores for only a few days. More specifically, since April 20.
However, unlike other Ryzen 5000 series processors, this particular chip shines bright in specific scenarios and dims a bit in more specific scenarios. This is why the AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D it is not the best solution for everyone.
We have extracted the most important information to get you up to speed quickly and help you with your purchase decision. We are also evaluating the needs of this new chip in terms of architecture and memory so as not to surprise you when purchasing.
The chip makes the games fly
It’s a reality. Among other CPU models like the Ryzen 5000, the 5800X3D takes the crown as the fastest of the bunch in environments video game. At 1080p High or Ultra resolutions, it boosts 5800X performance by up to 44% depending on the game.
In more common situations, the gain is between 22% and 28%. At 1440p quality we clearly see an average improvement of around 11% over the standard chip version.
This new processor also stands out from Intel’s best chip, the Core i9-12900K which currently costs $654.45. In fact, we can safely say that the battle between AMD’s 5800X3D and Intel’s Core i9-12900K largely ends in a draw.
This does not mean that they offer the same performance. You will often see a clear winner in individual games, but alternate. For example, at 1080p the 5800X3D may outperform the 12900K by 5% in one title, but in another the 12900K outperforms by 7%. The margins are very thin.
The story is similar at 1440p, although the gap is reduced a bit. Sometimes the Core i9-12900K gets a double digit advantage when paired with faster DDR5 type memory modules.
(For all the background details, take a full tour of the 5800X3D reviews on other websites like Tom’s gear, TechSpot oh Gamer on PCamong others).
Taken together, the benchmarks can give a small advantage (around 2%) to any of the chips, depending on the games we used for testing.
In short, if you play a particular game all the time, take a look at its benchmark results. Otherwise, the 5800X3D makes sticking with AM4 and DDR4 still attractive in specific scenarios.
Slower on productivity tasks
But whatever good it manages to deliver in gaming, the AMD 5800X3D lacks in other areas, as it’s noticeably slower when it comes to tackling applications and environments beyond beyond games.
Think rendering, encoding, and even using photo editing apps like Adobe Photoshop. For many, these are situations where time is money if it turns out that you also want to tackle specific projects for the work you do.
In multithreaded tasks, the Core i9-12900K (16 cores, 24 threads) and Ryzen 9 5900X (12 cores, 24 threads) outperform the 5800X3D (8 cores, 16 threads).
Benchmark results can show an advantage of up to 39% for the Core i9-12900K and over 25% for the Ryzen 9 5900X. Even compared to the standard 5800X, the 5800X3D shows a performance drop of 5-6%.
Unable to overclock
As always, one of Ryzen’s advantages over Intel Core processors has long been the ability to do overclocking on any chip model. This is not the case with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as it does not support this practice to improve its performance.
During its introduction, Marketing Director Robert Hallock confirmed that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D’s option to adjust voltage or frequency on a motherboard’s UEFI interface would be blocked.
He also explained that the feature was removed due to the chip’s 3D V-Cache, which requires a hard-coded voltage limit. Unfortunately, you get what you get with the 5800X3D. You will not be able to get any additional returns from these practices.
It costs more than a Ryzen 9 5900X
Yes, indeed you read that correctly. With a current RRP of $499.90, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is more expensive than AMD Ryzen 9 5900X which costs $436.59 in any store like PcComponentes.
It also costs around $100 more than the Ryzen 7 5800X standard, which makes a huge difference if you’re not really going to take advantage of the extra potential. Price sensitive integrators may not be able to justify the increase to buyers.
It’s better for updates (in specific cases)
You’re not mistaken if at this point you think the Ryzen 7 5800X3D sounds like a niche chip. Due to its exclusive focus on gaming, this processor actually works best for people in two specific areas.
In the first group are those who can’t afford the extra $100 for a Core i9-12900K but still want the best gaming performance possible, so much so that they’re willing to ignore the Core i7-12700K cheaper than $463.45.
This Intel chip is only slightly slower in games, but it performs more evenly across the board, making it a better buy for a typical PC setup.
In the other group are people with older Ryzen systems who could use a boost: anyone with a 3000-series or earlier Ryzen chip. (Spoiler: we may soon have information on this subject…).
The real winners are people like our PCWorld reporter Brad Chacos, who still has a Ryzen 7 1800X and an X370 board.
Thanks to the magic of AMD’s AM4 platform, first-generation Ryzen computers can achieve nearly Core i9-12900K-equivalent gaming performance at less than half the price of Intel’s architecture.
Thus, it guarantees a great compatibility of components and motherboards to be able to update the configurations of previous years at a low price, which is rather a reward for the first users of AMD Ryzen chips.
Original article published in PC World United States.
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