Question Of the AMD Ryzen 7000 and 9000 series CPUs, which for free?

[Scar Mountain]

I'm heading to Micro Center tomorrow to pick up my bundle (Ryzen 9700X w/ MB & RAM). I've also reserved a 7900XT just in case, on account of another bundle on offer: 7900XT for $750, with any AMD CPU included. They had 9800X3D in stock, just sold out, but still have 7950X3D. Who knows what will be in stock tomorrow.

Assuming full availability, at face value for long-term viability and all-around performance (including gaming), which should I collect of:

7900X3D
7950X3D
9700X
9800X3D

A top 3 with brief reasoning would be appreciated. I would probably get the 9800X3D over the 9700, but I'm not sure about the high-end 7000s.

 

[bill001g]

In general if you can get a bundle from microcenter you are not going to find a better price anywhere for similar parts.

It all depends what you main use of the machine is. Since you are looking at x3d stuff I will assume you play games. Then the issue quickly becomes which games do you play and what resolution do you play at.

Most people that spend the kind of money you are considering do not play at 1080 they run 1440 or 4k. Except for a very small number of games the cpu at that point doesn't matter much you are going to be restricted by the video card. The cpu is basically waiting for the video card to finish.

So in the end it likely makes little difference.

If you are looking to replace the chip in the future we have 9900x3d and 9950x3d coming "soon". If the predictions are correct these chips should be much faster than 9800x3d. Then again all that means is it will get higher frame numbers when they test at 1080 or on none gaming applications.

 

[Scar Mountain]

If I would essentially be able to get a 9800X3D for free, then there would seem to be no benefit to going after even newer processors later. This is meant to be a long-term build.

I'm wondering how the 98003XD would compare to the 7900 and 7950 versions, since it has a smaller cache and boost clock.