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5900X Upgrade to 7950X3D

The Asgard

The Asgard

The Asgard

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Hi guys,
I have the itch for an upgrade and looking for your thoughts on if its worth the hassle. Running a beautiful -30 CO plus a decent -negative offset undervolted 5900X., will even handle additional turbo boost, amazing chip. Bought on release. I'm thinking about a 7950X3D. I have a 3080 & G9 Neo. I do game when I can, looking to get Starfield ..... In the day the machine is used for software development with Visual Studio. I have looked at the stats between the two chips and there is a decent difference. Is it worth doing or should I wait for Zen 5?
 
If you believe the online reviews, if you game at 4K then performance increase will be small whereas if you game at 1080p then yes good gains.
Contrary to reviews by people like Hardware Unboxed some users on here report good gains at 4K in certain games i.e. Cyberpunk.
 
Is it the g9 87" if so upgrade I had the 4090 ( couldn't run it at 240hz so got the 7900xtx ) and the CPU fed my GPU properly, some games regardless of res are cache sensitive, if it's the non 8k or you're planning on keeping your GPU wait until zen5
 
faceman123 said:
Is it the g9 87" if so upgrade I had the 4090 ( couldn't run it at 240hz so got the 7900xtx ) and the CPU fed my GPU properly, some games regardless of res are cache sensitive, if it's the non 8k or you're planning on keeping your GPU wait until zen5
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Yes its the 49" 5120 x1440. The 3080 seems to cope well. I think I run at 100 Hz and let GSync do its thing
 
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The Asgard said:
Hi guys,
I have the itch for an upgrade and looking for your thoughts on if its worth the hassle. Running a beautiful -30 CO plus a decent -negative offset undervolted 5900X., will even handle additional turbo boost, amazing chip. Bought on release. I'm thinking about a 7950X3D. I have a 3080 & G9 Neo. I do game when I can, looking to get Starfield ..... In the day the machine is used for software development with Visual Studio. I have looked at the stats between the two chips and there is a decent difference. Is it worth doing or should I wait for Zen 5?
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I went from a 7950X to a 7950X3D and saw a nice uplift to gaming performance. A 5900X to a 7950X3D is a huge uplift in gaming performance. You’ll need a faster graphics card to even begin to stretch that 7950X3D.
 
Honestly wait for Zen 5. I have a 5900X at -20 offset and it bloody brilliant. Only game I can see that would be worth the upgrade is starfield and its still struggling on Zen4. Productivity wise I love the 5900X, currently running a 4 core linux ubuntu virtual box instance and the other 8 cores for windows IDE's etc, great bit of kit.
 
welshrat said:
Honestly wait for Zen 5. I have a 5900X at -20 offset and it bloody brilliant. Only game I can see that would be worth the upgrade is starfield and its still struggling on Zen4. Productivity wise I love the 5900X, currently running a 4 core linux ubuntu virtual box instance and the other 8 cores for windows IDE's etc, great bit of kit.
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It's just that itch, nothing wrong with my setup, just trying to justify it some how. Just fancy a play that is associated with new hardware, really miss it.
 
The Asgard said:
It's just that itch, nothing wrong with my setup, just trying to justify it some how. Just fancy a play that is associated with new hardware, really miss it.
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Fair enough, although I would still wait for Zen 5 so that you get a real feeling of power increase. Might even be all 12 cores with 3D cache by then.
 
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My friend moved from a 5900X to an 7800X3D and said the jump in frames was massive. I’m not sure what games he was talking about though.
 
I moved from a 3900X (X370) to a 7950X (B650E-E) and it’s much better for Visual Studio (depending on project type), mainly because of the IO increase from PCIe Gen 3 to Gen 4/5 and more lanes. I run ECO 65W as I don’t need maximum all core frequency, but it is nice to have the extra cores as I normally have a few VM’s running when working.
 
I'm on 5950x and 4090, contemplating a move to 7800x3d. Seems like zen5 is a year away still, and I could easily upgrade as I'd have am5 and ddr5...
 
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