In the gaming tests I even got carried away with a certain euphoria, especially in terms of efficiency. Now the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has to prove what it is really capable of in normal applications of my workstation – aside for gaming. And this is exactly where the gray everyday life quickly catches up with you again. To say it up front: it remains really efficient and the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats its brother Ryzen 7 5800X without the 3D V-Cache in power consumption and efficiency again very clearly. But that was almost it.
Thus, the added value is limited depending on the application and there are many situations where the Ryzen 9 5900X would have been better. I’m putting this first because the price of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for productive use outside of gaming is currently simply not in relation to the available performance. Where and why the Ryzen 7 5800X3D can really score in which application and where it even has to let up due to the slightly lower clock rate is what we will learn today. Because one thing is unfortunately also clear: many of the professional applications are still optimized for Intel CPUs. That’s exactly why I compare the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (in the text later simply X3D) with its older brother Ryzen 7 5800X, the rest of the current Ryzens and Intel’s Alder-Lake squad.
And for those who haven’t read the slides about the Ryzen 7 5800X3D the other day, here’s the theory about today’s practice in pictures once again:
I rely on an NVIDIA RTX A6000 for the application and workstation test, which is also NVIDIA’s spearhead in the normal environment as a pure workstation card with its 300 watts TBP and the full expansion of the GA102, because we don’t even need more VRAM today. The test system is similar to the one used in the gaming test, except that I added some CPUs and also re-charged many things. It also remains to be said that DDR5 memory modules are still really rare in workstations and the great and fast gaming RAM is almost nowhere to be found. Not even in the store, but that’s another story altogether.
There were various games like “Shadow of The Tomb Raider” or “World War Z”, where the huge cache of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D virtually pushes everything else into the dust, but the case is now completely different in everyday work. Especially when the software generally does not like Ryzen CPUs. I’ll spoil it already to save myself a text wall in some places later: the slightly lower clock of the X3D compared to the normal X will always come into play when pure computing power is important, while some scientific calculations, similar to the mentioned games, can benefit a lot. So you will have to take a close look at whether this CPU makes sense for you or not. As a pure side-grade, it is pointless anyway and much too expensive.
Test system and evaluation software
The measurement of the detailed power consumption and other, more in-depth things is done here in the lab (where the thermographic infrared recordings are also created with a high-resolution industrial camera in the air-conditioned room at the end) on two tracks by means of high-resolution oscilloscope technology (there are also various follow-ups!) and the self-created, MCU-based measurement setup for motherboards and graphics cards (pictures below) or NVIDIA’s PCAT.
The audio measurements are done outside in my Chamber (room within a room). But everything in its own time, because today it’s all about gaming (for now).
I have also summarized the individual components of the test system in a table:
- 1 - Introduction and test system
- 2 - Autodesk AutoCAD 2021
- 3 - Autodesk Inventor 2021 Pro
- 4 - Solidworks 2021
- 5 - Various CAD Benchmarks - SPECvieperf 2020
- 6 - Rendering, Financial, Programming
- 7 - Science and Math (1)
- 8 - Science and Math (2)
- 9 - Power consumption and Efficiency
- 10 - Summary and Conclusion
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