[SOLVED] Is the 3900X still good in 2021/2022 ?

[frozensun]

Hi friends.
I'm looking now at 12700K less cores but beats my CPU in every test,not to mention games.
Fell in depression .
I mean it's only 2 y old and yet OLD technology.
I remember back in 2019 only 3950x was "stronger" CPU.
So I haven't turned on this PC for months.
My friends do you think 3900X still is powerful CPU?
I know it has large L3 cache but what is the purpose of it.
I think now at current market 3900x is just midrange CPU.
I think even 5800X beats it.
I'm so sad..

Btw happy New Year top everyone out here...

 

[Bob.B]

Hi friends.
I'm looking now at 12700K less cores but beats my CPU in every test,not to mention games.
Fell in depression .
I mean it's only 2 y old and yet OLD technology.
I remember back in 2019 only 3950x was "stronger" CPU.
So I haven't turned on this PC for months.
My friends do you think 3900X still is powerful CPU?
I know it has large L3 cache but what is the purpose of it.
I think now at current market 3900x is just midrange CPU.
I think even 5800X beats it.
I'm so sad..

Btw happy New Year top everyone out here...

In a couple of years the 12700k will be a muff.
You can go broke chasing the latest tech.

The 3900x lends itself to serious multi tasking with all the cores and threads.
Not so much for gaming.

 

[DIЯΛK]

3900X is still a very good CPU, we are talking about a 12 core CPU. Obviously newer technologies offer an improvement, that's how innovation in technology is supposed to work buddy. Maybe you won't feel so bad knowing that there are still people using 2-core CPUs for most of their daily tasks... 😬

 

[CountMike]

Hi friends.
I'm looking now at 12700K less cores but beats my CPU in every test,not to mention games.
Fell in depression .
I mean it's only 2 y old and yet OLD technology.
I remember back in 2019 only 3950x was "stronger" CPU.
So I haven't turned on this PC for months.
My friends do you think 3900X still is powerful CPU?
I know it has large L3 cache but what is the purpose of it.
I think now at current market 3900x is just midrange CPU.
I think even 5800X beats it.
I'm so sad..

Btw happy New Year top everyone out here...

Depending on usage it's not all about number of cores but their individual performance. As gaming is concerned, most are still running on up to 4 cores and a lot of SW use 1-2 cores.
Soooo... unless you are doing much parallel computing, number of cores is not significant. 3600x would do just as well. 5600x would certainly do even better as single/each core performance is what both Intel and AMD are working on for next generations. So yes, 5800x would give you significant boost in gaming, probably some 20%+ despite having less cores. It might be even cheaper than 3900x.
As for your present system, practically anything new beats it all to hell.

 

[mdd1963]

DId you consider your rig adequate for your needs just prior to the release of Intel's 12th gen? (Certainly your 3900X was/is decent, but, was likely outperformed by most 9900K/10600K and above Intel rigs and all 5000-series Ryzens above the 5600X at least in gaming...)

You really don't want to fall into the trap of 'I need to upgrade because my rig is not the fastest in existence *IF I had an RTX2080Ti, which few do'',,,; the mid -range GPUs most have are fully saturated with your current GPU, where a faster CPU would gain you almost nothing in gaming.

 

[frozensun]

Oh okay guys,but how can I take advantage of it's number of cores.
I mostly use PC only for gaming.browsing the web and office work,.no cvideo rendering,a little of audio/video encoding and that is it...
I wish I could earn money from it.

 

[frozensun]

DId you consider your rig adequate for your needs just prior to the release of Intel's 12th gen? (Certainly your 3900X was/is decent, but, was likely outperformed by most 9900K/10600K and above Intel rigs and all 5000-series Ryzens above the 5600X at least in gaming...)

You really don't want to fall into the trap of 'I need to upgrade because my rig is not the fastest in existence *IF I had an RTX2080Ti, which few do'',,,; the mid -range GPUs most have are fully saturated with your current GPU, where a faster CPU would gain you almost nothing in gaming.

This is exactly what I'm telling.
Back in 2019 only 3950X was faster.now it gets beaten by even 5800X.not to mention 12th Gen Intel.
Now makes me want to buy PC every 2 years like I trap I'm falling for years...

3900X is still a very good CPU, we are talking about a 12 core CPU. Obviously newer technologies offer an improvement, that's how innovation in technology is supposed to work buddy. Maybe you won't feel so bad knowing that there are still people using 2-core CPUs for most of their daily tasks... 😬

Maybe guys who have low income like me,but most have high end PCs,at least what I see on instagram and facebook....
But then again I MUST be happy with what I have,probably most of guys don't even have this...

 

[Bob.B]

Oh okay guys,but how can I take advantage of it's number of cores.
I mostly use PC only for gaming.browsing the web and office work,.no cvideo rendering,a little of audio/video encoding and that is it...
I wish I could earn money from it.

Without spending money the best you can do is get the machine to run as well as it can with the parts that you have.

That means doing some testing/getting the proper bios and drivers/more testing and slowly working it up to it's best.

 

[sizzling]

Oh okay guys,but how can I take advantage of it's number of cores.
I mostly use PC only for gaming.browsing the web and office work,.no cvideo rendering,a little of audio/video encoding and that is it...
I wish I could earn money from it.

You bought a cpu that you didn’t need. For those uses a 3700x/3800x would have been effectively the same performance. You didn’t really need all those threads and you cannot force games/applications to use more than they were designed to use.

Ultimately the system performs just as good as it always has. It’s still a great cpu, I’m happy with my 3700x that I’ve been using for >2 years.

There will always be something new releasing in 6-12 months. However very rarely are the improvements sufficient enough to actually be noticeable in real world workloads. It might look better in a benchmark but you won’t notice it or not enough to justify changing. You haven’t told us the rest of the system or what resolution and Hz you game at but I expect if you had the 2 systems side by side you would not be able to tell the difference or if you did it would be a very small difference.

This constant new versions applies to so many things. There are always new models of cars, phones, TV’s…………

 

[CountMike]

Oh okay guys,but how can I take advantage of it's number of cores.
I mostly use PC only for gaming.browsing the web and office work,.no cvideo rendering,a little of audio/video encoding and that is it...
I wish I could earn money from it.

That is something to think of before you buy CPU or other parts, you can't force programs to use more cores but you can do more multitasking without closing some programs.
Of what you said about your usage, even CPU with much more "power", let's say double as much is not going to massively improve gaming unless those games are struggling now. For other mundane things like web and internet as well as ordinary office work you'd get no improvement at all.
For now, 3900x is still more than enough to take on anything. There are some possible things to make it even better which are settings for full boost/PBO, cooling so it doesn't go over 70c at full and prolonged load and fast RAM (3600MHz, low Cl, 16 or under) to which Ryzen responds well as well as most programs and games providing MB can take it.

 

[Viking2121]

Honestly, Im on a 5800x system now, if someone offered me a 3900x for my 5800x, I'd do it, I don't game a ton these days, but I could use more threads for some of the stuff I do.