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frontpage Posted by thegreatpotato • Jan 27, 2023
Jan 27, 2023 2:46 PM
Select Micro Center Stores: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4Ghz 8-Core/16-Thread Processor
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Get this is you are already on an am4 platform and your priority is gaming. And not planning on a new build for a few years.
If you doing a new build, go with the new am5 instead, and it should last years on this socket.
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I currently have Ryzen 7 3700x and would be interested in getting a good, last run processor and then upgrade in 5 years or more.
I just picked up 6800 (not XT) and have 32GB ram, use is light gaming but mostly used for office type work (spreadsheets, programming, etc).
Reading online, the 5800x3d is geared more towards gaming while 5900x might be more "future proof". Someone on reddit posted a link to someone who measured FPS and the 5800x3d seemed to blow away the 5900x on some games. That is enticing right there!
I currently have Ryzen 7 3700x and would be interested in getting a good, last run processor and then upgrade in 5 years or more.
I just picked up 6800 (not XT) and have 32GB ram, use is light gaming but mostly used for office type work (spreadsheets, programming, etc).
Reading online, the 5800x3d is geared more towards gaming while 5900x might be more "future proof". Someone on reddit posted a link to someone who measured FPS and the 5800x3d seemed to blow away the 5900x on some games. That is enticing right there!
I currently have Ryzen 7 3700x and would be interested in getting a good, last run processor and then upgrade in 5 years or more.
I just picked up 6800 (not XT) and have 32GB ram, use is light gaming but mostly used for office type work (spreadsheets, programming, etc).
Reading online, the 5800x3d is geared more towards gaming while 5900x might be more "future proof". Someone on reddit posted a link to someone who measured FPS and the 5800x3d seemed to blow away the 5900x on some games. That is enticing right there!
Also, more cores don't necessarily mean greater performance. They might optimize games to utilize more cores in future games but at least in the foreseeable future a 6c/12t should do very well.
I currently have Ryzen 7 3700x and would be interested in getting a good, last run processor and then upgrade in 5 years or more.
I just picked up 6800 (not XT) and have 32GB ram, use is light gaming but mostly used for office type work (spreadsheets, programming, etc).
Reading online, the 5800x3d is geared more towards gaming while 5900x might be more "future proof". Someone on reddit posted a link to someone who measured FPS and the 5800x3d seemed to blow away the 5900x on some games. That is enticing right there!
I was kind of leaning toward 5800x3d just because the boost in gaming specs seems cool, and the thermals should hypothetically be better than the 5900x since it pulls about 25W less (this matters more for ITX).
Ironically, the performance per watt is better still with a 5700x (45W less than 5800x3d) . So maybe that's on the table, being a 50% improvement for me (tho only 15-20% for you). Apparently even the 5950x is lower wattage than the 5900x--better binning--but ain't nobody got money fo' dat.
5800x3d has four fewer cores than the 5900x, but I have to wonder if most applications can even make use of 12 cores and 24 threads in the first place. And from a productivity standpoint, I don't even really have a problem with my current 3600.
So I guess the question is how important is gaming to you, and will you notice a difference in either gaming or productivity? Future proofing is kinda hard because you don't know what the landscape will look like in a few years. Personally, it seems like the longer I wait, the more likely it is that I'll keep what I have.
Sorry if none of this was helpful. Maybe you'd like to watch the Gamer's Nexus review [youtube.com] of the 5800x3d.
Get this is you are already on an am4 platform and your priority is gaming. And not planning on a new build for a few years.
If you doing a new build, go with the new am5 instead, and it should last years on this socket.
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If you have an am4 build already, just go for this and see what Intel has in store with their next socket or how the 7000 series of X3D chips perform. The 5800X3D will hold its value considering its current going price of $300;.
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