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OcUK Ryzen 7 7800X3D review thread
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How to make a 5 minute video last 20.
Everyone has different needs. Any current mid tier CPU would cover my current and near future gaming requirements.
What I need most is single threaded app performance, believe it or not a lot of apps have terrible multi threading support for the CPU bound parts of the workflow. The parts that suit multi threading are generally handled by the GPU.
I'm envious of the efficiency of the new AMD platforms but I have a big ass PSU and a custom loop so I imagine I'll cope.
Buying for future adoption has never worked, MMX, SSE, RTX or direct storage. By the time that they're widely adopted the first platforms with support are out of date.
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so it turns out that buying for future upgrades has been worth it for AM4 users - just check out the 5800x3d thread. If you're care about AVX512 or energy efficiency, then you're definitely going to lean towards AMD. Even if you need the best single-threaded performance, investing in AMD is totally worth it. You can use the savings from lower energy bills and upfront costs to upgrade to an even faster CPU in just a few months. Honestly, if you're a gamer, producer, or care about energy efficiency, Intel is not the move - the cost of motherboards alone makes it impractical, and investing in a short-lived socket is just not worth it, even if it gives you a little boost in single-threaded tasks. As soon as the next round of CPUs drops, that little boost is gonna turn into a major disadvantage. But yeah, with the launch of the 3D chips, AMD is back on top in the gaming world, which just goes to show how important it is to invest in slot-in upgrades like we talked about earlier.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
I'm sure that we've both considered all the options and backed that up with our own money. Both sides have their good and bad points and we could get locked into a spiral of person maths and copium.
More importantly; - how many cats do you live with and what are they called?
7800X3D is still far behind Intel in 0.1% low fps.
This is why I’m still thinking about cancelling my preorder.
If you think that's bad try watching Paul's Hardware - that poor guy has been very slow to make new content over the last few months and at one stage took over 2 weeks to create a new video, now 90% of his videos is just him reading the news and he even posted a video saying he's thinking of quiting
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As always it’s game dependant but he does mention in his review that 7800X3D suffers from some loading stutter that’s not there on Intel side.
Edit: Actually it seems to be all over the place as GN results are different so I will have to take back what I said earlier lol.
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As always it’s game dependant but he does mention in his review that 7800X3D suffers from some loading stutter that’s not there on Intel side.
Edit: Actually it seems to be all over the place as GN results are different so I will have to take back what I said earlier lol.
TBF, that is comparing a 13900k absolutely maxed, out with highest end everything to a middle of the road 7800X3D build.
Yeah that might be why.
If the difference in .1% lows is the main driver for buying then it’s worth considering, but that difference seem very sparse in games and seems to come with some hefty costs.
My Chinese is a bit rusty.
They are guaranteed to support 65W TDP
The manufacturers are going up to 120W so you want to check exactly what the manufacturer has set if you want to run a top end CPU on the cheaper A620 boards.
Overall efficiency on the 7800X3D isn't actually that great. Something often overlooked is the idle/low load power consumption which is around 28w on the 7800X3D, compared to around 10w on an average monolithic chip. If you game on average 2 hours a day and the rest of the time is spent at idle/low loads, most if not all of that power saving during gaming would get wiped out.
Yes I agree it's something they need to improve on
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That's fair, though in my use case aside from when I download a game 90% of the time I spend on my PC is in game. Could certainly be improved however.
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Late video but heyho.. 