Temperatures and clock rates
The fact is that the new positioning of the 3D cache has definitely paid off, even if the CPU does get crisply hot under full load. Of course, PBO2 and the OC also contribute to a decent thermal load, but in a Blender loop of my igoBOT animation over 15 minutes, the final temperature is only 81 °C. In the continuous gaming loop with 94 watts, it is only 69 °C and yes, long live a real water cooling system. With an AiO, the full load is likely to be closer to 90 °C and with air cooling, the air will certainly run out.
The gaming clock rate of around 5.2 GHz or 5.4 GHz with OC and UV was exactly where it was advertised, so everything fits.
Summary and conclusion
Where do you place the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a 529-euro CPU that can do many things even better than its direct predecessor, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and which holds its own in gaming, but runs into the same graphics card limit in the higher resolutions and settings as its predecessor? Hardly anyone will play at 720p and even in Full HD, the FPS figures generated by a Ryzen 7 7800X3D are still easily sufficient. Yes, in the end you can go one better in Full HD with an average of 10 percent in the sum of all games and sporadically with more than 15 percent in particularly suitable titles. However, the question quickly arises as to the real added value and what you really need if you have more than just Full HD in mind and a slightly weaker graphics card in your computer.
Because on the one hand, not all games always scale so perfectly with the cache advantage and the extra clock rate alone would not be the absolute panacea, because unfortunately you also pay for it in terms of power consumption. Well, a little. Power comes from fuel and so the Ryzen 7 9800X3D also suffers a little bit of the fate of all its other 9000-series contemporaries: you like to drink a little more than the oldies, even if you work a little faster by virtue of your youth. It’s a pure gaming CPU, which is why I’m splitting the article into two parts this time and putting everything about the workstation in the follow-up. Of course, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D (with limitations in multithreading) is also quite suitable for working, but we won’t be discussing that today at least.
And so this round goes very clearly to AMD again this time, because the Core Ultra 200 was far too easy a prey. AMD could have realized all this without any pressure and with better availability, there is no need to artificially create pressure on the buyer, because this CPU will certainly be bought even without such stunts. When the GeForce RTX 5090 is in the starting blocks after the turn of the year, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D will certainly be able to find a new sparring partner for exploring a possible CPU bottleneck. So at least my private expenditure was worth it, because that’s exactly the added value I was looking for in the lab. For combined work and gaming, I’d better wait for a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, but I’m not part of the actual Ryzen 7 9800X3D target group.
If, like me, you mainly play in Ultra HD or often enough with ray tracing including DLSS at WQHD level, you probably wouldn’t need this CPU if you already have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or 7950X3D. However, my son and his love of shooters and FPS are of a completely different opinion. That’s exactly why the performance booster is available today, because a purchase recommendation would be rather cynical at this time of empty shelves. But availability is there to improve. Let’s take a look. There’s still room for improvement. And if it’s the end of the year.
We bought the CPU ourselves this time. There was no direct or indirect influence or payment of an expense allowance.
- 1 - Introduction and technical data
- 2 - Heatspreader details and thermal paste
- 3 - Test setup and methods
- 4 - Fast overclocking and undervolting
- 5 - Gaming Performance HD Ready (1280 x 720 Pixels)
- 6 - Gaming Performance Full HD (1920 x 1080 Pixels)
- 7 - Gaming Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440 Pixels)
- 8 - Power consumption and efficiency
- 9 - Temperatures, summary and conclusion
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