Question What’s the performance increase?

[Catlover15]

Right now I have an i9-14900k cooled with custom loop cooling and an RTX 5090 with DDR5 64GB 5000mhz ram. I’m wondering if I upgrade my cpu to a Ryzen 9 9950x3D if it will be a performance increase. Do not recommend Ryzen 7 series instead for my work I need a Ryzen 9

 

[rgd1101]

doing what?

 

[Catlover15]

doing what?

Gaming, editing, general performance

 

[Eximo]

Well, presumably you are running high res games with a 5090, so the main burden is on the GPU.

If you drop settings to make the CPU differences more obvious, as much as 20% gaming performance depending on the title. Very much depending on the title.

General performance, probably going to go up a lot more. 9000 series is pretty good at workstation tasks compared to Raptor Lake and Zen 4.

 

[Catlover15]

Well, presumably you are running high res games with a 5090, so the main burden is on the GPU.

If you drop settings to make the CPU differences more obvious, as much as 20% gaming performance depending on the title. Very much depending on the title.

General performance, probably going to go up a lot more. 9000 series is pretty good at workstation tasks compared to Raptor Lake and Zen 4.

Thanks for the fast response! I will look more into this. I play at 1440p for a balance of good looks and fps, not 4K because of way less fps

 

[Eximo]

1440p should still show decent differences between 14th gen and an X3D chip in gaming. Some games take advantage of something in the 9000 series architecture as well for an additional boost. Presumably the same features that make Zen 5 better at non-gaming tasks. Most games show only minor differences between the 7800X3D and 9800X3D (which you can apply to the 7950X3D and 9950X3D)

There is the additional headache of getting the dual CCD X3D parts to behave when gaming as well. This has been getting better, but there are still times you may need to manually configure which CCD to run certain programs and games.