Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Ryzen 5 7600X: CPU and GPU Scaling Benchmark

[user556]

EVE runs on such an old engine that a client only uses 300MB VRAM when all settings are set to low. EVE is not a game that can be used for benchmarking.

Sounds perfect for this benchmark then.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

I had the same issues with total war, but it makes a HUGR difference in AOE2 and Sins of a Solar Empire. Idk what total war's problem is. I love the game but I end up going to play it, play a few games over about a week and then drop it for another year.

S teir game, though. I have zero complaints about gameplay

It's simple.

Total war's game engine is an abomination with 20 years of legacy fixes polluting the thing.

Yeah, people making weird claims like that and usually they are just wrong. People have been saying thr same about rts games and how 3d cache makes so much difference, when I tested a very heavy scene in total war that wasnt the case.

"I didnt see it therefore it doesnt exist"

Cool story bro.

 

[Dirty Bird]

I just upgraded to a 9800x3d from a 5800x3d. Considering I game at 4k, I honestly didn’t need to upgraded as the 5800x3d(with a proper memory set up) runs games at 4K as well as the 9700x. But I do love having an X3D chip that runs at 5.2ghz plus.

 

[Liranan]

Sounds perfect for this benchmark then.

It's a single threaded game and not good for benchmarking as it's very hard to recreate the same scenario. Are you going to bench the battle of B-R, Jita, Mining in an empty system or run uncursions with 50 others? MMO's are not good benchmarking tools.

 

[user556]

I think you've taken the benchmark thing a little too seriously. We're just looking to list CPU heavy games is all. And it'd be nice to see the impact on those games that the X3D parts bring.

 

[HallowFeind]

That B350 board is holding that 5800X3D back. You can get a x570 for cheap now used. That would be a small upgrade for now but it will give CPU some legs to run instead of crawling. Just a thought!

 

[HallowFeind]

I agree. Im a little bias on these benchmarks though. I went from a 9600x to a 9800X3D and am using a 6800XT and my games got a boost of at least 10% so I don't know how Hardware Unboxed (these benchmarks were done by them) does their benchmarking but I know what I gained and im happy I got the 9800X3D.

 

[LimyG]

The 9070XT is more popular than the 9070…
I was curious to see why the latter was chosen instead of the faster.
Then, as I was progressing thru the testing I understood why the slower 9070 was chosen.
But then I decided to ignore all that and focus on the CPU scaling which yielded good, usable results.

Yes, I agree. There are good reasons for using the 9070, but as this is an enthusiast site, I suspect most people here would get the 9070XT - if available at a reasonable price.

I do hope the xt is included in future.

However, this is a really good idea to review CPUs paired with GPUs. So it's good.
I look forward to more of these articles. Must take quite a while to do, so thank you for this and upcoming pairing reviews.

Thank you.

 

[Liranan]

Yes, I agree. There are good reasons for using the 9070, but as this is an enthusiast site, I suspect most people here would get the 9070XT - if available at a reasonable price.

I do hope the xt is included in future.

However, this is a really good idea to review CPUs paired with GPUs. So it's good.
I look forward to more of these articles. Must take quite a while to do, so thank you for this and upcoming pairing reviews.

A UE5 game would be great, but I know there are newer versions of UE5, and how well devs optimize the UE5 environment sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. Still, it's being used a fair bit so if it makes sense (due to widely varying dev implementations of UE5) that would be even better!

Thank you.

Didn't Tim make a video about how awful UE is?

 

[LimyG]

Didn't Tim make a video about how awful UE is?

Yeah, he did. I edited that bit out.

 

[Jack77]

I'm more worried about PCIe gen 3. ...

Just like HallowFeind I would recommend you to buy a new MB and stick with that for a while. It's a relatively cheap upgrade to prolong the useful life of the rest.
A new B550 or a second-hand X570 would allow you to run your GPU at PCIe 4.0 x16 AND at least one NVMe drive at PCI 4.0 speeds. Having your SSD run at PCIe 4.0 will at the very least will reduce texture pop-in.

Please mind that at least the B550 is not that generous towards memory overclocking, especially not with 4 sticks.