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5700X3D and AM4 pricing

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I felt ready to pull the trigger on this, but seeing it's only 12% cheaper than the best 5800X3D deal is throwing a spanner in the works.

I went for a 5700X last year back when the 5800X3D was double the cost of it. I felt I made the right choice at the time, especially with my relatively weak cooler. Surprised to see the 5800X3D so competitively priced now, to the point it's making the newly launched 5700X3D almost unjustifiable to purchase.

I'm wondering if AMD is absolute awash with these AM4 X3D chips and the prices can only continue to fall, especially the 5700X3D in order to get some distance from the 5800X3D.

On the other hand the 5700X / 5800X pricing is remaining weirdly high.
 

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i had the same choice and even specced my self a ryzen 7600x system and i decided to stick with my 5700x, it is a very capable cpu still and im using it on a 2k monitor with a radeon 7800xt, gpu maxing out at 100% constantly, i will wait till theres new gen ryzens out for am5 then reconsider :)
 

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I'm mostly using UW1440P @ 100 Hz. I've noticed dips in certain areas in The Last of Us P1 where my 7900 XT usage can drop to about 80%.

I played the Tekken 8 Demo at 4K60 and there were some drops during hectic cutscenes to 45 fps or so. I didn't catch whether my GPU was fully utilized as the MSI Afterburner text was set too small for that screen lol.

Just off the top of my head, I recall hearing UE5 games and even Cyberpunk doesn't benefit much from 3D V-Cache, so that's making me doubt about upgrading from the 5700X too. Still need to do a lot more research. Will keep an eye on the prices of 57/800X3D to see if either becomes a no-brainer at some point even if the benefit is uncertain.
 
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I am trying to make a similar choice. Don't see the point of the 5700x3d at current pricing. Think I will move to AM5 at this rate.
 

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Yrkoon said:
i had the same choice and even specced my self a ryzen 7600x system and i decided to stick with my 5700x, it is a very capable cpu still and im using it on a 2k monitor with a radeon 7800xt, gpu maxing out at 100% constantly, i will wait till theres new gen ryzens out for am5 then reconsider :)
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With an RDNA GPU the CPU is used much more efficiently in games.

It would be interesting to know the points GPU’s and CPU’s balance out.
 

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Was seriously considering going from my 5600 to a 57/58X3D but I've watched a couple of HUB videos where they tested bottlenecking with some CPUs and I'm GPU limited unless I move to a higher tier, I think they had a 6650 and a 6950 and at the lower level there was just barely any difference.

That was sort of nice to see and saved me spending £200!
 
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i was looking at a rig with am5 and a 7600x and looking up vids etc there wasnt much difference in games apart from the odd few, most were within a few fps to 10 fps difference and i looked up vids that compared the 7600x to the 5700x and the 580003d, the 7600x won out on average over the 5800x3d

so i will wait and get a 9000 or 10000 ryzen to replace this 5700x, costs too much money for a sidegrade at moment and spent the money i had on a 4 terbyte evo ssd for my pc and a 1tb for my steam deck, i would have massive buyers remorse if i bought a 7600x and am5 motherboard etc at the moment :)
 
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Repta said:
I am trying to make a similar choice. Don't see the point of the 5700x3d at current pricing. Think I will move to AM5 at this rate.
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AM5 is the smarter play as both the 5800X3D/5700X3D are way overpriced and are being used to milk those on AM4 into basically spending the same as a new entry level buyer would on AM5.

Considering they are using a 4 year old architecture on a 6 year old node, both should be under £200 at this point.
 

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Nodes don’t matter when it comes to pricing. What matters is performance and power consumption brackets.

The 5800X3D and slightly slower but cheaper 5700X3D are giving performance quite close to the latest and greatest. So a 5800X3D is priced similarly to a 7600X because it gives very similar gaming performance.

You also need to factor in the costs of a motherboard and RAM when going to AM5. If buying new, go AM5 but for a quick last hurrah upgrade in an existing AM4, the 5700X3D and 5800X3D give excellent VFM.

I upgraded a 5600X to a 5800X3D and saw a notable increase in FPS with a 7900XT at 1440p. In some games it was like a generational GPU upgrade with ~30% gains. It was clear that even a 5600X was holding back the 7900XT.
 
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