Question Which Ryzen X3D CPU should I choose ?

[Barrdock]

Hello

Which Ryzen X3D CPU from those listed below is the best choice to pair with a 7900 XTX GPU for playing strategy and simulation games mostly, and some racers ?

• Ryzen 9800X3D
• Ryzen 9900X3D
• Ryzen 7950X3D

 

[helpstar]

• Ryzen 9900X3D

 

[Barrdock]

• Ryzen 9900X3D

Because it has more cores than 9800x3d and less but stronger cores than 7950 x3d?

 

[logainofhades]

9800x3d for sure. The 9900x3d and 7950x3d have to use core parking, because only one die has the 3d cache.

 

[Phaaze88]

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9900x3d-review/2

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6JGU7ZrWM



9800X3D...

 

[geofelt]

Passmark rates the single thread performance of the 9900X3d highest.
Games like sims tend to depend on single thread performance.

 

[Zerk2012]

Hello

Which Ryzen X3D CPU from those listed below is the best choice to pair with a 7900 XTX GPU for playing strategy and simulation games mostly, and some racers ?

• Ryzen 9800X3D
• Ryzen 9900X3D
• Ryzen 7950X3D

9800X3D

 

[JayGau]

The 9900X3D has its 12 cores distributed equally on the two CCDs, which means that only 6 cores have access to the 3D v-cache. So when gaming, it behaves like a 6-core X3D CPU, while the two others have 8 cores running with the 3D cache. It's really not a big deal in most games, but if a title takes advantage of multi-core CPUs you gonna be penalized.

The 7950X3D is from a generation that still had the cache die on the top of the compute die, so AMD had to cripple its clock to prevent overheating. None of the 9000X3Ds has this problem since the cache die is now under the compute one.

The 9800X3D is without a doubt the best choice if you are mostly using the computer for gaming (and it's the less expensive of the three). It will use its 8 cores with the 3D v-cache and can boost at max clock on all cores for productivity tasks (if well cooled).

If you need more than 8 cores for productivity, the 9900X3D will give you overall better gaming performance than the 7950X3D in most games, but slightly lower multi-threaded performance.

If you want best of both worlds, then you need to go with the 9950X3D, with the price tag that comes with it.