AMD 7700 vs 7900 for gaming

[Buckster]

Wondering peoples views please ?

I'm really stuck between deciding between these 2 processors as effectively the price difference is only around £40-50

7700 - one CCD - potentially higher boost frequencies - potential to be quicker in some games than the 7900

7900 - 50% more cores - complication of dual CCDs - some games possibly slightly slower ? Some games now and in future may utilise the additional cores ? for instance one of my main games will be FS2024

FS2024 may indeed use more than 8 cores if available but its been very difficult to find many definitive views and even if it does to whether it makes any difference to frame rates

maybe if are recording a replay etc in FS2024 may start utilising more cores, more complex areas of scenery etc - hard to tell

really tough one

many thanks for any views

 

[Buckster]

thanks very much for your replies - I did consider them very carefully and they are very valid points

but I decided to go 7900 - I might regret it - just found a couple of posts where people seemed to think that FS2024 loads up all cores and that will be a benefit worth £40 to me if is the case

as I said I might regret it and I do very much appreciated all of your inputs thankyou

now Iv'e just got to work out whether to get 32gb of DDR5 CL30 or 48gb of DDR CL36

it's never ending ! going to be quite an upgrade from my Xeon E3-1225v3! - the 3060Ti won't know what's hit it lol

 

[Buckster]

Have heard things about that game pushing the ram hard, so I think you'll want as much as you can afford, even 64GB.

thats what I've heard too thankyou

if you want CL30 > 32gb it starts getting real expensive

CL38 48gb seems quite reasonable, when you get to CL30 48gb its only a tenner or so more for 64gb so at that point the 64gb becomes a no brainer

 

[Buckster]

Bought the 7900 but before opening had a change of mind and decided on a 7700x or 9700x

Whilst waiting to order I came across a reasonable deal on a 7800x3d plus mobo combo - which taking into account current price of mobo the CPU was 350. Bit more than should be but was prepared to pay the extra over and above price for 9700x

Config ended up with

7800x3d
MSI Tomahawk
64gb Kingston DDR-6000 CL30

bit of an upgrade !

 

[Buckster]

Both those cpus very nice I was tempted myself with a 7950x3d but I only have a 550w PSU (Corsair RM550) and probably pushing it (3060Ti) as is plus another 100 on top of the 100 I paid extra for 64gb. S 32gb RAM and was all getting (even more) expensive !