So as we see it, you either go big with high-speed DDR5 when buying the 12900K or you might as well just opt for the more efficient and easier to cool 5800X3D. Of course, we'd love to compare these two across 30 or more games, and we're working on that right now to see beyond a shadow of a doubt which is the ultimate CPU for gamers. We recently compared the new AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Intel Core i9-12900K flagship head to head in 40 games and found that overall they offer a similar gaming experience. Of course, they traded blows,

Our Ryzen GPU scaling feature showed on average a 60% performance improvement for CPU limited gaming, with peak gains beyond 100%.

The Ryzen 7 7700X is again the better of the two CPUs, but by a comparatively smaller margin, in our V-Ray benchmark. Chromium Code Compile Chromium Code Compile Based on our evaluation of using AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X CPU for professional tools, you can expect good tool performance with a high-performance CPU cooler. Precision Boost Overdrive requires a compatible AMD Ryzen Threadripper, 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen processor, or Ryzen 5000 Series processor and a motherboard compatible with one or more of these processors. 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen processors including the Ryzen 3200G processor are not compatible with Precision Boost Overdrive. Because Precision Boost Overdrive enables operation of the processor outside of specifications and in excess of factory settings, use of the feature invalidates the AMD product warranty and may also void warranties offered by the system manufacturer or retailer. GD-135. We've already looked at the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in detail, from our day-one review to numerous comparisons with other high-end AMD and Intel processors, but still missing from all of that has been older Ryzen 5 parts, parts that many of you are still using.

Again a familiar situation with less CPU-intensive games; there’s not much of a difference of note between Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 7 5800X3D here. Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow of The Tomb Raider In Dota 2, the Ryzen Ryzen 7 5800X3D again beats the Ryzen 7 7700X, but the overall difference is, again, marginal. CS:GO CS:GO So conversely, if you're looking at performance beyond gaming, then the Core i5-13600K becomes the obvious choice thanks to vastly superior productivity performance. You could say that given AMD's weakness when it comes to productivity for this matchup, they need to make the 7600X combo cheaper, and if they can do that, then it will become more competitive overall. Now take this with a grain of salt – I’m not exactly testing apples to apples here since I didn’t have a 5800x to test against. That would show the true value of 3D v-Cache, as it would be the only variable. But I remember reading comparisons of the 5600x and 5800x and the results were nowhere near this drastic.

That also made it 10% faster than the 12900K, again when using the same memory. For maximum performance we paired the 5800X3D with DDR4-3800 memory and this pushed the average frame rate up to 161 fps, just a few frames shy of what the 12900K achieved with DDR5-6400.