Last year, when Intel released its desktop Alder Lake CPUs, it easily grabbed the gaming performance crown. The Golden Cove architecture of Alder Lake’s Performance cores is incredibly strong, and those processors outperform AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs in single-threaded performance.
AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs, which are anticipated to ship in Q3 of this year, will be the company’s official “answer” to Alder Lake, but in the meanwhile, it has a contender: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
When AMD revealed the chip at CES, many people were upset that the X3D chips would only be a single chip, rather than a series of them.
However, when you consider what the 3D V-cache affords the CPU, it makes a lot of sense. Increasing the L3 cache size reduces the frequency with which the processor must access main memory, which improves single-threaded efficiency by increasing CPU thread occupancy.
In other words, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D isn’t any quicker on a single thread than a conventional Ryzen 7 5800X—in fact, it’s somewhat slower owing to the lower clock rate, which, by the way, can’t be fixed by overclocking.
However, in real-world applications, the additional cache may certainly make a significant impact. We’ve previously seen this with AMD’s EPYC Milan-X CPUs, which outperform their non-stacked-die counterparts across a wide range of HPC and corporate applications.
Some scoffed at AMD pushing out a Ryzen 7 5800X with an additional 64MB of cache as a competitor to Intel’s dominant Core i9-12900KS, but they may have been misinformed.
The Peruvian hardware site XanxoGaming is preparing a review of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and unlike the other sites, they did not obtain their chip from AMD. That means they aren’t bound by any review embargoes, therefore they’ve opted to disclose benchmarks right away.
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We won’t keep you waiting: XanxoGaming’s tests, conducted in collaboration with the creator of the fantastic CapFrameX program, show the Ryzen 7 5800X3D easily defeating the Core i9-12900K and even taking a convincing victory over the hot-clocked Core i9-12900KS.
XanxoGaming obtained an average FPS score of 231 FPS for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in a Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark, whereas the Core i9(12900KS) came up with around 200.
We’d like to be thrilled about this finding, but there are a variety of reasons why we shouldn’t. To begin with, XanxoGaming did not execute all of the testings; the Intel side was evaluated by the CapFrameX developer. The two claim to have painstakingly matched settings, but it’s hard to know for sure.
There’s also the issue of the two systems not using the same graphics cards. The Ryzen system came with a strong RTX 3080 Ti, whilst the Intel machine came with an RTX 3090 Ti. Worse, the Ryzen PC had low-latency DDR4-3200 CL14 memory, but the Intel machine had rather slow DDR5-4800 CL40 RAM.
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