Transform your gaming experience and protect the western frontier of Pandora in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Enhance your PC with the stunning clarity of AMD Radeon™ graphics and the unbeatable performance of AMD Ryzen™ processors. Discover the ways of the Na’vi and become the hero of your story with AMD. Bundle Period: 7th Nov – 30 Dec, 2023 Eligible Processors: Overall, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D’s performance placed it more on par with the Ryzen 5 7600 and the last-generation Intel Core i5-12600K. However, the Core i5-12600K also defeated the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in each of these tests. The Ryzen 5 7600 was generally slower than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, with its two fewer cores, but in single-threaded tests it too held the upper hand over the 7800X3D. If you're concerned about building a gaming-focused rig and everything else is a secondary concern, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is by far the superior chip over the 13900K in terms of both outright performance and value. However, the Core i9-13900K is a better option than the 7800X3D if you use productivity applications frequently, and ensuring the highest level of performance is paramount. You should also consider that AMD has both the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 97900X3D on offer, both of which offer more cores for the productivity minded while maintaining 13900K-beating levels of gaming performance. Just be prepared to pay for the privilege of faster gaming performance. Get Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora when you buy select AMD Ryzen processors, AMD Radeon RX series graphics cards or an AMD powered PC. The Core i9-13900K vs Ryzen 9 780X3D vs Core i7-13700K battle yields a tie in this category. All three chips support DDR5 and the PCIe 5.0 interface, meaning none have an inherent connectivity advantage.

A processor that has impressive performance might fit well in a high-end work system, but be an unaffordable option for a home PC. A relatively low-performance chip might appear inadequate at first but be an ideal solution in a small form-factor PC where cooling and power limitations prevent power-hungrier chips from being used. The Core i9-13900K is a superior offering if you're interested in performance in productivity applications. Still, the Core i7-13700K offers the lion's share of the 13900K's performance at a lower price point. In gaming, the Core i7-13700K offers similar raw and system-level pricing to the 7800X3D when you factor in the fps-per-dollar, thus also earning it a win in the pricing category. The higher cost of AMD's motherboards generally adds more cost to your build than Intel's platforms, and the price premium for DDR5 also continues to add cost: At higher capacities, you'll pay nearly twice as much for DDR5 memory as DDR4 memory, and DDR5 is a strict requirement for AMD's 7800X3D. The rest of the test results were mixed, with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D unable to secure any more clear wins. Performance in the rest of these tests were all close together, which does show that, with a card like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, at least with this game subset, you won’t see much in the way of a performance benefit from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. You will likely need, as AMD advised us, a top-tier card like an RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 to see the 7800X3D pull away. But when you consider that 0.44%—that's less than half of one percent!—of PC gamers are using a GeForce RTX 4080 or 4090 per March 2023's Steam Hardware Survey these days, that's a niche within a niche's niche. Integrated Gaming Tests

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The 7800X3D's worst performance against the 13900K was Returnal, where it averaged about 12.5% fewer fps, while still managing an impressive score of 224 fps. Meanwhile, the 7800X3D battled the 13900K to a technical decision in Total War: Warhammer III (552 fps for the 7800X3D to the 13900K's 594 fps), while handily beating the more powerful processor in F1 2022 and Tiny Tina's Wonderland. A few days ago Nintendo released a Youtube video on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. After a few hours, the video had 6 million views and 20,000+ comments. You can tinker with the performance profile to a degree in the Ryzen Master utility if you need to eek out some extra non-gaming performance, but how effective that will be will take a lot more testing on my part than I have time for in this review. Personally, I wouldn't even want to push it further than where its at, since the prospect of a processor running under 100W paired with a newer GPU running less than 200W has me seeing mini gaming PC builds dancing through my head.

AMD's 3D V-Cache tech doesn't accelerate all games evenly, so the lead could vary depending on your gaming selection. In either case, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the current gaming champ, and it often isn't a close contest. That's especially true in some game titles, like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2021 and F1 2021. The chip also drops into AM5 motherboards that support the latest connectivity tech, like PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, and AMD plans to support the platform until 2025+. In contrast, Intel’s current round of motherboards will only support one more generation of chips, so upgradeability remains an advantage for AMD. Finally, I took all of the datapoints I'd gathered and compared the average scores of each processor tested for this review against its retail price, current as of this review, to measure how good of a value this processor is or isn't. AMD have really nailed this CPU for gamers who didnt want to splash out on the 7900X 3D or 7950x 3D versions if they have no workstation needs (I do use keyshot, blender and solidworks however and this is still more than sufficient in those apps). In honesty after this release I genuinely see even less reason why they even bothered to launch the 7900X3D version, it just seems they wanted to embarass intel on all available price points rather than it serving any actual purpose to the consumer. For our AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D testing, we are using the following test system: AMD Ryzen 7000 Series System (DDR5) Meanwhile, we've also carried over some older (but still relevant/enlightening) benchmarks from our CPU 2021 suite. This includes benchmarks such as Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, and Dr. Ian Cutress's 3DPMv2 benchmark.

As for power usage, officially the 7800X3D has a TDP of 120W, but it didn't even come close to this in my testing, often using a full third less power than it's rated for. Once official drivers get updated after this chip launches, I expect there to be more utilization of the available power potential, but it might not be much more and honestly, it doesn't need it. It gets phenomenal performance for significantly less power than competing chips, so why mess with a great thing? In contrast, Intel's chips consume far more power in every type of workload, resulting in higher thermal output. Touching on the CCD situation with theRyzen 7 7800X3D, unlike the other two V-Cache-equipped X3D Ryzen 7000 parts, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D features one core complex die (CCD) and one centralized I/O die. This is in contrast to the 7900 series chips, which used two CCDs. To differentiate which each chip has in terms of cores, and CCDs, I've dissected both below:

The most amazing thing about the gaming performance of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, honestly, is its efficiency. All of the scores I got from my testing never pushed more than 80W of power through the chip, and at less than 80 degrees Celsius, you won't need a beast of a cooling solution for this processor. It looks like some AMD motherboard BIOSes were set up incorrectly and could cause the 7800X3D and other AMD CPUs to burn themselves in rare circumstances. New motherboard BIOS versions have been released since the problems were reported to solve the underlying issue. It may be by the slimmest of margins over its own sibling, but on average, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the fastest gaming chip money can buy, dethroning the 7950X3D at a much friendlier price point. It is also much faster than both of the Intel contenders.In addition to synthetic tests, I used this processor as my main gaming chip for a few days to informally measure real world performance, while noting any games where performance was particularly exceptional in either direction. For gaming-centric rigs, the Core i9-13900K doesn't offer enough gaming performance to justify its price premium over the 7800X3D, and its other deficiencies in pricing and power consumption hurt its broader overall score. However, the 13900K vs 7800X3D contest isn't as much of a blowout win as the score implies. In the end, both of these processors have their own distinct advantages and disadvantages depending on your target use case. As a reminder, the 3D V-Cache doesn’t accelerate all titles equally. Therefore, you should also look at the individual game benchmarks in the above album to assess the overall trend. As always, the AMD vs Intel competition can vary based on the title and the GPU you use, so it's best to make an informed decision based on the types of titles you play frequently. As for AMD's competition, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is up against Intel's 13th Gen Core series, specifically the Core i9-13900K and Core i7-13700K. While the Core i7-13700K is in the same price range as the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, it's worth noting that we didn't receive a sample of this particular Intel processor for testing. Instead, we reviewed the Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K at their launch in October of last year.

To qualify for this promotion, any gaming laptop MUST contain both and AMD Ryzen Processor AND an AMD Radeon Graphics card from the list below: Processors: Surprisingly, after equipping both chips with DDR5, we basically have a tie with the 13700K on a Z790 board and the 7800X3D on an X670. The Core i9-13900K simply isn't worth the cash if you're aiming solely for gaming, but it has its own attractions on the productivity side. But the main reason none of my friends are upgrading their PC is not even the price, it's just that PC games have been so bad lately. Calling these test scores for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D uninspiring for the money wouldn’t be too far off of the mark. We don’t say such things lightly, but all of the processors we just named cost less—some, like the Ryzen 5 7600 and the Core i5-12600K, by hundreds of dollars. Regardless, the Core i5-12600K had as much as a 12% performance advantage in select tests, and the two chips effectively tied in the best test-case scenario for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The cheaper Ryzen 7 7700X was also faster than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D by as much as 24%. Gaming Tests In fact, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D appears to fall into the standard 65W profile that specs a maximum of 88W of power consumption (PPT). AMD has spec'd a higher 120W TDP rating for the 7800X3D, but it appears to be running closer to the 65W TDP envelope during normal use — given our measurements, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D's 120W TDP rating seems far overprovisioned. This means the chip is basically operating in Eco Mode, which confers massive power consumption and efficiency benefits.Any gaming PC containing one of the AMD Ryzen Processors and/or AMD Radeon Graphics Cards from the list above will be eligible for this promotion. Eligible Gaming Laptops: The latest CPUs in the AMD Ryzen 7000 Series are here. Teased at CES 2023, the X3D Ryzen 9 models are finally hitting the shelves!As of April 6 th, we now also have an X3D Ryzen 7 model too! Unfortunately, this does not apply to the 7800X3D, which only has eight V-Cache-accessing cores. This translates into a lower 4.20GHz base frequency, compared to the 4.5GHz of both the 7950X3D and 7700X, and a boost frequncy of just 5.0GHz, compared to 5.7GHz and 5.4GHz for the 7950X3D and 7700X, respectively. This is also slower than the top speed of the Core i7-13700K, which boosts up to 5.40GHz from 3.40GHz base frequency.