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7950X3D for gaming - what is your experience?

Zarax

Zarax

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Hi, I'm split between 7800X3D and 7950X3D for my next rig.
I know that for purely gaming the former is almost always the best choice, however my workloads sometimes do make use of machine learning (and not the kind that requires GPU) so the extra cores could be useful.
I know in the past X3D cores were preferred via the xbox app, is it still like that or did AMD improve the thread detection?

For those of you who game with a 7950X3D, what has you experience been?

Thanks in advance!
 
Zarax said:
The extra cores literally means hours saved though, we're talking about something that can take up to 3 days to complete.
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To me that says you've already made up your mind, but I would too go for the 7950X3D, the extra cores and the extra core speed, youre talking double the cores and 5.7ghz boost vs 5ghz boost, with a little tweaking you'll get it to boost to 5.9ghz.
 
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If doing anything productivity wise the 7950X3D is the way better CPU - even stuff like application installs are noticeably, albeit not massively, faster on it than the 7800X3D.
 
Jamin280672 said:
To me that says you've already made up your mind, but I would too go for the 7950X3D, the extra cores and the extra core speed, youre talking double the cores and 5.7ghz boost vs 5ghz boost, with a little tweaking you'll get it to boost to 5.9ghz.
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I honestly haven't, I barely made up my mind about going to AMD this round because I feel e-cores are an unnecessary complication, so I will go for a 7950X3D only if I can be reasonably certain it won't be too complicated to manage.
 
Zarax said:
The extra cores literally means hours saved though, we're talking about something that can take up to 3 days to complete.
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Then it's an absolute no-brainer you should go for the 7950x3d, but for things that take that long you should ideally try and find specific benchmarks. What is the program out of interest?
 
Adrianr said:
Then it's an absolute no-brainer you should go for the 7950x3d, but for things that take that long you should ideally try and find specific benchmarks. What is the program out of interest?
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XGBoost R library, it eats RAM and cores for breakfast.
But seriously guys, does anyone here have experience with it in games? Because that's what I'll do 80% of the time...
 
Very happy with mine, depending on the game I was playing and what else the PC was doing i.e. watching Streams / Youtube / discord etc the 7800x3d didn't have much room left when looking at core usage. The 7950x3d has been perfect, gaming on 1 ccd and the other ccd running the other apps.
 
Gaming will be fantastic, it is the flagship AMD desktop CPU after all! Benchmarks put the 7950X3D about 5% behind the 7800X3D (at 1080P, that'll quickly disappear at higher resolutions). Plus if you can make use of the additional cores in your work and it's going to save you huge swathes of time it seems like a no brainer.
 
I went for the 7950X (none 3D) as its better for multi-core work and its also good for games. Most games don’t need the best CPU. If games are your main priority, then the 3D is best but for me its work and the difference in games is nothing as I have 60Hz displays.
 
Glanza said:
Very happy with mine, depending on the game I was playing and what else the PC was doing i.e. watching Streams / Youtube / discord etc the 7800x3d didn't have much room left when looking at core usage. The 7950x3d has been perfect, gaming on 1 ccd and the other ccd running the other apps.
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Do you still have to do the gamebar trick with games?
 
For what it’s worth I got a 7900X3D for the extra cores and it is an excellent gaming CPU. I don’t have to mess around with cores or settings for it to give the best of both worlds.

1. Install latest motherboard BIOS
2. Install the latest official AMD chipset drivers (not the manufacturers ones)
3. Set your power profile to balanced
4. Enjoy your new CPU

In addition to above just make sure to check for AMD official chipset driver and the MS game bar updates regularly.
 
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ICDP said:
For what it’s worth I got a 7900X3D for the extra cores and it is an excellent gaming CPU. I don’t have to mess around with cores or settings for it to give the best of both worlds.

1. Install latest motherboard BIOS
2. Install the latest official AMD chipset drivers (not the manufacturers ones)
3. Set your power profile to balanced
4. Enjoy your new CPU

In addition to above just make sure to check for AMD official chipset driver and the MS game bar updates regularly.
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Why should the power profile be balanced instead of performance?
 
Zarax said:
Why should the power profile be balanced instead of performance?
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Because the performance power setting prevents the game bar app and Windows scheduler from parking the non 3D cache cores. It can mean some games decide to use a suboptimal core on the non 3D cache CCD and it causes latency issues.

Setting windows to performance is a legacy from about 15-20 years ago when Intel were drip feeding us 5% IPC dual core “upgrades” :)

I remember spending days going through a massive list of Windows optimisations because with only two cores it could hurt gaming performance. Since the advent of decent 6 core or higher CPUs, these optimisations are not worth the time.

The juice is not worth the squeeze as they say.
 
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Zarax said:
The extra cores literally means hours saved though, we're talking about something that can take up to 3 days to complete.
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Would a Thread ripper 7960x 24 core cpu be better ?

I have no idea how well a Thread ripper CPU can run games, Maybe some one else can answer this
 
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