Review AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Review: Devastating Gaming Performance

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AMD’s $480 Ryzen 7 9800X3D comes armed with eight cores and 16 threads paired with a new version of the company’s game-boosting 3D V-Cache tech that delivers impressive performance, taking the throne as the fastest gaming CPU on the market.

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[-Fran-]

Thanks a lot for the review, Paul.

Calling this a (gaming) bloodbath is being mild. Holy cow...

"How screwed is Intel after this?
Yes"

EDIT: Thanks Jarred for the YT side as well! I was thinking if you were going to do it again

Regards.

 

[ingtar33]

christ, AMD really was understating how good a gaming cpu this was.

what a beast. +30% fps gain going AMD x3D over intel. It's like 2012 all over again, only instead of intel styling on amd it's amd styling on intel.

 

[YSCCC]

Now this is seriously tempting for the gaming only PC for power usage and performance. and it isn't bad if occasionally do production usage either

 

[ingtar33]

Now this is seriously tempting for the gaming only PC for power usage and performance. and it isn't bad if occasionally do production usage either

I think a 30% fps increase team red over blue would make it so that you'd need some serious productivity reasons to even consider intel at this point. furthermore the 9950x exists... and that will out perform intel in gaming as well (not by nearly as much but the productivity will be on par)

 

[Loadedaxe]

Currently there is no reason to buy Intel, even in productivity. It cost more and performs worse.


Intel....its time to step up. Team Red is winning in everything!

 

[stuff and nonesense]

GN comes up with closer numbers 7800x3d vs 9800x3d but still significantly quicker. For gaming if you have the cash budget it’s pretty much the only sensible choice…

 

[TheHerald]

Looks pretty awesome.

 

[smartshaded]

this so so sad, alexa play lonely falcon from crusade

 

[TheHerald]

Is there any chance of putting this into an ITX case with a tiny pure lock LP type of cooler or the increased power draw makes this a nogo? Kinda thinking of pulling the trigger.

 

[dalek1234]

Have we ever seen such a gaming performance uplift from one gen to the next in the past? I don't recall myself. This is one impressive CPU.

So AMD does a +30% gaming performance improvement from one gen to the next, while Intel does a -5%. How times have changed.

 

[stuff and nonesense]

There is always a chance but consider an itx case one size bigger and liquid cool. Any case so cramped that it needs low profile fans will be constricted , airflow will be a pain.

@TheHerald

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Intel needs to launch bartlett lake NOW!

 

[magbarn]

What a beast of a chip. Even blows away the "productivity minded" 285K in photo/video editing, which is what I do with my 13900K. Can't wait for the 9950X3D!

 

[TheHerald]

There is always a chance but consider an itx case one size bigger and liquid cool. Any case so cramped that it needs low profile fans will be constricted , airflow will be a pain.

@TheHerald

I despise AIOs which is a me problem I guess. Yeah, airflow is going to be an issue since ill be putting the 4090 in there once the 5090 is released

 

[Albert.Thomas]

AMD claims to beat the 285K by 20%, but in our tests, the 9800X3D is an incredible 35% faster. AMD says the 9800X3D is 8% faster than the $450 Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but again, we measured a much higher delta, with the 9800X3D being 14.7% faster in our test suite.

With the exception of Ryzen 9000 non-X3D, AMD usually sandbags its benchmarks by having GPU bottlenecks.

 

[PC4CAB]

Appreciate the review. I literally just bought a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. I will be using it primarily for flight simulation at a flight school, with a secondary use as an office PC. Did I make a mistake? Should I return the 9 7950X3D for the 7 9800X3d?

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[stuff and nonesense]

Appreciate the review. I literally just bought a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. I will be using it primarily for flight simulation at a flight school, with a secondary use as an office PC. Did I make a mistake? Should I return the 9 7950X3D for the 7 9800X3d

Look at reviews of the 7800x3d… add a few percent, compare the results with the 7950x3d in your chosen application.. only you can choose!

(I haven’t seen a MS Flight Simulator result yet hence referring to the 7800x3d)

 

[PC4CAB]

Look at reviews of the 7800x3d… add a few percent, compare the results with the 7950x3d in your chosen application.. only you can choose!

(I haven’t seen a MS Flight Simulator result yet hence referring to the 7800x3d)

Thank you. Will do.

 

[YSCCC]

Thank you. Will do.

For a MSFS heavy player, I would say for 1080P ultra setting the 14900k running all P core 5.9ghz have slight bottleneck to the 3070Ti, for 7800X3D I think the bottlenecking is quite resolved for the 4090 already, especially at higher resolution AFAIK, imo if the scheduling issue is solved the 7950X3D should be good enough, as the background data do need some threads, especially in the coming FS2024. For prepard 3D which is more for flight school, you might want to look for the bottlenecking source is GPU or CPU.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Appreciate the review. I literally just bought a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. I will be using it primarily for flight simulation at a flight school, with a secondary use as an office PC. Did I make a mistake? Should I return the 9 7950X3D for the 7 9800X3d?

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I assume you had your reasons to get the 7950X3D over a 7800X3D, if you need MT performance maybe return the CPU and wait for the 9950X3D but that might be a while yet.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Thank you for the review @PaulAlcorn and I'm really liking the addition of newer more CPU demanding titles like BG3, my love for the game notwithstanding. @JarredWaltonGPU are you planning to change your test setup for the upcoming GPU launches to a 9800X3D based rig?

 

[yankeeDDL]

Thanks a lot for the review, Paul.

Calling this a (gaming) bloodbath is being mild. Holy cow...

"How screwed is Intel after this?
Yes"

Regards.

I find it odd that the 14900K is considered a "solid contender" offering a whopping 41% better performance in multi-core ... but at 2X the power consumption.
Wouldn't the 9900X, which only has a 7% lower multi-core performance compared to the 14900K but is 15% cheaper at half the power be a much, much better option than the 14900K for non-gaming workloads?!?

 

[stuff and nonesense]

Thank you. Will do.

FWIW, Ancient gameplays shows :

RX7900xtx
DDR 5 6000 CL36

7800x3d gives 168fps
9800x3d gives 194fps

 

[Amdlova]

I need to pair this cpu with the 4060 true power