The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Review: 96 MB of L3 3D V-Cache Designed For Gamers
by Gavin Bonshor on June 30, 2022 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- AMD
- DDR4
- AM4
- Ryzen
- V-Cache
- Ryzen 7 5800X3D
- Zen3
- 3D V-Cache
CPU Benchmark Performance: Legacy and Web
In order to gather data to compare with older benchmarks, we are still keeping a number of tests under our ‘legacy’ section. This includes all the former major versions of CineBench (R15, R11.5, R10) as well as x264 HD 3.0 and the first very naïve version of 3DPM v2.1. We won’t be transferring the data over from the old testing into Bench, otherwise, it would be populated with 200 CPUs with only one data point, so it will fill up as we test more CPUs like the others.
The other section here is our web tests.
We are using DDR4 memory at the following settings:
- DDR4-3200
Legacy
Looking at Ryzen 7 5800X3D's performance in our legacy section of our CPU test suite, it does seemingly lack behind the Intel 12th Gen Core series in terms of overall grunt. The most interesting element is that the discrepancy is clear to see between the clock speeds of the 5800X3D and the vanilla 5800X; the 5800X is slightly faster and is marginally better than the 5800X in compute-heavy tasks.
Web
Even in our web-based tests, the regular Ryzen 7 5800X outperforms the 5800X3D with 3D V-Cache quite consistently. This shows that the additional L3 cache has no bearing on performance in this area.
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Dark_wizzie - Wednesday, July 6, 2022 - link
I've been benchmarking Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, and it doesn't benefit a huge amount from cache. 12900k's the way to go. Very interesting. On other extreme, Fallout 4 benefits hugely from larger cache (50%).abufrejoval - Monday, July 11, 2022 - link
Buying a 5800X3D at near 5950X prices would be a bit painful for an IT professional like me: I'd always go the other direction (as I did before the 3D was available).But it was a no-brainer for my son, who only cares for having the best gaming experience that fits his budget.
He upgraded from a Kaby Lake i7-7700K with DDR3-2400 to the 3D on a Gigabyte X570S UD with DDR4-4000 for his RTX 3070 and wears a constant smile since.
Installation was a breeze, BIOS update easy (system even booted without it), XMP timings worked perfectly and RAM bandwidth is 55GB/s on Geekbench 4, best I ever measured. Windows 10 and near 100 games on 6 ports of SATA and 1 NVMe SSDs didn't even flinch at the new hardware.
For that point in time several weeks ago, it was quite simply the best gaming platform for a reasonable amount of money and a simple air-cooled system that runs super-cool and Noctua quiet when the GPU tiger sleeps on 2D or movies.
Yes, it will be outdated in a month or two, but that surely doesn't make in inadequate for some years (unless Microsoft pulls a Pluton stunt).
And maturity means more time for games.
I tend to spend more time on tinkering than gaming, but that's why having these choices is so great.
Gavin Bonshor - Friday, July 29, 2022 - link
Hi everyone, I've seen the comments about some of the game data and I've investigated it just now. I found the issue and I've updated the gaming graphs with the correct data.I have also updated the correct data to bench. I plan to re-bench the Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K gaming results this weekend, so expect them to be updated in this review and the subsequent reviews.
Apologies about the discrepancies, a genuine mistake where a tonne of data is concerned.
mcnabney - Tuesday, August 9, 2022 - link
Sorry to necro this thread, but with Zen4 coming I would be curious to see how 5800X3D performs against 7700X specific to gaming. Getting to choose cheaper AM4 motherboards, much cheaper DDR4-3600 RAM (vs DDR5-6000) is going to impact the price/performance balance.Will the 5800X3D be the chip for gamers to choose instead of Zen4 in Q4 2022?