• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

7600X to 7600X3D

Antony101

Antony101

Antony101

Soldato
Joined
4 Jul 2011
Posts
4,458
Location
England
So I see Overclockers have started selling the 7600X3D, do you think it'd be worth "upgrading" my 7600X for one if my PC is used for purely gaming?

The 7600X doesn't really struggle in many games I'm playing at the moment so is the 3D likely to help much?
 
If you play games that really like the cache it would help, especially if playing at a lower resolution, but that would work best with a higher-end graphics card. From what you've said, there's no point.
 
Depending on the API and graphics card driver, that could actually be pretty close to tapped out TBH.
 
Last edited:
I'm running 3440x1440 on a 9070XT. Thinking about it STALKER 2 is probably the most CPU demanding game I've played recently but I don't think that's a great game to use as an example.
 
With a 9070XT you'll be ever so slightly bottlenecked (on average) by the 7600 judging by this video and extrapolating out a bit.

 
I think its best to look for second had 7800x3d, this will future proof you very well. For those that keep their system for many years, just don't see 6 core CPU aging well going forward. Its been slow but more games are now supporting 8 core CPU and next gen consoles will have more cores and AMD might be upping the number of cores in their midrange cpu with zen6. Plus its always best to have a few more cores available that games are not using, this way the system will be responsive still specially if you run background tasks, like streaming, discord server or watching youtube video, ect.


however the 7600x3d will give you possibly up to 20% more frames, game dependent of course. Thats not to say a 7600x3d will give you bad gaming performance, its a great cpu even for gaming but I would always choose 8 or 6.

plus for the price of the brand new 7600x3d you can buy a second hand 7800x3d and second hand CPU is fine as long as you test it well when receiving it.
 
I think that it would be best to save your money in this case, youl bebetter off saving it untill the last refreash of AM5 and spending it on at least an 8 core X3D chip rather then last gens 6 core.
 
DotA said:
I think that it would be best to save your money in this case, youl bebetter off saving it untill the last refreash of AM5 and spending it on at least an 8 core X3D chip rather then last gens 6 core.
Click to expand...
Yea I'd agree with that really, makes the most sense imo. I think the move proposed by the op from a 7600 to a 7600X3D is just too small and too niche to warrant it really, it wont be a total universal upgrade.
 
Last edited:
based on the price of a 7600x3d id get a second hand 7800x3d, if upgrading from a 7600 your need to get more cores too
Antony101 said:
I'm running 3440x1440 on a 9070XT. Thinking about it STALKER 2 is probably the most CPU demanding game I've played recently but I don't think that's a great game to use as an example.
Click to expand...

if you used FSR the X3d will make a massive differance in most games, if you game at native 1440 not so much but there would always be an uplift going from a 7600.
i think i would focus on getting more cores first, somthing like a 9700x is a good choice and much faster than your 7600
 
Last edited:
I think I've decided to hold off on a CPU upgrade for now and look towards going back to ITX. We'll be looking at renovating our home office once I recovered from surgery so it'll be good to have my PC be easier to transfer to other rooms.

Once that is done I might look at how cheap I can get a 9800X3D from a certain cheap storefront.
 
I just don't see the attraction for X3D CPU's when so many YouTube reviews show your getting tiny FPS increases over the cheapest CPU even up until the 5080.

I think with current pricing and the CPU/GPU scaling being all over the place, it's not the greatest time to be buying upgrade.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom