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2 января, 2023

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D review: The world’s fastest gaming CPU

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“The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a proof of concept that stumbled into being the world’s fastest gaming CPU.”

Pros

  • The fastest gaming CPU on the market
  • Solid thermal performance
  • Works with AM4 motherboards
  • Inexpensive
  • Low power requirements

Cons

  • No overclocking
  • Lackluster general CPU performance

The past year has been a tight battle between Intel and AMD to release the best gaming CPU. AMD held the lead with Ryzen 5000 before being leapfrogged by Intel’s 12th-gen processors, but Team Red wasn’t content to rest on its laurels. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is here to cement AMD as the champion once again.

Contents

  • Specs and pricing
  • Performance
  • Gaming performance
  • Power, heat, and clock speed
  • Our take

It has the performance of a flagship CPU with midrange pricing, far outpacing anything else that AMD or Intel has to offer when it comes to gaming. General CPU performance is down, as expected, but gamers who want peak performance can stop searching: The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the best gaming CPU you can buy in 2022.

Specs and pricing

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Intel Core i9-12900K
Architecture Zen 3 Zen 3 Alder Lake
Process TSMC 7nm TSMC 7nm Intel 7 (10nm)
Cores 8 8 16 (8 performance + 8 efficiency)
Threads 16 16 24
Base clock 3.4GHz 3.8GHz 3.4GHz
Boost clock 4.5GHz 4.7GHz 5.2GHz
Total L3 cache 96MB 32MB 35MB
TDP 105W 105W 241W

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is mostly identical to the Ryzen 7 5800X. It features the same eight Zen 3 cores, but they’re tuned slightly lower (a 400MHz loss on the base clock and 200MHz loss on the max boost clock). It’s not a great option for applications that are sensitive to core count or frequency, but that’s not the point of the chip.

For gamers, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a steal.

AMD has made it clear that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a gaming processor. That means it doesn’t need 16 cores like the Ryzen 9 5950X, nor the insane clock speeds of the Core i9-12900KS. Those compromises help the processor hit $450, which is the same list price that the Ryzen 7 5800X had at launch.

As I’ll dig into below, the chip offers flagship performance on the level of the Ryzen 9 5950X and Core i9-12900K — both processors that cost north of $600. For gamers, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a steal, despite the fact that it’s the last processor that will use AMD’s storied AM4 socket.

Let’s talk cache

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The difference between the Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 7 5800X3D is an additional 64MB of L3 cache. That might not sound like a huge deal — the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X have 64MB of cache on their own — but it’s a showcase of AMD’s new 3D V-Cache technology, and it’s pretty important.

AMD isn’t just adding more cache. It’s stacking the cache on top of the chip by shaving down the die and passing through connections directly. That means the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is able to access a massive pool of cache at breakneck speed, all while maintaining the size of a standard Ryzen 5000 processor.

It’s billed as a gaming CPU, and cache isn’t usually a big discussion point when it comes to games. But by stacking 64MB on top of the 32MB already on the Ryzen 7 5800X, AMD is giving the CPU a lot more room to process instructions without fetching them from system memory. Anyone who has used Ryzen 5000 before knows that memory speed plays a big role in gaming performance, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a boosted cache represents a big performance gain, too.

What’s important to know is that your OS sees the cache as a shared 96MB pool, not as separate 32MB and 64MB chunks. Adding more cache always increases latency, and as many early Windows 11 adopters learned, cache latency is a killer in games. AMD says that the performance gains vastly offset that increased latency, however, which shows up in my test results.

Performance

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I didn’t focus too much attention on general CPU performance because we’ve been here before. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D isn’t a great option for general processor performance. It’s slower clock speed and eight cores mean it falls vastly short of the flagships it can compete with in games.

It’s not a bad option, but even the Ryzen 7 5800X would be a better choice if you’re not concerned with gaming. You can see how the 3D-stacked model takes a loss in single-core performance in both Cinebench and Geekbench compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. All of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors fall within a certain range in these benchmarks, but the Ryzen 7 5800X3D’s slower clock speed mean it trails the pack.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9-12900K
Cinebench R23 single-core 1,460 1,531 1,989
Cinebench R23 multi-core 14,544 27,328 27,344
Geekbench 5 single-core 1,588 1,726 2,036
Geekbench 5 multi-core 10,209 14,239 18,259
Handbrake (seconds, lower is better) 69 58 47
PugetBench for Premiere Pro 882 992 1,066

Multi-core performance isn’t great either because there are only eight cores, and they top out at around 4. 3GHz based on my testing. The only oddball was PugetBench, where I was hopeful the increased cache would give the Ryzen 7 5800X3D a leg up. It doesn’t.

Gaming performance

Now for what the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is all about: Gaming. You can see the Geomean results above, showing how the processor stacks up on average to other flagships. I ran all of my tests at 1080p with an RTX 3090 and 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory, short of Halo Infinite, which I ran with an RTX 3070. For settings, there’s a mix of High to Ultra depending on the game.

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D dominates as the fastest gaming CPU you can buy. It was 6.4% faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X, while still maintaining a respectable 1.7% lead over Intel’s Core i9-12900K. Keep in mind that both the Core i9-12900K and Ryzen 9 5950X are $150 to $200 more expensive, so this is a seriously impressive feat.

Getting down to specifics, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D maintained a lead in most of the games I tested. The CPU-intensive Far Cry 6 is one to call out, with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D offering a massive 27. 8% lead over the Ryzen 9 5950X. The same is true in Fortnite, which is the type of game that should benefit a lot from additional cache. That translates into a 12.6% lead over the Ryzen 9, but parity with the Core i9-12900K.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Core i9-12900K
3D Mark Time Spy  17,078 17,922 19,396
Red Dead Redemption 2 119 fps 127 fps 132 fps
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 121 fps 119 fps 118 fps
Forza Horizon 4 247 fps 234 fps 250 fps
Fortnite 205 fps 182 fps 205 fps
Halo Infinite 127 fps 119 fps 113 fps
Cyberpunk 2077 128 fps 128 fps 122 fps
Far Cry 6 147 fps 115 fps 141 fps
Civilization VI (turn time, lower is better) 6. 6 seconds 7.5 seconds 7.3 seconds

The gains aren’t always as stark, particularly in GPU-limited games. It seems graphically demanding open-world games don’t benefit as much from the additional cache, as evidenced by Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. Forza Horizon 4 was the odd one out, with a solid 6% increase over the Ryzen 9 5950X.

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a sign of what’s to come.

In a test like 3D Mark Time Spy, the processor doesn’t show its power. But in real games, like in Civilization VI’s turn time benchmark, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D offers big improvements. AMD is offering better gaming performance for less money, with fewer cores and a slower clock speed.

If nothing else, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a sign of what’s to come. Although there are outliers, it’s clear that additional cache offers improvements in games beyond the IPC chase that’s been going on for the better part of 30 years.

Power, heat, and clock speed

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The extra cache isn’t free on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Although it doesn’t draw nearly as much power as the Core i9-12900KS, it gets a little toasty. During a multi-core Cinebench R23 run, the chip peaked at 86 degrees Celsius under a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler. During the run, however, it only pulled 101 watts at its peak.

That’s not a dangerous temperature for brief, intense workloads like Cinebench. However, it shows why AMD chose to disable overclocking on this chip. The all-core frequency during this run was 4.35GHz, and pushing it any higher would bump right up against the chip’s maximum operating temperature of 90 degrees.

In the single-core test, the processor reached 4.45GHz while consuming significantly less power — just shy of 36W at its peak. Temperatures were much better, too, peaking at 52 degrees Celsius. This is more in line with what you should expect out of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, with temperatures nearing 60 degrees Celsius with most workloads.

We’re a far cry from the power and heat levels of Intel’s competing processors, but the Ryzen 7 5800X3D still runs a bit hotter than the rest of the Ryzen 5000 range. You don’t need to invest in a new CPU cooler, but it’s something to keep in mind.

Our take

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D delivers on AMD’s promise of releasing the world’s fastest gaming CPU. It’s rare we see a CPU specifically tuned for gaming, but AMD shows that a design goal like that works. Of course, it loses the race in the Cinebench/Geekbench battle, but for gamers, that doesn’t matter.

Are there any alternatives?

There’s nothing quite like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D due to its unique packaging technology and massive pool of L3 cache. The closest thing would be either the Ryzen 9 5950X or Ryzen 9 5900X with their 64MB pools. In terms of performance, Intel’s Core i9-12900K gets close, but it’s around $150 more expensive and still not as fast in games.

How long will it last?

This is the killer. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the last CPU to use AMD’s AM4 socket, so upgrading now means that you’ll need to buy a new motherboard when you swap your CPU in the future. It should last for several years in gaming, but if AMD applies this technology to its next-gen chips, we’ll likely see even larger jumps in gaming performance.

Should you buy it?

Yes, but only with the understanding that you’ll need a new motherboard down the line. As impressive as it is, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is a little tough to recommend simply based on the time it launched and where future CPU generations are headed.

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A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen

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It’s a shame that AMD’s Threadripper processors are no longer in the reach of most enthusiast gamers because the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX just crushed a Cinebench run to net itself the world record. Proving once again that AMD’s mammoth chip is not to be trifled with.

With a multithreaded score of 116,142 in Cinebench R23, overclocker TSAIK has net themselves the world number one spot (spotted by 9550pro on Twitter ), beating out user blueleader with two AMD Epyc 7763 server chips at 113,566.

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The 5995WX is the biggest and baddest chip in AMD’s Threadripper lineup, which originally began as an enthusiast desktop CPU range. It’s not so much nowadays, however, as the 5995WX will set you back $6,499—tough to come to terms with paying that amount of money without access to the company credit card.

Still, it’s an absolute monster of a processor, with 64 Zen 3 cores with 128 available threads, running at up to 4.5GHz boost clock. That naturally gives this chip a leg-up in multithreaded benchmarks such as the Cinebench R23 run it’s dominated today, but there is of course more to this feat than mere silicon power alone.

The overclocker responsible for this run, TSAIK, has used liquid nitrogen to run this chip at 5,150MHz, which is an impressive 650MHz bump (if not more in actual clock terms), especially for a multithreaded run. With a single-threaded run you could expect to see a massive leap in clock speed, as it’s only necessary to cherry-pick the best core on the silicon and push that to its limits. Whereas with a multithreaded run you sort of need as many cores working as possible to pump up that score.

And to use liquid nitrogen on a processor worth that much money… that takes some metal. Think of the nerves you’d get setting up the pot on top of that chip, knowing that if you get something wrong you could be waving goodbye to over $6,000.

Though that does make me think this record may stick around for a while. How often is an overclocker going to have a 5995WX to hand to try and break world records with?

Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog from his hometown in Wales in 2017. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things as hardware writer at PCGamesN, where he would later win command of the kit cupboard as hardware editor. Nowadays, as senior hardware editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days reporting on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industry. When he’s not writing about GPUs and CPUs, however, you’ll find him trying to get as far away from the modern world as possible by wild camping.

90,000 The processor manufacturer who deceived the whole world is thrown down from Mount Olympus. Its sworn competitor became the leader

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    MediaTek, which in 2020 became the leader in terms of processor shipments due to cunning fraud and overtook Qualcomm, lost to it in terms of revenue in early 2022. Qualcomm was awarded the first place, and MediaTek did not even get the second place — it could only hold on to the third place, leaving Apple behind.

    Qualcomm again in the lead

    MediaTek, a manufacturer of mobile processors, has lost its leadership in this market, which it has held since 2020. According to the research company CounterPoint Research, it fell back not even to second, but to third, and its market share fell sharply.

    Researchers compared companies by revenue. Their report does not contain data on the number of shipped chips, but does take into account revenue from the sale of communication modems. The Taiwanese MediaTek was the leader in the supply of processors throughout 2021, but the gap from the American Qualcomm was minimal.

    In the first quarter of 2022, the American Qualcomm became the leader — it accounted for 44% of the total revenue in the mobile processor market. It is followed by Apple with a 26 percent share. Taiwanese MediaTek closes the top three with a score of 19%.

    Despite all its efforts, MediaTek earns several times less than Qualcomm, and nothing foreshadows changes

    Recall that MediaTek managed to succeed, including through deception. For years, it artificially inflated the performance of its processors in benchmarks so that they showed results that were not inferior, and sometimes even superior to those of Qualcomm chips.

    Indicators are growing

    Qualcomm’s revenue for the first quarter of 2022 reached $6. 3 billion. Compared to the same period in 2021, its growth was 56%.

    MediaTek ended the first quarter of 2022 with a 29% revenue growth, which cannot be compared with the success of its American competitor. While Qualcomm was betting on high-end chips and discrete cellular modems, MediaTek’s main revenue came from mid-range processors. However, the release of the 4-nanometer flagship processor Dimensity 9000 in November 2021 also affected the company’s performance.

    As for Apple, CounterPoint Research analysts do not go into details about the dynamics of its revenue. According to them, the company took second place due to increased demand for iPhone 13 smartphones, but at the same time helped Qualcomm to take the lead by buying modems for iPhone 12 and 13 from it.

    Market outsiders

    The CounterPoint Research report mentions six other mobile processor manufacturers, but their total share of global revenue is only 11%. Fourth place is occupied by Samsung, which left Russia in March 2022, with its Exynos processors and a 7 percent share. The authors of the report state a decrease in this indicator, but do not specify how much it fell. According to them, the flagship Exynos 2200 processor and weak sales of the top line of Galaxy S22 smartphones are to blame.

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    Fifth line and a 3 percent share of total revenue — the company Unisoc. Until 2018, it was known as Spreadtrum, and for many years it specialized exclusively in entry-level processors.

    HiSilicon is in sixth place with 1% of global revenue from sales of mobile processors. This is a subsidiary of the Chinese Huawei, which since the spring of 2020 has not been able to produce its own processors according to modern production standards.

    The fact that the “daughter” of Huawei is in last place in the ranking is the fault of the US authorities and personally the former President of the United States Donald Trump (Donald Trump). More than two years ago, he banned the Taiwanese company TSMC from producing processors for HiSilicon, and it does not have its own modern factories.

    The drop in HiSilicon’s performance is catastrophic — a year ago it accounted for 8% of the world’s revenue from shipping mobile CPUs. But, despite the fact that all this is a consequence of the actions of the American authorities, Huawei actively supports anti-Russian sanctions.

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    Intel will produce large-scale processors for the company that deceived the whole world

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      In the next one and a half to two years, Intel factories will begin producing processors from MediaTek. It is the world’s largest mobile CPU vendor, having achieved such significant heights by deceiving smartphone manufacturers and users. For Intel, this is the biggest customer of its new contract business. MediaTek wants to ease its dependence on TSMC, which now produces all of its processors.

      Intel has a new client

      Intel will manufacture processors for the Taiwanese company MediaTek, the largest vendor of mobile chips, Reuters writes. This is the first major deal for Intel since it became a contract chip manufacturer in early 2021.

      Intel is known for using its factories to produce exclusively its own processors and other chips, which were required to have its logo on it. Everything changed with the change of leadership — in early February 2019It was headed by her former CFO Robert Swan (Robert Swan). In two years at the helm, Swan not only failed to strengthen Intel’s position in the market, but also significantly weakened its position. He also began to sell the assets of Intel.

      In January 2021, Swan was replaced by Intel veteran Patrick Gelsinger , who immediately developed an extensive program to return Intel to its former power. Contract manufacturing is part of this large scale plan. Especially for this, a separate division of Intel Foundry Services was created.

      Transaction without details

      MediaTek is Intel’s first major customer. Details about the deal are still kept secret by both parties — there is no data either on the amount that will settle on Intel’s accounts, or on the volumes of chips ordered by MediaTek.

      There is also no idea what process technology MediaTek is interested in, but we can say that in this case it definitely does not count on ultra-modern production standards. According to Reuters, the first MediaTek processors will leave the Intel factory within the next one and a half to two years.

      On the one hand, this is quite a long time — during this time, TSMC and Samsung would definitely have time to master some new technical process for themselves, as was the case with 4 nm. They started producing chips using this topology about a year after debugging the 5nm line.

      With Intel the situation is different. All it has to offer MediaTek at the moment is 14nm and 10nm. Its own state-of-the-art Alder Lake APUs are also 10nm.

      However, it cannot be ruled out that Intel is going to test one of its production technologies that has not yet been adopted on MediaTek orders. Reuters writes about a certain Intel 16 process technology, details of which are not available. We are hardly talking about 16-nanometer standards, which in 2022 have long been obsolete.

      The benefits are clear

      Having MediaTek on the customer list is a clear benefit for Intel. The company will receive not only money, but also the opportunity to increase its influence in the market for contract manufacturing of microcircuits. The latter, however, has long been divided among other companies, and over 53% of it is occupied by the Taiwanese TSMC. (Statista.com data for Q1 2022)

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      All this confirmed in his statement and Randhir Thakur (Randhir Thakur), President of Intel Foundry Services. “It is very important for us to attract a client from Taiwan,” he said.

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      What was the interest of MediaTek in the production of its chips at Intel factories, by the time the material was released, it was not known. It does not have its own factories, but it orders all the chips it needs from TSMC.

      TechInsights 9 Analyst0051 Dan Hutcheson told Reuters there are doubts in the chip industry about whether Intel can handle contract manufacturing. At the same time, he said, the deal with MediaTek shows that it is on the right track and that its investments, including in finding the right leaders, are bearing fruit.

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      MediaTek is a big customer for Intel’s new business, but it’s still not the first. Previously, Intel has signed similar contracts with Qualcomm (MediaTek’s main competitor) and Amazon.

      Why all this MediaTek

      MediaTek is the largest manufacturer of mobile processors in the world in terms of the number of chips released. It won first place at the end of 2020 and held it throughout 2021. In 2022, the situation did not change — in the first quarter of 2022, it held 38% of the market against 30% for Qualcomm and 15% for Apple ( counterpoint research statistics).

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      As CNews reported, MediaTek achieved its current heights by different methods. One of them is the fraud of manufacturers and owners of smartphones, which consists in overestimating the CPU performance during the test in popular benchmarks. The cunning of the Taiwanese vendor was revealed by analysts from the reputable AnandTech portal back in the spring of 2020, but this did not affect MediaTek’s sales growth at all. By the way, it was she who became the world’s first CPU manufacturer to release a 4-nanometer processor.

      MediaTek confidently holds the lead of

      Most likely, the contract with Intel will allow MediaTek to increase production volumes and not depend on TSMC alone. She is known to be loaded with bookings years in advance, which allows her to regularly raise prices for her services. MediaTek itself confirms this. «MediaTek has always pursued a multi-partner strategy,» it said in a statement.

      If Intel can offer MediaTek only technical processes that are not the most modern by today’s standards, MediaTek could shift the release of CPUs of the initial and middle segments to a new partner.

      Intel already has a history of cooperation with MediaTek, but in the past it ended with the alienation of part of its business. As CNews reported, in November 2020, just during the reign of Robert Swan, Intel sold Enpirion Power Solutions division for the development of converters and voltage regulators to MediaTek.