Temperatures and clock rates
The fact is that the new positioning of the 3D cache has definitely paid off, even if the CPU gets crisply hot under full load, such as Blender or Cinebench R23. Of course, PBO2 and the OC 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. Under alternating, lighter loads, such as AutoCAD with a lot of 2D content in the drawing area, it is usually around 55 °C. Only the short 3D animations cause the power consumption and thus also the waste heat to rise or fall abruptly. But it never exceeded 66 °C here either. In the gaming continuous 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 be tight.
The clock rate was also around 5.2 GHz at work, or 5.4 GHz with OC and UV, exactly where it was advertised, so everything fits.
Summary and conclusion
I already mentioned yesterday in the gaming test that you have to classify the Ryzen 7 9800X3D correctly for yourself in order to avoid a potential bad purchase. Whereby “bad buy” would be far too big a word, let’s call it expedient or even inexpedient. Because that’s exactly what it becomes if you try to use an 8-core mainly where many threads can really hurt. But – and this is the most important realization – you can now use the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in normal applications almost everywhere where the Ryzen 7 7800X3D still failed.
Yes, it is a CPU that holds its own in gaming in particular, but in higher resolutions and settings it runs into the same graphics card limit as its predecessor. On the other hand, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is finally also a safe bet in the normal working environment and is only worse than the Ryzen 7 9700X in exceptional cases. However, the question quickly arises as to the purpose of the hefty surcharge and what you really need if you have more than just gaming in Full HD in mind and also want to work with it, for example.
As with gaming, not every application benefits equally from the cache advantage and the extra clock speed alone would certainly not be a universally valid decision-making aid, because unfortunately you also pay more in terms of power consumption. But I would like to repeat it once again: In contrast to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, it is no longer a pure gaming CPU, even if the focus is of course on gaming. But it’s always good to know that there’s something else that a Ryzen 7 9800X3D can do quite quickly.
And so this second round also goes very clearly to AMD, although the Core Ultra 200 performs much better here and can also score points for efficiency. And at this point I would also like to point out that AMD could have realized all this without any pressure and with better availability, so there is no need to artificially create pressure on the buyer, because this CPU will certainly be bought even without such stunts. For combined work and gaming, however, I’m personally waiting for a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, as I’m not really part of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D target group, but rather the working population, where time is often money. If videos are finished faster and animations take less time, then I’m happy.
If, like me, you mainly work and then play in Ultra HD in the evening, often enough with ray tracing including DLSS at WQHD level, you could probably still manage with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. But of course, you always want the best of the best and speed has never hurt. From this perspective, however, this is all complaining at the very highest level. Everything can, but doesn’t have to be. And yes, it costs. Money and nerves in procurement.
We bought the CPU ourselves this time. There was no direct or indirect influence or payment of an expense allowance.
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