re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Rip Blue, decapitated. Pour it out.

y'all, i'm thinking of upgrading my CPU, and i've seen alot of love for the 5800x3D. is that really the best one out of the 5000 series. they seem to be sold out everywhere though compared to a 5900x. are there any pros/cons to these?

7000 series isn't really an option for me at the moment.

antonline has the 5800x3d for $329 + uncharted bundle. have you guys ever ordered form them? what's the usual timeframe?

I've ordered from there. No issues at all

i had a 3600x

i'm in the low 100s with 1440p.

3080 FE.

The AMD site had some bundles that were insane. You can get a 6900xt and 5800 for 1200

Excuse me, it’s a 6950XT paired with the 5800x3D for 1028$



7900x and 6950Xt for 1173$

aight, josh. i must've done something wrong because i got no improvement with this 5800x3d processor.

3600x


5800x3D






so yeah, the 5800x3D doesn't seem to be a viable upgrade from a 3600x.


and now i'm a little peeved that i spent $350 for this thing.

Finch, look at the CPU segment of the benchmark.

You went from 123fps average to 264fps, a 114% increase. You went from 100fps as the average of the lowest quintile to 211fps, a 111% increase. You went from 83fps as a 1% low to 174fps, a 110% increase.

But your "problem" is that you went from being 34% CPU bound to 1% CPU bound, and your average GPU frames went from 107fps to 95fps (likely just run to run variance, or possibly a driver issue? I notice you updated your NVIDIA driver). So yeah, massive CPU upgrade, but if you have settings that make you primarily GPU bound, you're not going to see much of an uplift

ETA: I imagine I'm preaching to the choir, but in case there's someone reading who doesn't understand what they are looking at with those benchmarks: historically, benchmarks just spit out the frames per second of what your total system was able to display. However, more modern benchmarks can calculate the frames your CPU is processing and your GPU is processing as separate values. Your system will always only be able to display the lower of the two numbers, whichever component that might be. And whichever number it's using tells you whether the system is "GPU bound" (like Finch's), or "CPU bound". Knowing your bind tells you what's worth upgrading, or whether you need an upgrade at all.