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Poll: Ryzen 7950X3D, 7900X3D, 7800X3D

Will you be purchasing the 7800X3D on the 6th?


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I have done a fair bit of overclocking over the years and memory overclocking has been the most infuriating.

I felt like I needed one of those posters they put up in the work place with the number of days since the last accident.

"It has been these many days since the PC did some weird ****."

Stress tests just let me know it wasn't terribly unstable, but I could go weeks with unstable settings without knowing it, only to have it tap me on the shoulder or slap me in the face and often at the worst possible time.
 
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I think Intel will have to price cut the 13th gen range soon. £450 13900k would not surprise me. Even then - a few months of gaming at current electricity prices will get you back the extra investment for Zen4 X3D.

The power draw difference is HUGE.
No you wouldn't. Gaming is about 50w average difference, some games as low as 20w some as high as 70w.

At current prices that's 11p a day for 6hrs gaming which would be £41 a year. So with current pricing it would take just over 4yrs to make that back.
 
Peeps wondered how much of an effect on heat Vcache has

Now we know: It's 20c,
Adding Vcache bumps load temps on the cpu cores by 20c

So it's possible if the 7950x3d had the same 225w full load power draw as a 7950x it would reach 110-120c on AIO water cooling

And that's why Vcache places a serious restriction on voltages and power limits

 
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If you want a detailed answered (thankfully) someone else bothered to go through all the reasons: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/113ngqd/why_cpu_gaming_performance_is_compared_at_720p_a/


We already went through this. Not going to repeat myself, you can just read back.

Enjoy your 1 fps extra on Cyberpunk today (rounded up for you) and your extra fps in 5 years time when the rest of us are all on the Ryzen 9900x3d then lol.

Even if the 1% lows are significantly different from a 7600x to a 7950x in 4k I doubt its anywhere close to worth an extra £500 to "fix".

My original point still stands. For 4k gaming only its silly paying that much extra.
 
Enjoy your 1 fps extra on Cyberpunk today (rounded up for you) and your extra fps in 5 years time when the rest of us are all on the Ryzen 9900x3d then lol.

Even if the 1% lows are significantly different from a 7600x to a 7950x in 4k I doubt its anywhere close to worth an extra £500 to "fix".

My original point still stands. For 4k gaming only its silly paying that much extra.
Your post is kinda confusing though. If, as you claim, at 4k cpu performance is irrelevant, why would you upgrade to your hypothetical 9900x 3d in 5 years? You are actually proving his point, the 7800x 3d will be just as fast as the 9900x 3d at 4k. A 7600x won't. That's called longevity
 
Enjoy your 1 fps extra on Cyberpunk today (rounded up for you) and your extra fps in 5 years time when the rest of us are all on the Ryzen 9900x3d then lol.

Even if the 1% lows are significantly different from a 7600x to a 7950x in 4k I doubt its anywhere close to worth an extra £500 to "fix".

My original point still stands. For 4k gaming only its silly paying that much extra.

In 5 years most people will probably be gaming on DDR6+ APU’s
 
I just looked up the 5950x vs the 7600x to see how the same decision would have played out the start of last gen.

I'll admit there a lot closer than I'd of expected. 7600x seems to have about only +5fps at 4k.
 
Whelp.. i took the plunge, and snagged a 7950X3D. But it's quite a wait :) I found some stock in Canada. My parents live there, and will be visiting me here (but don't get here until May...) However, with exchange rate, it came in at £100 less, so (for me) it's worth the wait! :D

Besides, I still have my case and PSU on back order; so i'm not in a mega rush. (but I AM exited to build my new rig! Once i have all the parts in one place...)
 
Your post is kinda confusing though. If, as you claim, at 4k cpu performance is irrelevant, why would you upgrade to your hypothetical 9900x 3d in 5 years? You are actually proving his point, the 7800x 3d will be just as fast as the 9900x 3d at 4k. A 7600x won't. That's called longevity


No it won't. The 7950x3d already unlocks *some* extra performance at 4k from an rtx4090. 4k traditionally is only considered a GPU bottleneck because the frametimes have been so long that a slow CPU has enough time to process the next frame. But GPU are now reaching the level where the CPU has more work to do even at 4k. I'll take you a beT right now that a 9950x3d will be significantly faster than a 7950x3d at 4k with an rtx6090
 
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I have done a fair bit of overclocking over the years and memory overclocking has been the most infuriating.

I felt like I needed one of those posters they put up in the work place with the number of days since the last accident.

"It has been these many days since the PC did some weird ****."

Stress tests just let me know it wasn't terribly unstable, but I could go weeks with unstable settings without knowing it, only to have it tap me on the shoulder or slap me in the face and often at the worst possible time.

There’s no such thing as “terribly unstable.” Pick a couple of stress tests that go beyond your max use case and make sure you’re rock solid in those tests and then you have nothing to worry about.
 
I mentioned a few pages back I managed to snag three X3Ds on launch day, two from a different retailer than OcuK. Well, only OcuK actually came through and despatched the X3D on time. The other retailer, who shall remain nameless, cancelled one of my orders (oversold) and didn't dispatch the other despite supposedly having stock.
 
I mentioned a few pages back I managed to snag three X3Ds on launch day, two from a different retailer than OcuK. Well, only OcuK actually came through and despatched the X3D on time. The other retailer, who shall remain nameless, cancelled one of my orders (oversold) and didn't dispatch the other despite supposedly having stock.

Stock does seem very low for the 7950X3D, that coupled with very high demand (as expected due to fantastic performance/efficiency in reviews) means it'll likely be hard to come by for a few weeks.

My order @ OCUK went through at 10:30, still feel lucky to be early in the door and most likely in the next batch of deliveries. Good things are worth waiting for ;)
 
After seeing the results of the 7950x3d i can see why amd didnt do a 5950x3d.
7800x3d is the one gamers are gonna be on the hunt for, i suspect the delay is to build up stock
 
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